Hi Wayne,
The shelves are floor to ceiling and also open-backed. However, the shelving allows me create a wall from 20" long apple boxes (full of photos, books, clothes, etc.) stacked on the shelves. This gives me a wall 20" thick (albeit with gaps of 1-2" around some of the boxes). In the future I may attach some MDF to the rear of the shelves and then try the sub at the front again - mainly in the attempt to boost the drop I now have near 20hz. Or is that drop not really worth worrying about?
Ok, I'm happy that the response is much flatter now and thank you so much for answering my questions re eq vs. bass traps for bang-for-buck. I'm now a very happy camper
. I have read a lot of your stuff, and others', around the forum which has been really really helpful. How to you find the time to respond to all the threads? Anyway, really appreciate you time.
However, always hoping for more... do you think I can do anything about the drop near 20hz? The sub designer claims it gives 105db at 20hz. Obviously, from what you have said bass traps won't effect frequencies that low. Could I try judiciously boosting the eq 2-3db (I know it's not good to boost but...)? Will it produce clipping? The gain on my sub is only set to about 20% (or does that have nothing to do with clipping?). Alternatively, could I drop the target house curve a little lower overall and if so, by how much?
Cheers,
Blue