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followup, boomy-spkrs-old-wood-floor post

Hi
Just to follow up on this post from a few months back called "boomy speakers, old wood flooring : answer ?"
The partial solution, for now, seems to have been in changing the woofer height from the floor, aided and abetted by a stiffer, stronger set of stands.

So speakers still in roughly the same room position, room furnishings the same, but cabinets up about five inches-- from about 5.5" to 10.5 --on more-rigid stands (a sound-anchor type heavy steel) is really changing the equation.

The problem isn't solved, but it is way less annoying. Somehow a different geometry btwn floor plane and woofer height has taken the boomy, wooly, runaway bottom end from all that toward some definition and clarity. Feels like an amp with a better 'damping' spec, tighter.

Hasn't really reduced the amount of bass, just defined it, tuned it a little. Truth be told, the room is still boomy and clearly not neutral .. But with tight bass sources, I'm really noticing much less. Cleaner source, who cares about the third and fourth degree quirks ...

And you can tell it improved because stands are still hollow unfilled steel tube, aren't spiked yet, and cabs aren't blutacked to stands. (I'll try with and without spikes, but IME the blutack on the top plate and the aquarium sand in the stands nearly always helps focus).

So a little success. Thanks to all here (and yes, somebody did* actually point out that just a little more air btwn woofer & floor could change a lot...) So it did.
b7.

* ['genungo' & Tom Schuman]


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Topic - followup, boomy-spkrs-old-wood-floor post - blinx7 11:05:17 08/24/14 (11)

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