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window near my listening point and excessive bass

Hello friends. I have a very small room like 3m(10feet)x2.4m(8feet). I have 12L bookshelf Quads, and Audio refinement amp. My problem is the high level(and boomy) of bass. My speakers are placed at the most desirable place and my listening point is nearly optimum(i dont have many choices since the room is small). One thing that leaves a question mark is that about half area of the wall behind my listening point is window(plain glass:)). There is about 1m between window and my listening point(back of my head).
So is the window creating my bass problem or i have a problem that can not be cured? Also i want to add that wall behind my speakers is completely naked(no damping). Where should i damp? the naked wall behind my speakers or the window behind me or both to decrease bass?

thank you.
parkcaka
newbee
4,794 posts
 
Your bass problem could not be caused by your window and damping behind your listening position is not going to help with the bass (upper mids and highs, yes). Your bass problems are likely inherrent in the size of the room, but could be aggrevated by the speaker placement or the listening position placement. If you can't change their placement (which may or may not help if its the room) then your only pratical solution is am equalizer which you can put into the tape loop of your preamp. This is a very small room, I wouldn't expect too much from it. If you can move stuff about, you might want to get a Radio Shack sound level meter and a test disc to measure bass response as you move things 'til you find the best position..
mt10425
1,138 posts
 
Try putting some oversized pillows or blankets on the floor in the corners and see if you hear any difference with the bass. This might lead you to purchase official bass traps (or not if they work and you can live with them). I use a body pillow behind my couch which is almost up against the back wall and another in one corner.
clbeanz
192 posts
 
Your room is almost a cube,so a lot of bass energy is piling on.Small cube like rooms will have lot of standing wave issues.Not good but can be worked with.Since you are not trying to shoe-horn huge towers in there.Try this 1st:
Open the rooms door,window,and closet fully then listen again.
Did it drop the bass level any?If so,did the change make the upper frequencies clearer/more open/more intelligible?
I under stand with maximum dimension being ten feet you are going to be up against one wall and the speakers against the other.But can you move speakers out from wall behind them any?Can you also move your listening seat away from back wall any?If the ceiling is 8'get your ear height low as possible so your definitely closer to floor than ceiling. Average listening height throws you between the ceiling and floors reflected energy.
If any of that helped, I would recommend starting with 2 basstraps in the corners behind each speaker.This should suck up some of that bass energy revealing the mids and highs which you can treat separately as needed.I am not a proffesional but just made some decent diy basstraps which helped in this regard.
perfectimage
406 posts
 
If your sub is foward firing put it on a six inch stand. It will help clear it up quite a bit.
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