help with a sometimes boomy sounding room..


Well, here's my low down.

my listening room size: 10'6" wide x 13'length x 7'2" Hi.

my gear: Classe CA-201 w/ reference XLO power cord,
Classe CP-60 w/ Classe reference power cord, MIT Z center w/ Z cord, Sony SCD-1 w/ cardas gold reference power cord,
Monitor Audio GR(gold reference)'20's
MIT MI-350 reference balanced 1 meter from SCD-1 to CP-60,
transparent balanced musinlink-plus 1 meter from CP-60 to CA-201, 10' transparent bi-wire musiclink-plus speaker cables.
I have acoustic treatments on (both) back 10'6" walls , also have treatment behind listening chair at ear level, treatments centered on 13' walls, floor is carpeted with 3/4" padding.

The boomyness on seems to exist during certain songs with heavy bass tracks..., have not had any boomyness when playing SACD's...

The monitor audio's have a great soundstage, good depth and image great.

The speakers are 33.5" off the back wall and 16".5" off the side walls.

OK, tha't's it. Any thoughts.....for improvement?

thank you so much for the long read!
campylver

Showing 1 response by audiofile9

The room is indeed rather small, but there are some tricks that can help. Firstly, acoustic treatments will probably not help the bass, unless they are very large "bass traps". What will help, as Tacs has suggested, is speaker placement and listener placement. The best rule I have found to bass response is PRIME NUMBERS, kind of. Every pertinent dimension should be as unrelated to another as possible. I see for example, that your speakers are almost exactly twice as far from the back was as they are from the side wall. This even multiple means that specific frequencies will be doubly mangled by the two dimensions. But if the two distances were less related, each dimension would mangle a slightly different frequency, hopefully evening out to some extent.

Lastly, boomy bass in a cd player can sometimes be reduced by using Cones under the player, or some other form of vibration tweaking that couples the player more tightly to the rack.