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.

erik_squires

@mcroth

Yeah, I’d say 60% of the back wall, 15% of the front wall is open to something. At least 50% of the right wall and 30% of the left wall are open as well, so I definitely have several gotcha’s to deal with.
For now, I have a portable divider covered with a quilt covering over half of the biggest opening between the family room and the living room. When we save up some money, that pass through is going to be filled in,

Without bass, you're in a lot of treble.

Yes, we is...and with that pun, I'll hit the parking brake with this:

Bacons' great except during sex.....you end up biting the wrong things.
...and the grease is too salty...

Sorry, Erik.....

Let's get back to bass fishing....

About Bass ...

I had 20 hertz bass in my headphone...I hear bass through my body because of skelton resonance ... Unlike any other headphones i listened too...

I had clear 50 hertz with my small speakers with no inflow of bass in the mid frequencies... Very good bass ...But no deep bass ...

I think the balance between frequencies matter as much than going from 50 hertz to 20 but with no good balance...

I live very well with my small speakers...

For sure it will be better with a bigger set of speakers or with sub.... But i listen in nearfield and i cannot put bigger speakers on my desk nor wish to accomodate a well coupled sub...

I felt no frustration in this situation because the speakers are so well balanced and good on all others acoustics factors...

But for sure my AKG K340 beat my speakers at the end... but i dont felt any evident defect when i listened my speakers ( i use them more than the headphone which are reserved for sacred listening ceremonies.)

My key word is then more "balance"  than  "bass" ...

 

 

 
 

 

 

Utter bollocks. In my large open listening room there's very little for bass to reflect on therefore little bass and high end fine. 2 subs solved it.