Hi all, I am interested in solving a most peculiar problems with my lab 5s. I emigrated to Melbourne Australia from LOndon and brought my BV5, Lab 5s, Lab 3s and Bs9000 with me. In London My Lab 5s were in a 18 foot by 13.5 foot room resting on wooden floors with underlay and laid on a Concrete base / foundation. My lab5s sounded great with really tight and deep base. In Melbourne our house is built on concrete footings spaced under our solid wood floors i.e there is a metre high gap under our floors (all the air-conditioning and heating duct work is under here). No matter how much I try to calibrate the lab5s I do not get the same RICH deep but tight bass output.
Does anyone have any ideas to experiment towards a solutions ?. Its almost as though the speakers start to compensate due to the gap beneath the floor and somehow lower the bass output !
I remember quite a neat trick touted by many of the pro trade installers for bookshelf speakers. Either gel foot rests to damp out vibration or just three or four blobs of blue tack did the trick. I wonder if something similar would do for Lab 5s.