When you say drywall all around, does that inlcude the ceiling? If it doesn't and the ceiling is open joists that may be your problem. If the ceiling is finished and you can't remove the carpeting your best solution might be near field listening. It's also possible that you have a very long reverberation time and that's muddying the sound to the point it sounds dead but it's not. This would be a good post for Rives to step in and provide some ideas.
How to Liven up a room
I got an accoustics problem, and im looking for a possible simple solution
Im running a denon 3803, with KEF Q1 bookshelf speakers.
Upstairs, it sounds livly and energetic, however, there is not much room for it upstairs and i now have it all in the basement where im working on a theater. Im renting this house and looking to buy a new one, so i dont want to go overboard with accoustical tweaks.
the basement is very dead sounding. My denon and KEFs sound crisp, clear, but they just dont have the same livly feel to them. they sound like they lost something.
My listening room is L shaped, but basically, it is 11.5ft by 26ft, and it just sucks the livelyness from my music.
its a typical budget finished basement. Drywall all around, carpet, etc etc. Im renting so i cannot rip it all out and do it myself which i would preffer.
Does anybody have any inexpencive tweaks i might want to try?
Its not the speaker positioning, the stands are not very good but i dont think that is the problem. Im pretty sure the basement is just accoustically dead.
Im thinking i need to reflect the accoustics a little better. thoughts?
Im running a denon 3803, with KEF Q1 bookshelf speakers.
Upstairs, it sounds livly and energetic, however, there is not much room for it upstairs and i now have it all in the basement where im working on a theater. Im renting this house and looking to buy a new one, so i dont want to go overboard with accoustical tweaks.
the basement is very dead sounding. My denon and KEFs sound crisp, clear, but they just dont have the same livly feel to them. they sound like they lost something.
My listening room is L shaped, but basically, it is 11.5ft by 26ft, and it just sucks the livelyness from my music.
its a typical budget finished basement. Drywall all around, carpet, etc etc. Im renting so i cannot rip it all out and do it myself which i would preffer.
Does anybody have any inexpencive tweaks i might want to try?
Its not the speaker positioning, the stands are not very good but i dont think that is the problem. Im pretty sure the basement is just accoustically dead.
Im thinking i need to reflect the accoustics a little better. thoughts?