You don't lack bass, you have too much treble
One of the biggest surprises in audio and acoustics is how damping a room with treatments makes small speakers sound so much bigger. Yes, you get a broader, deeper soundstage but you also seem to get a lot more bass, more power, more extension!!
What's going on?
What happened is your room was too bright. The overall balance was too heavy on the mid and treble so as a result your systems balance was off.
For this reason I often suggest before A'goners start chasing bigger and bigger speakers, that they think about the room first, add damping and diffusion and then go back to thinking about the bass.
Not saying you don't need a bigger speaker, but that some rooms may never have a big enough speaker in them due to the natural reflective properties.
Thanks for the reply. The speakers have maybe 1° of toe-in. I will make it zero. The floor behind them is carpeted, but I will definitely try more absorption behind them. Behind me is almost no wall at al. There are two door size walkways and a pass through from the kitchen. And, I doubt very seriously that the wife will let me put any treatments on the ceiling, but I can always ask. 😁 |
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@curiousjim Perhaps you just don’t like those instruments which produce sound at those frequencies. It’s not your system. I don’t like trumpets live or recorded and if I built a system to make the trumpet tolerable to me, it would be a misrepresentation of what a trumpet sounds like, along with every other instrument or vocal. For some reason, there are frequencies that don’t appeal to me (live or recorded) and I don’t like song that include those frequencies or have alot of energy at those frequencies. Do you enjoy those instruments/vocal live? Does the trumpet bother you if it is at 75 db? Beyond that I would look at different speakers or dampening in front of the tweeter.
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@curiousjim Well those are the non-speaker reasons for what you are hearing. The other possible reasons are amplifier distortion or the speaker is compressing. That is, for whatever reason you are reaching the limit of the driver motion, and that seems odd at such low volumes. |
