How to damper booming bass...


Other than turning loudness off, is there any way to lessen booming bass?  Maybe stuffing up the ports in the back of the speakers?  What do you think?

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Showing 1 response by eganmedia

First google "Room Mode Calculator"  Plug in your rooms dimensions.  See where the problem frequencies are and where they are prone to be most audible.

Check that with real world listening tests using a cheap measurement microphone and free Room EQ Wizard software.  If it's confirmed there are two options: first and cheapest is to buy some kind of DSP room correction EQ hardware/ software device that will compensate for anomalies of the speaker/ room system at the listening position by altering what the speakers reproduce.  The second way is to treat the room with targeted absorption and diffusion to break up, disperse, and dissipate the problem frequencies where they are amplified/ cancelled out in the room caused by boundary interference.  If the second method is chosen and implemented properly it will increase the listening quality of the whole room.  An EQ solution can only fix the spot where it is measured.  Moving the measurement spot around the room *may* be able to correct some problems in other places, but unless those problems are in a different frequency band you'll be mucking up the correction at the initial location.

There is also a possibility that adding subwoofers (plural) can add energy where it is low and provide phase cancellation where it is high.  I've only ever used multiple subs to add more bass to a room but I have read about strategic cancellation as well.  While the idea of adding bass to reduce bass seems counterintuitive, it can be done. I would be inclined to hire a profession in any case.