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Changed Speaker Placement NOW BOOMY

Hello,

I have a bit of a problem. We bought new furniture for the living room where the stereo is and after replacing a couch, adding a chair and moving the speakers and audio rack down about 2 feet towards the corner and the speakers which where about 3 feet off the wall before are now about 14" off the wall.

I now have this unnatural sub boom and since I am using thiel 1.6 which have very little if any sub freq I can only assume its the room.

I understand that moving stuff around can do this, but its such a big change and I really dont have much room to play with.

Are there any cheap cheap cheap ways of fixing boom bass in a room.

The room is 12' X 26' with 9' ceilings.

If you look at my system pix the stereo is sorta in the same place with minor adjustments.

Any help would be super awesome.
thegoldenear

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larryi
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I would also endorse use of the Sumiko method. When using this method, it is surprising how much bass response changes with the smallest of placement change. That means that one could find a spot that at least minimizes boom while staying reasonably close to the current placement.

If placement change does not help, use of some form of equalization is the most realistic approach to removing a boom. At low frequencies, room treatments (bass traps) must be pretty big in order to be effective -- unless one is allowed to take up a lot of space in the corner, this is not that practical in situations where room decor and space utilization are a big issue.
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