Using the A4.2s since 5 months but I get too much bass boom from them in my 5,2m x 4,1m room. They are placed at the short wall, have tried all placement options, nothing helps. So what to do now? Would the A2.2 fit better in my room or get the Classic 3/1 ???
Any advice would be more than helpful.
I had some A5s once. Bloody awful things, boom, boom boom. I’d forget Spendors and get something else. If you said what your system and budget are, people can come up with ideas.
Currently Rega Elicit MK5, Wattson Madison Streamer, please could you share some ideas?
Budget for the speakers 4000 Euro
I am a Spendor devotee, even still running HH’s hated A5’s and enjoying them. The only way to reduce the bass element is to position them further out from the walls. If you don’t gel with the A4.2’s it is unlikely that any other Spendor is likely to please. The house sound is to me an expansive mid range with a well defined and controlled bass. I have never heard the Elicit but I read that a few dealers do recommend the A4.2. I would try another make of speaker with the help of dealer demos with your amp.
I like the Spendor sound also, but there is the too much bass thing in my room that I do not like
Filling the rear port with drinking straws has been found to tame bass boom.
I used this technique with Rogers Export Monitors in the 1980/90s with success
Never got Spender at all, get something else, not Focal either, same horse different jockey IMO
Martin
example please?
I find around 20-25 cm in from the rear and corners with a toe in aimed just behind my head. You could move them further in if you have the room. Around 2 metres, max 3 metres between centres for best spacial separation but this will depend on your seating distance from the speakers. I run the A5’s in a small room approx 3x4 metres, the D9.2’s are in a large room approx 4m x 10m firing across the 4m.
All rooms have nulls and peaks. You tried moving the speakers. Any way you can adjust the listening seat? I will assume you have tried blocking/part blocking ports.
Other than that asking for alternative speaker suggestions is relatively pointless. You will have to suck and see what fits/doesn’t aggravate room modes. There are room mode calculators but even so you need to know exactly how the speaker is tuned. It can be helpful to measure modes with something like DIRAC or REW. I have used the WiiM Room measurement, a very basic application but it does the job.
Just stick a sock in the rear port??
I have tried this but find the sound a little wooly. (No pun intended).
I have A4.2 and I like them. Mine are 46cm from the back-wall and nowhere near a side-wall. I also have them on IsoAcoustics Gaia Neo III. They definitely need space behind them due to the back-firing bass ports. You could experiment with a bit of acoustic foam in the bass ports (not nice, but sometimes it works).
have them tweeter to tweeter 2m apart, 85cm from the front wall (measured from backside of each speaker), toed-in to listening position, listening position 2,4m from front axis of speaker and approx. 180cm from back wall
Yes I know, have to search for a speaker with much less bass extension, Harbeth P3 XD2 perhaps the right one……?
Hmmm… that sounds vey good and plenty of space around them. If I walk around the room, I have one spot where bass is too much, but at the listening position and all other locations it sounds nice. Maybe a room mode problem. You could think of trying out different speaker cables or maybe even an acoustic panel behind them.
Also think it is a room mode problem, but do you really think other speaker cables would/could solve it?
Room bass modes replicate with increased frequency though the implications become usually less troublesome. The room contributes a huge amount to what you hear as you know. Finding a speaker will not be easy. Trial and error though choosing one with not much bass is not a bad idea but it may not completely solve your issue and could create its own. Rooms can be extremely frustrating as I found out myself. I resorted to modifying my speakers to suit but this is not something everyone wants to do.
There is an old fashioned way of testing your speaker positioning. Put one Speaker where your listening position is. Point it towards the position that you would like you speakers to be. Sit down on the floor where your ideal speaker position is wanted. Move around and find the best bass sound from that single speaker. That’s the centre position of your new speaker set up.
nice, will try that really out….