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In Reply to: Subwoofer posted by guskund@yahoo.com on March 7, 2007 at 07:10:51:
Their strongest point is very good looking wood.Booming/slow bass is almost always caused by standing waves, which are caused by bass reflections between opposing room surfaces.
In most rooms these bass reflections significantly change the bassline (bass frequency response) played by the bass musician (played directly into a recording console because a recording studio has standing waves too!).
The best rooms for bass tend to be very large rooms.
Standing waves may affect REL subs more than other brands because owners tend to place REL's in or near corners. Subwoofers placed in corners fully excite all standing waves in a rectangular room = the least smooth measured frequency response possible in a rectangular room.
How the bass actually sounds (subjectively) at one seating position in any room requires listening ... because our ears have a one-third octave smoothing ability that can make an ugly bass frequency response curve sound better than it looks on paper.
REL subwoofers may have one advantage over others -- their owners may restrict their mid-bass and upper-bass output so that standing waves above 50Hz. are excited more by the two main speakers than by the REL sub(s). Of course a listener should not care which speakers cause the bass booms in his room.
Fixing bass booms requires the use of as many bass traps as you can tolerate plus a parametric equalizer to finish the job.
Another way to reduce a majority of bass booms in a room, but not all of them, is using dipole subwoofers/speakers for the bass.
Another solution (prevention) is unusually flexible room surfaces that don't reflect bass well.
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Richard BassNut Greene
Subjective Audiophile 2007
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