Speaker Placement or Room


Speakers are Vandersteen 3A's. I've got them set up according to the placement instructions that came with the manual. In general they sound really good.

I've just taken some readings with my Radio Shack spl meter and the Rives test disc, using the frequencies that are corrected for that device. I know no room is perfect and a flat response will not happen, but for the most part everything is "relatively flat". However, I'm getting a huge dip between 80hz & 100hz. 80hz is -23db, 100hz is -12 db and 125hz is -15db. 160hz is back to flat.

Is this an issue of speaker placement or is it the room? If it's the room, where do I begin to minimize these dips?

Thanks.
ecruz

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Newbee-
While I did know to check my seating position, I completely forgot to. I'll have to play around some more later.

Why would pink noise be any different than the constant tone?

Thanks
How does what sound?

BTW, I did some more tests, moving the db meter in front of & behind my seating position. By moving the meter less than 18 inches forward, the 80hz response increased by 16db! Thanks for reminding me to check that Newbee.