The biggest problem are when reflected bass hits the generated bass from the speakers and cancels itself out, creating a bass NULL. I'm going to disagree. I've measured 20 dB peaks as well in a modest living room. That peak prevented the subwoofer level from coming up. Nulls, if narrow enough, may not even be heard, peaks though are ugly to listen to. |
I recently treated my room with GIK products. All my panels are called bass traps but they are used for multiple things. I have 3 first reflection point panels. Bass traps on the front wall sitting on the floor and diffusion panels on the back wall. I had previously bought some corner foam traps from Amazon but not sure how effective they are. I feel this was a very nice improvement in bass and soundstaging. A question I have had though is that I have a Type A decibel meter but it only seems to pick up mid range accurately. Do I need a Type A/C? |
In the house we recently sold, my "man cave" was a 24’x26’ room. I got the system with the main speakers "dialed in", sounding awesome. Then when I added my sub woofers I discovered that the room had terrible acoustics in the bass region; regardless of the bass line in the music, the room added one loud bass tone. I eventually purchased a " miniDSP UMIK-1 USB Measurement Calibrated Microphone" (I found it on Amazon), a mike stand and the REW (Room EQ Wizard) software ( https://www.roomeqwizard.com/ ), which guided me to purchase and position what eventually turned out to be 10 bass traps, to mostly control the errant bass response from the room. I probably could have used two more traps, but the love of my life began asking if I was headed for my "padded cell" when going for my nightly listening session. |
