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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Timlub u me and most of this community I suppose lol. I really appreciate everyone trying to help. I will take some of the thoughts and act on them tonight and report back with new pix.
LOL, ok I just moved the thiels about 6 more inches into the room and moved the chair toward the speakers just a little more than 1 foot off the wall and it sounds very pleasing.

I don't like the fact i have to move the chair but i guess it will do for now.

in fact the little extra bass response is nice. "Color Rit" has a nice little punch.

I have to run some more test before I say that my problem is fixed.
What gets me this whole time is for years I just wanted a nice leather club chair to relax in and finally go it and set up the equipment nicely with wife's approval :) and now it sounds like crap.

I will make a before and after image and post it.

And I just ordered a new phono stage so if i turn around now and tell the wife I need to spend 100's of dollars on treatment me and the stereo will be on the front porch.
Timlub, last night I did pull them out as far as 3 1/2 feet and still there is this center image of a sloppy sounding bass. Is it possible that I would need to put some type of absorption next to where I am sitting because I even feel the inside of the new club chair vibrate?
Racamuti LOL funny you mentioned that woke up at 10 to 3 in the am ran down and checked that. Its good :)
Timlub - the nearest side wall is 6 feet away and yes they are towed in a tiny bit. As for the golden triangle rule, maybe a slight variation of it.

Thanks.
Timlub and you install LED lighting and put on a light show or make it as WAF as possible. I sent my wife an email asking if she still has that body pill she used when preggo. Her answer was "WHY!!!!! in fact I dont even wanna know"

LOL
I will upload new pix of the room now that I see what i have posted it is changed a lot it may shed some light on the problem if you all saw new pix.

I will upload tonight and also try the pillow experiment.
LOL yes thx Timlub, if I even attempted to bring anything remotely close to audio related into this house. I would seriously get my butt kicked let alone building a DYI panel. If I was alone forget it I would have a dedicated room, but that's not happening now.

We all have a problem. We are Audiophiles no matter the size or price of our system music speaks to use differently than most.

Thanks for all the help everyone.
If I realize that panels are needed after a few days of listening then I will outsource a project to Timlub. If he could build panels that look streamline and also maybe act like a light source then maybe we are in business.

I saw in Home Depot last night these awesome looking LED high hat bulbs, I was thinking today after Timlub mentioned panel how could I make these thing disappear in the room then i thought maybe I can have one of those facing up out of the panel or column for that matter, behind the speakers. That would look sweet.
LOL,I am going to spend the weekend listening to all types of music and see where I am on Sunday. I printed out the instructions on the Sumiko Method and I will see what happens there.
Oh and I order a Project Tube Box II so that's the other reason why I cant exactly mention acoustic treatment, maybe by the holidays I can.

If I get kicked out does anyone have any vacancy's?