so, boomy bass only refers to bass beat?
how about bass guitar or even brass instruments like tuba? do they sounds "boomy"?

I can kill my neighbors with 35hz sine wave XD
they'll rattle without knowing what makes it

silent killer

boomy bass for me is cinema type bass...low...rumbly...with too much resonance and not much punch. (but cinema system obviously is tuned to make everything balance) it can also be high..but with too much resonance and odd harmonics
tight bass for me = extremely high end concert woofer bass... distortionless... where each note can be heard w/o overpowering the music...each note can be felt.

i'm not a big fan of boomy bass for the type of music i usually listen to but it's nice to have for movies that have lots of explosions and the lot. to me boomy bass is when the bass is heavy to the point that it conpromises the clarity of the mids and also the highs

Boomy bass... if on subwoofer it could make my house ceiling vibrate, if on earphones, it could start "brainquake"

Not a fan of it, could make me headache, after 5mins listening, i will just take it off...

That frequency range is within what I thought I heard. Try This Love-Maroon 5. A bloated headphones/system wouldn't get the bass cleanly. Observe clean passage like the beginning.



Anyway, you need a good headphone as your reference to know what you're missing out and Youtube isn't the best source. Just for example.

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Dec 14 2010, 10:39 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCs5_V6g5ds
What do you call this type of bass? I think it's way too below boomy sound. Like very distorted. And whats the point of listening to such bass?

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Added on December 14, 2010, 10:56 pmI would say that other than the coloration on the mids, another difference between tight bass and boomy bass is their timing on stopping the sound. (not sure how to explain) Boomy bass requires a longer time for it to stop while tight bass stop very fast making more accurate and doing what it is suppose to do.
So it means
Boomy Bass= tum tum tum
Tight Bass= tun tun tun. (it knows when it's suppose to stop)

This post has been edited by Akuma no Hana: Dec 14 2010, 10:56 PM

some example of boomy bass is Proton Saga BLM built in stereo.
go pump the bass max and add loudness.
then play the song The Only Exception by Paramore

midbass will kill you

That is noise, nothing more!

thats the loudness of the sound reaching the limits of the mic so the mic clips and creates the distorted bass. if you're there in the car, it'll sound nothing like that.

Nop, bass guitar can produce good deep bass, boomy is the uncontrolled bass produced by your speaker, more to like 'not realistic'.

+1
Boomy is uncontrolled messy muddy crackling bass that is irritating and annoying.
And it's unrealistic, and distracts you from the music.

Listen to those cheap PC multimedia speakers, even more expensive model such as Logitech Z-2300 or Z-5500 is boomy.

Some, especially cheap ones, or labeled for gaming (like mentioned above) multimedia PC subs have high cutoff frequency, means other than bass could be reproduced on subs, causing it to sound ridiculous, bloating and mudding the lows. Often they use passive radiator, yes externally it might be big 10 or 12 inches and so on but the truth is there's smaller driver inside drive these passive diaphragm.

So it's the subwoofer's problem or the room's problem? A high end sub can also sound boomy if the room sux right。That's why people use bass traps?
That's what boomy means?

sometimes it's the room... sometimes it's the subwoofer... sometimes it's the music recording... sometimes it's ALL

Boomy = sounds like a cannon firing.

boomy bass sounds ridiculous and yes, It makes me feel like vomiting

During my school days, I used to frequent a tuition class in Jalan Pudu above a shoplot. The room was exactly next to the bus stop.

You know when a bus stops and is at idle to pick up passengers, it sort of vibrates and has that "unnnnng" sound from the huge diesel engine? Whenever a bus stops next to the room, that sound is so strong enough to pass into the room, reverberating inside... giving me a headache after each class and makes me nauseous.

That's boomy bass. It reverberates like crazy. Doesn't matter if it's due to lousy speakers, or bad headphones, or terrible placement, or shitty room. The point is, it's rubbish and only an Ah Beng who goes to cheap club to pick up hookers can enjoy that crappy sound in their cars and PCs.

All those 垃圾tech (Logitech), Edi废物 (Edifier), Sonic Gear, Altec Lansing (yes, the used-to-be-awesome Altec Lansing) has boomy bass, regardless of how expensive they make a customer pay.

I may not be an uber audiophile, but at least I don't do ah beng stuff.

This post has been edited by iamyuanwu: Dec 19 2010, 11:23 PM

do you mean the air break?.Man that sound are so annoying if you outside the bus ., better listen to vuvuzela

This post has been edited by zerorating: Dec 19 2010, 11:32 PM

Nope, not the air brakes. It's when the bus is idle (stopped), and the huge engine is rattling. Outside the bus, you won't feel it. But the room next to the bus will hear and feel the engine's rattling reverberating like mad in the room. It's that reverberation that describes the boomy bass.