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window near my listening point and excessive bass

Hello friends. I have a very small room like 3m(10feet)x2.4m(8feet). I have 12L bookshelf Quads, and Audio refinement amp. My problem is the high level(and boomy) of bass. My speakers are placed at the most desirable place and my listening point is nearly optimum(i dont have many choices since the room is small). One thing that leaves a question mark is that about half area of the wall behind my listening point is window(plain glass:)). There is about 1m between window and my listening point(back of my head).
So is the window creating my bass problem or i have a problem that can not be cured? Also i want to add that wall behind my speakers is completely naked(no damping). Where should i damp? the naked wall behind my speakers or the window behind me or both to decrease bass?

thank you.
parkcaka

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clbeanz
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Your room is almost a cube,so a lot of bass energy is piling on.Small cube like rooms will have lot of standing wave issues.Not good but can be worked with.Since you are not trying to shoe-horn huge towers in there.Try this 1st:
Open the rooms door,window,and closet fully then listen again.
Did it drop the bass level any?If so,did the change make the upper frequencies clearer/more open/more intelligible?
I under stand with maximum dimension being ten feet you are going to be up against one wall and the speakers against the other.But can you move speakers out from wall behind them any?Can you also move your listening seat away from back wall any?If the ceiling is 8'get your ear height low as possible so your definitely closer to floor than ceiling. Average listening height throws you between the ceiling and floors reflected energy.
If any of that helped, I would recommend starting with 2 basstraps in the corners behind each speaker.This should suck up some of that bass energy revealing the mids and highs which you can treat separately as needed.I am not a proffesional but just made some decent diy basstraps which helped in this regard.
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