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The Boom Boom Room

Posted by Bill Way (A) on January 26, 2017 at 05:11:13

I bought a Civil War era house. While while I do the reno, it's "house camp" - hifi in the living room, wires everywhere, with the TV sitting on a couple books on the floor. The sound is terrible. There is an enormous hump around 200 Hz. It's so bad some music is unlistenable. Brown Sugar is one cut that's awful at any level. The boom overwhelms everything. I don't have to fix it, as I'm building a music room, but it remained a puzzle.

This took a while to figure out. Dimensions don't help; no multiples. The LR is 15 x 19, and opens into a 10 x 16 DR. Ceilings are 7'6" (remember, old house.) The gear is Tannoy Stirling GR, Manley Snapper, Oppo 95, and modded VTL Deluxe. No LPs for house camp.

Last night as I went upstairs, I rapped on the living room ceiling. Boom. It sounded like a tom-tom. Knock on the ceiling anywhere and it rings like crazy. The ceiling/floor construction is a good 13" thick, and I'm guessing it's big joists far apart with lots of empty space. It feels like modern sheetrock - probably from a recent reno.

Ah, that's better. I don't have to fix it, as the music room has different construction (there are at least three additions on this old house.) But it's good to solve a riddle.

WW
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