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Booming Tunes

Happy Holidays to all the Goners. This afternoons quandry: How do you reduce the bass output of a monitor speaker? My current monitor rolls at about 65-70 hz My room has a boom at about 60 hz (11x14) All the better moniters have extention to 40s to 50s. I have subs but I don't want to EQ the monitors with hi pass. The speakers are placed according to Cardas and have min boundry reinforcement and the speaker cable is as small as I think I can get Also put a sock on the port but that leaned out the mids too much. Thanks in advance for your suggestions. And may powdered sugar fall gently upon your ears this evening!
lewhite

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martykl
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Bassbusters (trashcans) are designed for this issue, but IME bassbusters rapidly lose effectiveness as you drop below 80ish hz.

So, you can either:

1) Find an active low cut that you can live with for your main speakers (I use an NHT x-2 instead of the bare bones filter in the SMS1) and use the SMS1 to clean up the issue via subs. This is what I do.

or

2) Find satellite style main speakers that are intended for use with a subwoofer. These have little to no meaningful in-room bass response (and no compensating mid-bass hump) below 80-90hz. You can cross this type of speaker to a sub at a much higher in frequency without actively low-cutting it. (Sunfire Cinema Ribbon Monitors would be one example, I'm sure that there are others.) This way you can cross to your subs using only the subwoofer hi-cut function in the SMS1 and maintain a "pure" main signal path.

Good Luck

Marty
martykl
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BTW, the Sunfire CRMs are more than decent speakers at their price point, but I suspect that they might be a difficult load for a 300b amp.

Marty
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