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Originally Posted by crwilli
Randy,
I was looking at waterfalls but honestly, don’t fully know how to interpret them other than to know that the decay times should be as uniform as possible across the audible frequency range. Before I did this, the decay in the low end was very long. Now the waterfall looks much more uniform across the range.
That is the extent of my knowledge (or not). 
All my final/fine tuning was by ear.
I only used REW to highlight where the issues were and to simulate my room and see what speaker and LP locations changes would do. It is a very useful capability of REW.
Craig |
You got it.
A long decay time will result in bass that sounds one note or thudding. Long decay and louder frequency response tend to go hand in hand because they are each manifestations of a standing bass wave. If the decay times are relatively even, I find that heavy handed EQ of frequency responses sounds dead. You were smart to target only the two outliers. Finally, I am betting that the newly crisp bass is because you eliminated some impulse edge lag when you stuffed those ports. Bravo!