Post by Rabbit on Jul 28, 2017 14:59:01 GMT
Amazing how Blu Tack absorbs bass........
I have to use a soundbar under my tv these days for space reasons, and one thing about these devices is that they sit in front of your tv on some kind of TV stand.
The one that I have is glass topped into steel legs, down onto a wooden floor.
That means that bass travels with ease down into the floorboards and the stand can vibrate with big bass sounds. I became painfully aware of it when a panel on the back was vibrating quite badly on one film that I was watching, so I blutak'd the plate.
That cut the rattle down and then four blobs of blutak were put under the soundbar itself, so that it was in effect, 'stuck' to the glass plate top.
Not only was the rattle gone, but the bass had become remarkably cleaner and faster!! It doesn't creep up so much into the mids but still gives a good rumble when it's there. The speaker seems to have shifted its frequency response slightly upwards so we're more aware of the top end which is no longer clouded as much by the crappy quality bass that these things produce.
I may use a wall mirror to find reflective spots and put panels on the walls as well to help a bit more.
So it does pay off to Blu Tack speakers down I think. I've always done that in the past with small box speakers, although they were less prone to rattle and sending frequencies out via the casing. These soundbars are resonance traps and they really run bass into anything that touches them, so the bass becomes fat and bloated.
Tack them down and they clean up quite significantly.
I guess with the more expensive ones, money is spent on the casing so that vibrations aren't transmitted so easily, but these plastic encased ones are truly awful at controlling the bottom end. They vibrate like crazy if you hold them so that you 'feel' the bass. Of course, the other option is to get the bass away from the stand and add a sub woofer somewhere else. However, Imaging from these kinds of speaker is also improved with the blutak so it is worth doing.
I remember way back, when people were buying very expensive spikes for their speakers to isolate them, so I stayed with the faithful blutak. Mainly to stop small speakers from being pushed off their stands.
Why TVs have such awful sound seems daft to me. With video production, even if the picture is bad but the sound is ok, then you can kind of get over the picture quality because of the sound, but poor sound just ruins everything that you watch if it's fat and bloated; especially with voices.
Many people are attracted by big explosions without realising how these devices can affect the quality of speech with their built in vibration due to poor build. So they give this big fat, impressive sound to sell but listening to talking can be quite difficult. Blutak can help this enormously.
I have to use a soundbar under my tv these days for space reasons, and one thing about these devices is that they sit in front of your tv on some kind of TV stand.
The one that I have is glass topped into steel legs, down onto a wooden floor.
That means that bass travels with ease down into the floorboards and the stand can vibrate with big bass sounds. I became painfully aware of it when a panel on the back was vibrating quite badly on one film that I was watching, so I blutak'd the plate.
That cut the rattle down and then four blobs of blutak were put under the soundbar itself, so that it was in effect, 'stuck' to the glass plate top.
Not only was the rattle gone, but the bass had become remarkably cleaner and faster!! It doesn't creep up so much into the mids but still gives a good rumble when it's there. The speaker seems to have shifted its frequency response slightly upwards so we're more aware of the top end which is no longer clouded as much by the crappy quality bass that these things produce.
I may use a wall mirror to find reflective spots and put panels on the walls as well to help a bit more.
So it does pay off to Blu Tack speakers down I think. I've always done that in the past with small box speakers, although they were less prone to rattle and sending frequencies out via the casing. These soundbars are resonance traps and they really run bass into anything that touches them, so the bass becomes fat and bloated.
Tack them down and they clean up quite significantly.
I guess with the more expensive ones, money is spent on the casing so that vibrations aren't transmitted so easily, but these plastic encased ones are truly awful at controlling the bottom end. They vibrate like crazy if you hold them so that you 'feel' the bass. Of course, the other option is to get the bass away from the stand and add a sub woofer somewhere else. However, Imaging from these kinds of speaker is also improved with the blutak so it is worth doing.
I remember way back, when people were buying very expensive spikes for their speakers to isolate them, so I stayed with the faithful blutak. Mainly to stop small speakers from being pushed off their stands.
Why TVs have such awful sound seems daft to me. With video production, even if the picture is bad but the sound is ok, then you can kind of get over the picture quality because of the sound, but poor sound just ruins everything that you watch if it's fat and bloated; especially with voices.
Many people are attracted by big explosions without realising how these devices can affect the quality of speech with their built in vibration due to poor build. So they give this big fat, impressive sound to sell but listening to talking can be quite difficult. Blutak can help this enormously.