Chriz
04-03-2004, 04:19 PM
I have a fairly long rectangular room, which I have a small hi fi in.
Currently the hi-fi is at one of the further ends (which I'll call the front
of the room) of the room and so are the front speakers. My room has got a
lot of things in it which makes placing the speakers in many places a bit
difficult. These are shelf speakers which I currently have placed on a small
table about 35cm from the ground. The problem is with the bass, not the
sytem's bass production, but how the bass goes through the room. It sounds
too overpowering at various low frequencies, and it doesn't sound too
smooth, it got a rough kind of sound to it which isn't too nice to hear. I
have had the system in another room before where the bass was OK, so I know
it is to do with the acoustics of the room. The bass is quite loud at about
1.5 metres from the speakers, and then it kind of sounds less intense
towards the centre of the room, but at the centre is where you can actually
feel the bass the most. At the back of the room it is loud again, probably
bacuase it is reverberating of the wall. What solutions would I have? Would
moving the speakers closer to the front walls or further away from them
help? Or would it be better to arrange the speakers in the opposite way
(i.e. facing the shorter distance from wall to wall, the speakers facing the
horizontal plane on the diagram below.
Here is a rough diagram of how it is, with main obstacles:
Key
S = speaker
U = unit (i.e. the stereo equiment)
wds = wardrobe starts here (in the direction from top to bottom)
wde = wardrobe ends here
D = door
________________________
| S U S |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| wds |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|wde |
|
D |
|_______________________|
Any help is appreciated.
Chriz
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Currently the hi-fi is at one of the further ends (which I'll call the front
of the room) of the room and so are the front speakers. My room has got a
lot of things in it which makes placing the speakers in many places a bit
difficult. These are shelf speakers which I currently have placed on a small
table about 35cm from the ground. The problem is with the bass, not the
sytem's bass production, but how the bass goes through the room. It sounds
too overpowering at various low frequencies, and it doesn't sound too
smooth, it got a rough kind of sound to it which isn't too nice to hear. I
have had the system in another room before where the bass was OK, so I know
it is to do with the acoustics of the room. The bass is quite loud at about
1.5 metres from the speakers, and then it kind of sounds less intense
towards the centre of the room, but at the centre is where you can actually
feel the bass the most. At the back of the room it is loud again, probably
bacuase it is reverberating of the wall. What solutions would I have? Would
moving the speakers closer to the front walls or further away from them
help? Or would it be better to arrange the speakers in the opposite way
(i.e. facing the shorter distance from wall to wall, the speakers facing the
horizontal plane on the diagram below.
Here is a rough diagram of how it is, with main obstacles:
Key
S = speaker
U = unit (i.e. the stereo equiment)
wds = wardrobe starts here (in the direction from top to bottom)
wde = wardrobe ends here
D = door
________________________
| S U S |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| wds |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|wde |
|
D |
|_______________________|
Any help is appreciated.
Chriz
--
"aouf" It's the new (edited) way of swearing
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=aouf&f=1
This message is available in Dolby Analogue 1.0
Well, that's my 2 cents worth for today.
Damn you all top posters!