Shouldn't This Sound Boomy?

@bobpyle ,the Q5s are a great speaker. Magico is perhaps my favorite dynamic speaker manufacturer. The Q series subwoofers are the best commercial subwoofers available sonically just way too big for my situation. They need to design smaller versions for use in multiples. 

Tuning a system to the taste of the individual is the final step in setting up a system.  Measuring the system like @baclagg has done is the first step. Getting the system flat and balanced with room treatment and digital signal processing is the middle step. Because I handle it this way I can tell you exactly what I want to hear and why. You may want to hear something different. OK, what? Can anyone here draw me the amplitude response of a system tuned to their taste? How many here know exactly what their system is doing? Most people just make assumptions. They do not measure. Consequently there is no way they can optimize the performance of their systems. Many add silly "tweaks" in a vain attempt at improving performance wasting the money they could have spent on a good measurement microphone and computer program.  

When I look at that graph, boomy does not come to mind but I wonder if over time you will start to feel like the sound lacks life or sounds a bit muffled. It looks like there is a big difference between the bass decay and the mid/high decay even though the response curve is pretty smooth.

If you do start feeling that way then maybe some bass traps would help, and otherwise, just enjoy it!

@mijostyn 

Thank you for the further information, in which you introduce how you tune a system from a measurement perspective.

I tune my system and everything that influences the sound that I have control of, from a listening experience perspective. 

You and I approach the subject using different methods and, if it works for either, both (all) of us, then who is to say which method is right or wrong, or more right / more wrong? But, we should be careful when advising forum posters what to do. Our advice may not be appropriate for their needs. At best, we can only generalise.

I have spent almost 50 years getting my audio replay to sound in a way that I believe delivers a palpable, entertaining sound, with presence. I have found that measuring the audible spectrum, cannot help me with the all important spatial information, nor can it help with the individual listener's perception of sound. I have also found that there is an inextricable trade off between dynamics and musicality. The best we can hope for here is a compromise. These subjectives are some of the issues that make our hobby such fun, can result in frustration, and do help to keep the hifi industry alive. This, or any other forum, is unable to allow us to debate the subject without introducing misunderstanding of each other's thinking via. the narrative. So, I respect your opinion and, I trust you will understand mine. More of my thoughts can be found  (if you can obtain a copy) in HIFI Critic Vol 12 / No1 on p42-44 in an article called Tuned To Perception. Perhaps you will find it interesting?   

Kind regards,

BP

When looking at response, 5dB/division please.

Bass looks okay. I would tame that one peak.

The dropout at 2K is a far bigger problem. It’s 10db. That is very audible. I would prefer more slope at high frequencies.

You said you had panels. You may have too many of them may work over a narrow frequency band. Fully carpeted?

@larry5729 the system is a Hegel H390 integrated amp and an Audiolabs 6000 CDT Transport using the Hegel's internal DAC. The speakers are Tyler Acoustics Highland H3.5s rear ported three way speakers. The room is treated with 4" diffuser panels on wall behind the listening position and a 2' x 4' x 4" bass absorber behind each speaker and a 2' x 4' x 4" diffuser panel on each side of the speakers. I have a stack of rockwool panels centered behind the listening position at the floor.