Mark Lanctot wrote: > Bass frequency sound waves are big, on the order of several feet. They > strongly interact with each other - if a peak hits a trough, they will > cancel each other out. If a peak hits a peak, they will reinforce each > other, producing overblown, boomy bass.
To reinforce what Mark says, the speed of sound is roughly 1000 feet per second, the low E string on a bass guitar is ~~ 41 HZ. Simple arithmetic shows that the wavelength of a low E note is 1000/41 ~= 20 feet. So bass notes, without even getting into organ pedal tones, are really long. And when the wavelength is the same as a dimension of your room, or even a multiple of the dimension, it is very bad. The low E string on a standard guitar is ~ 82 HZ, which is about 12 feet. Up half an octave, and you are right at the 8 foot ceiling height of millions of rooms all over America -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
