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How to Liven up a room

I got an accoustics problem, and im looking for a possible simple solution

Im running a denon 3803, with KEF Q1 bookshelf speakers.

Upstairs, it sounds livly and energetic, however, there is not much room for it upstairs and i now have it all in the basement where im working on a theater. Im renting this house and looking to buy a new one, so i dont want to go overboard with accoustical tweaks.

the basement is very dead sounding. My denon and KEFs sound crisp, clear, but they just dont have the same livly feel to them. they sound like they lost something.

My listening room is L shaped, but basically, it is 11.5ft by 26ft, and it just sucks the livelyness from my music.

its a typical budget finished basement. Drywall all around, carpet, etc etc. Im renting so i cannot rip it all out and do it myself which i would preffer.

Does anybody have any inexpencive tweaks i might want to try?
Its not the speaker positioning, the stands are not very good but i dont think that is the problem. Im pretty sure the basement is just accoustically dead.

Im thinking i need to reflect the accoustics a little better. thoughts?
slappy

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tsouthworth
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Probably suspended ceiling too, with the fiberboard type panels? Those are sound suckers...

Can you try listening to your speakers near-field, like 5-6' away from your listening chair, also away from the side walls?

Or how about forgetting to liven up the room and play some Bob Marley:
http://www.bobmarley.com/songs/songs.cgi?lively

Yeah, bad joke, but I'm not sorry!

Good luck - most of us have the opposite problem.
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