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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a) Position the monitors about 56 inches out from the wall behind them. The energy bouncing off the wall will arrive out-of-phase with the direct sound at about 60 Hz, hopefully causing a zig where your modal room interaction is causing a zag.

b) Place your subs as close as possible to the monitors, allow some overlap in the crossover region, and adjust your subs so that they are 180 degrees out-of-phase with your monitors in the crossover region. Find this setting by placing the monitor on the floor woofer-to-woofer with the sub, and playing test tones. The deepest null is the correct setting.

c) Reduce the output from your monitors' ports by stuffing fiberfill or open-cell foam into the port. Open-cell foam is foam that you can breathe through.

d) Reduce the tuning frequency of your monitors by inserting a somewhat longer (if possible), smaller-diameter plastic tube into the port. Wrap at least one end of the tube with enough electrical tape to give a reasonably secure friction fit.

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