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In Reply to: RE: boomy speakers, old wood flooring : answer ? posted by blinx7 on July 20, 2014 at 11:47:56
It's hard to say what the answer might be at this point in time. If you are absolutely sure that the speakers can go nowhere else in the room then I would suggest that you continue furnishing the room in the "normal" fashion, and as quickly as possible.It sounds as if the importance of speakers is subordinate to the importance of home furnishings in this case. You won't know how good or bad the speakers can sound until you finish crowding in all of the other furnishings. You might even get lucky and find out that the system sounds better with all sorts of junk thrown around it.
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Ah, sorry, should have said. We're furnished. Anything we would add would be for acoustics & damping down the boom factor ...
Really just wondered if there was anything other than the standard fixes.
I keep thinking maybe some kind of wide rigid plate/ pad/ blocks under the speakerstands, to damp the floorboards a bit .....?
Auralex makes "MoPads" and other types of isolation platforms for speakers, in a few different sizes and styles, so check them out as they are known to be effective and relatively cheap.
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My speakers, while not gigantic, are admittedly rather hefty boxes that might be a little large for the room. In addition to stuffing the bottom chamber to capacity with fiber-fill and elongating the port tube, I also have an Auralex Gramma under each speaker and it did help to provide more controlled, more focused bass than before.
The Grammas look kind of DIY...you could probably make something like that, but it might help.
You could also try raising your speakers up on a 12" platform. Changing the woofer height sometimes excites fewer (or different) annoying vertical room modes. It might lighten up and clean up the bass too.
Yes, thanks, that is an easy thing to test.
I can round up a few cinderblocks to test the idea, then consider different stands if successful.
which usually come from "wailing" walls, but I guess old wood floors that are not properly secured could do that too.
Observe, before you think. Think before you open your yap. Act on the basis of experience.
do you have an area rug that you can use? The more you can isolate the speaker cabinets from the floor, the better. Try it. Place something on the walls.
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