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Changed Speaker Placement NOW BOOMY

Hello,

I have a bit of a problem. We bought new furniture for the living room where the stereo is and after replacing a couch, adding a chair and moving the speakers and audio rack down about 2 feet towards the corner and the speakers which where about 3 feet off the wall before are now about 14" off the wall.

I now have this unnatural sub boom and since I am using thiel 1.6 which have very little if any sub freq I can only assume its the room.

I understand that moving stuff around can do this, but its such a big change and I really dont have much room to play with.

Are there any cheap cheap cheap ways of fixing boom bass in a room.

The room is 12' X 26' with 9' ceilings.

If you look at my system pix the stereo is sorta in the same place with minor adjustments.

Any help would be super awesome.
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timlub
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Hello Golden Ear,
I would try a couple of things, I still believe that it is most likely the room. 1st, take Tish's advice and check to see if you have your positive and negatives reversed. I'm sure that you don't have 1 reversed because you are pulling a center image. These are probably ok, Next, Someone up the chain recommended that you put a pillow in a corner. Take the corner that you have moved your system toward and stack pillows as high as you can. If this removes you bass issue, let me know and I will help you tailor an inexpensive bass trap. How far are you from the nearest side wall and are your speakers towed and are you useing the golden triangle rule? These all matter.
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kijanki
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12' distance should give resonance at 48Hz while 26' span amplifies 22Hz

F= 1150/(2xd) where 2xd is twice the distance (wave has to travel forth and back to add in the same phase).
timlub
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Kijanki, in wave length yes, but the corners are acting like a horn load and things around the corner can change or break the wavelength. We need to kill the frequencies from being radiated from the horn. Tim
timlub
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By the way, I cannot imagine your chair being hard enough to reflect bass wave, but for now, just put a blanket over it and see what happens. Tim
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thegoldenear OP
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Timlub - the nearest side wall is 6 feet away and yes they are towed in a tiny bit. As for the golden triangle rule, maybe a slight variation of it.

Thanks.
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