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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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lewhite OP
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Sorry I havn't been around but the dog died. She was my tweeter reviewer. Thanks Marty and Duke. After reviewing my speaker position I found that they were 54 inches away from the back wall instead of 64 inches. I moved them to 62 inches because that moved them 8 inches closer to the listening position But guess what that did to the 'you are there instead of they are here' illution. More immeadacy and less room acoustics. It's also greatly reduced the 60 hZ boom to manageable levels. Now I'm going to try overlaping and invert and see where that leads. But I think port mods hold a lot of promise. I'll let the SMS1 clean up the remaining mess

Thanks all and may powdered sugar fall gently upon your ears tonight!
lewhite OP
156 posts
 
I failed to mention that I do have a velodyne SMS1 and a 300b amp. The amp doesn't do the lower frequencys as well as the sub so the idea is to cross as high as possible and let the SMS handle the 63hz node but most of the good monitors that a set can drive won't get out of the way. I have 'some' room treatments but don't want a room full of trash cans full foam and hair.
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