@sunshdw the room is 15' 2" wide x 13' 9" deep with a 9' 8" ceiling. Right side of room is open to kitchen. Left side has a wall.
The speakers are Tyler Acoustics Highland H3.5
Shouldn't This Sound Boomy?
I have recently purchased a mic and I’m running REW to test my room response. These are the resulting charts:
I hear nice tight bass when I play music. I hear a big improvement over my previous speakers. The mid range and treble sound great and again the bass sounds articulate and tight. I would think this would be boomy and muddled. Unfortunately, I did not have the ability to test my previous speakers. The room is treated with GIK panels, but I have no bass traps in the corners due to the spouse approval factor. Am I a horrible listener that can’t hear this, or am I missing something else?
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@sunshdw I have been impressed by how much better the speakers sound in comparison to my Focal Aria 936s. I was really surprised by the bass results on the waterfall graph. I don’t hear anything objectionable. That’s why I posted this, to see if I’m missing something when interpreting the chart or if I’m just not good at hearing problems in my system. Maybe someone will have an explanation of why the graph can look this way and I am still loving the sound. The bass from bass guitars sounds really nice. The only time I get anything resembling objectionable is when I listen to Welcome to the Machine by Pink Floyd or Russia on Ice by Porcupine Tree. Those songs rumble the house and all of the glasses in the china cabinet. I don't think I can do anything more with the room, because my wife won't have it. She has allowed GIK panels already and I'll have to be happy with what I have. I may try to equalize in the future, but for now I'm happy with the sound I'm getting. |
By smooth I mean that your bass decays more or less evenly. You don't have some bass notes finish quickly and some late. Looking again at the overall response you really need an EQ or Roon. Clip that 45Hz peak. Use one shelving filter to flatten from 20 to 60 and another to boost everything below 100 Hz to about 4 dB above the rest. |
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