Shouldn't This Sound Boomy?
I have recently purchased a mic and I’m running REW to test my room response. These are the resulting charts:
I hear nice tight bass when I play music. I hear a big improvement over my previous speakers. The mid range and treble sound great and again the bass sounds articulate and tight. I would think this would be boomy and muddled. Unfortunately, I did not have the ability to test my previous speakers. The room is treated with GIK panels, but I have no bass traps in the corners due to the spouse approval factor. Am I a horrible listener that can’t hear this, or am I missing something else?
@mijostyn the graphs above were from the listening position. The mic was in the same place my head would be in. I did run a sweep on each speaker individually at the same distance and height and volume. Here was the resulting graph, they look pretty close until you get below 20Hz. The red line is the right speaker which has no side wall. The green line is the left and it is two feet from a side wall. They are equal distant from the front wall.
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@sunshdw the room is 15' 2" wide x 13' 9" deep with a 9' 8" ceiling. Right side of room is open to kitchen. Left side has a wall. The speakers are Tyler Acoustics Highland H3.5 |
@sunshdw I have been impressed by how much better the speakers sound in comparison to my Focal Aria 936s. I was really surprised by the bass results on the waterfall graph. I don’t hear anything objectionable. That’s why I posted this, to see if I’m missing something when interpreting the chart or if I’m just not good at hearing problems in my system. Maybe someone will have an explanation of why the graph can look this way and I am still loving the sound. The bass from bass guitars sounds really nice. The only time I get anything resembling objectionable is when I listen to Welcome to the Machine by Pink Floyd or Russia on Ice by Porcupine Tree. Those songs rumble the house and all of the glasses in the china cabinet. I don't think I can do anything more with the room, because my wife won't have it. She has allowed GIK panels already and I'll have to be happy with what I have. I may try to equalize in the future, but for now I'm happy with the sound I'm getting. |
