klettermann
Active Member
As I've posted elsewhere, I've now got a new, wonderful, Dirac-corrected, soundproof listening room. I'm still getting used to it, but am very happy thus far. The most striking improvement has been in the bass. I've got 2 rather unexceptional (but cheap!!!) subs (Heco Aurora 30a's). Speakers are factory hot-rodded Maggie MGIIIa's. I was never unhappy with the Maggie bass, but in hindsight I didn't know what I didn't know. Pre-Dirac, the subs certainly took the low end lower, but not entirely in a good way, mainly cause of room effects. Using REW I got the positioning and sub integration as good as I could and went from ~40hz down to ~20hz, significantly more bass content than I'm used to. But..... still too muddy, too boomy and too poorly defined.
After Dirac the muddiness and boominess was replaced by amazing low end clarity and definition, though still significantly more bass content than I'm used to. On the one hand, I'm hearing information that I ever heard before. And that's great. At the same time the low end is definitely more emphasized than I'm used to. This leads into the subject line. Has anybody else experienced anything like this, i.e., getting used to more low end that just wasn't there before? And how it ought to sound? I'd guess that a civilian, non-audiophile would say that it's bass-heavy. Maybe. Or is it simply that there's LF information that they (or I) never knew existed? Any comments would be very welcome. Thanks and cheers,
After Dirac the muddiness and boominess was replaced by amazing low end clarity and definition, though still significantly more bass content than I'm used to. On the one hand, I'm hearing information that I ever heard before. And that's great. At the same time the low end is definitely more emphasized than I'm used to. This leads into the subject line. Has anybody else experienced anything like this, i.e., getting used to more low end that just wasn't there before? And how it ought to sound? I'd guess that a civilian, non-audiophile would say that it's bass-heavy. Maybe. Or is it simply that there's LF information that they (or I) never knew existed? Any comments would be very welcome. Thanks and cheers,