[fenderguy]

hey all, I live in a small cell of a concrete room in a dormitory. In this small 12x8 room i have two floor speakers (each with 12 inch woofers) two bookshelf pioneers, and 4 klipsch satelites all running through two different recievers via a pre-amp. I also have a 12 inch cerwin vega sub, and a 15 inch DCM sub. With all of this equipment and subsequent power, you'd think i'd have killer bass... and i do; but only if you're sitting. If you sit on the couch (with one sub on each side) the thing will ratttle your spleen, but if you stand up and walk around the room, you don't hear very much bass at all. You can actually hear it better outside of my room in the stairwell. I realize that this sort of thing happens, where the sound of the bass is lost in the room it is being produced in, however, how do i overcome this?? A friend of mine has a much larger room and an 8 inch cerwin sub and I can hear his just fine... it sounds really good. It won't make you wet yourself, but at least you can hear it when you're standing up. I also realize that a smaller sub will generally be more musical and is more appropriate for hearing bass, but i would think that between the two 12's in the floors, the cerwin and the DCM i'd be hearing more than i am. I've had a number of people walk into my room and say "it doesn't have much bass..." That'll **** a guy off right there. I hate having to ask people to sit down to experience it properly.

I should add that this problem isn't as prevalent if i play something with extreme bass, such as rap, but i generally don't listen to that sort of genre of music.

Thanks for any of your comments,
Nick