Archsam
Senior Member
My shiny new Revel M105 arrived this afternoon, thanks to the persuasion of Amir's recent review as well as the good folks on ASR whose opinions I valued highly. My wallet will recover eventually.....
The M105s replaced the spots previously occupied by my Harbeth P3esr, and straight away I noticed the bass was booming a bit due to the rear bass reflex ports being only 33cm from the rear wall, and the right speaker is also quite near the corner of the room while the left speaker is next to the open side. Previously my Harbeth with its sealed box design was quite happy there.
I tried using the supplied foam plugs to seal the ports, but the bass was reduced too much so I took them out. Then an inspiration came, and I plugged in only the port to the right speaker, thinking the room corner is worse in trapping / distorting the bass, and guess what, it sounds pretty good now.
My question is - will I go to audiophile hell by plugging only one port? Has anyone else done the same?
The M105s replaced the spots previously occupied by my Harbeth P3esr, and straight away I noticed the bass was booming a bit due to the rear bass reflex ports being only 33cm from the rear wall, and the right speaker is also quite near the corner of the room while the left speaker is next to the open side. Previously my Harbeth with its sealed box design was quite happy there.
I tried using the supplied foam plugs to seal the ports, but the bass was reduced too much so I took them out. Then an inspiration came, and I plugged in only the port to the right speaker, thinking the room corner is worse in trapping / distorting the bass, and guess what, it sounds pretty good now.
My question is - will I go to audiophile hell by plugging only one port? Has anyone else done the same?
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