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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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curiousjim
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@baclagg 

Other than that one peak in the 40+ range, yout graphs look pretty good. Question, are your speakers rear ported? My KEF’s have 2 rear ports and a couple of different “Tuned” inserts to change the bass characteristics. Back in history, I used small sponges and placed them at different spots in the ports to adjust the bass.

Either way, a MiniDSP should help a lot.

All the best. 

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larry5729
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I may have missed something, but describe your sound system.  There are so many knowledgeable people in this discussion group.

bobpyle
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@mijostyn 

In response to:

To give you the feel of a live performance you want you bass up 5 to 10 dB between 20 and 30 Hz.

IMHO, most live performances, especially in rock, electronica and related genres, do not deploy sound engineers that present a realistic sound balance these days. Bass is overweight, often not tight, and consequently the overall sound is poor, sometimes  atrocious. General audiences seem to like the "thump in your chest" bass sound/feeling. However, for home listening it can be very tiresome and disappointing after the initial wow moment has passed.

Thank you,

BP

 

bobpyle
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Had a second look at the graphs and was looking to see if the output is dB(A) weighted? Doesn't look like it. Maybe you can confirm and if not, run the same methodology using the A weighted algorithm. I would be interested to see what these graphs look like.

Kind regards,

BP

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mijostyn
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@bobpyle , you need to attend smaller venues like the Blue Note in NYC and The Regata Bar in Boston. Rock concerts are Mono PA sound are worthless for evaluating home system. Fortunately, most live recordings are taken off the sound board and mixed like any other recording.

Lifelike sounding bass is lifelike whether you like it or not. If you don't like it you do not belong here. I suggest you visit a Bose Forum actually that is not fair to Bose. You should find a forum that talks about computer speakers. Those do not have much bass. Just your speed.

 

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