Due to some changes in circumstances which I won't bore you with, I've been forced to relocate the TV & stereo in a 6 foot alcove. Amp is a Rotel RA-1062 driving MA RS6s.
I bought a smaller AV stand so that the speakers weren't tight against the side walls & experimented (as much as constraints allow) with positioning. I now have some fairly serious toe-in which goes some way to reducing boom but not eliminating it (even with bungs). The Rotel has "contour" controls that allow bass to be increased but not reduced.
So there I was thinking what else I could do to reduce bass when I thought about how out of phase speakers lose bass. So just for experimentation, I swapped the bananas on one speaker. Boom gone!
OK, so had a lot of the bass that should be there so I cranked the contour switch up a notch. And so far, on a very brief listen, it actually sounds OK.
I bought a smaller AV stand so that the speakers weren't tight against the side walls & experimented (as much as constraints allow) with positioning. I now have some fairly serious toe-in which goes some way to reducing boom but not eliminating it (even with bungs). The Rotel has "contour" controls that allow bass to be increased but not reduced.
So there I was thinking what else I could do to reduce bass when I thought about how out of phase speakers lose bass. So just for experimentation, I swapped the bananas on one speaker. Boom gone!
OK, so had a lot of the bass that should be there so I cranked the contour switch up a notch. And so far, on a very brief listen, it actually sounds OK.