Dogma!

I may be late to the game... but this is particularly the type type of post I was hoping to find. For some reason or another, I like relating my posts to topics already in discussion rather than posting new threads. Don't know why. Maybe it is just to reduce clutter and redundancies on the boards... maybe I am just weird.

I would love to add to the part about addressing issues with things on hand.

I have moved into an apartment recently and have not been able to find the sweet spot in the main living area till last night. The room is "L" shaped with the internal corner of the "L" being the kitchen, so it is actually squareish with an obstruction in the that corner.... that is sort of beside the point other than setting the stage...

I finally figured out how to  arrange the furniture into a usable configuration while maximizing the space acoustically to not just be fighting reflections. This put me utilizing the corner to to force the reflections down the lengths of the "L"  on each side of me. It's brilliant and a night and day difference from every other configuration I tried. At this point I ffeel like I can start investing in room treatment and that it does not equal just grasping at straws...

Everything  was going quite nicely, minus one small thiing.

I am in a second floor apartment. my floor is concrete, but as many folks know, this does not necessarily mead that it is a solid mass. the refrigerator vibrates the floor, the washing machine vibrates the floor... everything vibrates the floor.

Sidenote- I use to play the drums a fair bit. Drum tuning is a thing that I was pretty good at because I figured out that I can visually tune a drum using the light reflecting off of the drum head essentially turning the look of the skin into into the something like the surface of a pond. In the right light you can see the waves not meeting at the appropriate point and adjust tension to zero in the reflected wave to the center of the drum.

At the time that I finally got the speakers to image in the room the bass was just slightly muddied from overbloom from the corner I thought. But, I have not bass traps ATM... how does one address this without turning the bass down, that is IF you have that option available?

While I sat there listening to this discordant reflected frequency, I notice it was like I was sitting on a drum head. The issue I was hearing was much more presenting itself through the floor vibration than in the air. The point of contention seemed to center itself about six feet from each wall, basically right between the speakers.

I am fortunate enough to have a couple REALLY awesome hifi benefactor/guides who occasionally will kick down some thing no longer in use. I had just picked up a (HEAVY) TT stand that was no longer in use and it was sitting in the corner with a plant on it... I removed the plant and transported the stand to the place in the floor where the freq's all jumbled together, mass loading that section of floor. BOOM! Distortion mostly nullified! This also had some diffraction qualities between the two channels.

I now feel like I can add room treatments and that I will be improving a good thing and not just swinging around room treatments hoping to polish a turd!

Just my 2 cents! Thanks for reading!