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Need to tame bass

Hi, I have a pair of Von Schweikert vr3, love everything about them,just need to tighten up bass.My room is just a little to small,that adds to the problem.Right now I,m using a 8 ft. pair of monster m.75s,would like a speaker cable to tighten things up.Equiment I have: Audio Research LS3 pre., Forte Audio model 5 power amp,h.k.710 as transport,MSB DAC with p 1000 power base,audioquest coral and vampire interconnets.Right now I am looking to buy a pair of transparent plus interconnects that should help quite abit.Your help would be appreciated. P.S. I listin to jazz most of the time. Thanks
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avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
I remember back 15 years ago a friend had these big psb's---The bass was intolerable.Whithout doing anything else but a wire switch-- the boom-boom went bye-bye.--The cable was RSC,reference/master.---
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philjolet
2,306 posts
 
I recently ran dedicated lines to my stereo and could not believe the amount of improvement especially at cleaning up the bass and upper bass. By clean up I mean a fair amount of grunge was removed and what remained was articulate and clean bass. It is the kind of improvement I could not find no matter what I did with speaker placement or equipment replacement. If you have not done so I stongly recommend you try the dedicated lines.
aroc
760 posts
 
Agreed RE: speaker and listening chair replacement. That was how I got my bass response dialed in for all the better. It was boomy and sloppy before. My trick was to get my listening chair off of the back wall. With the chair out into the room somewhat it evened out the bass. I no longer had the suckout at 70-80hz and the boom at 40-50 and 120hz. Do not use cables as a tone control in this application.

You might also investigate spikes or brass cone footers for you speakers and especially source components! Again, the bass will improve!

Aaron
bbaxley2
141 posts
 
go with some siver in your interconnects and speaker wires i have about the same system you have .put some siver interconnect between your pre and amp..and see what happens .
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