Too much bass...

[jackwalker]

Since I have moved to a new house, I have too much bass at higher volumes. It's like the ultra lows roll over.
I already closed the ports at the back with the foam plugs and the speakers have spikes.
Recently a friend of mine brought his Silltech interconnects and his Silltech speaker cables and the bass was much and much cleaner, even at a very high volume. Altogether, he paid over $800 for these cables and that is way over my budget. Can anyone recommend cables that are known to handle too much bass for an affordable price?
Thanks,
Jack (The Netherlands)

My set:
Cambridge Audio Azur 540 A
Cambridge Audio Azur 540 C
B&W DW-603 S2
Interconnect Belden with canare plugs
Speaker cable: no brand, $5 per meter

[basite]

you could try Nordost...

Kimber cable is quite affordable for speakercables too, and try nordost IC's or Siltechs...


Keep them spinning,
Bert.

[E-Stat]

Since I have moved to a new house, I have too much bass at higher volumes. It's like the ultra lows roll over.
While I'm not a "all cables sound alike / wire is wire" guy, the problem lies with the room. Cables are not going to selectively correct the often roller coaster effect of some rooms. In my HT system, I use an EQ on a pair of powered subs. There are two broad peaks centered around 60 hz and 120 hz (with corresponding valleys in between) that measure up to 8 db. Indeed those untreated peaks disguised what first octave bass there was.

I would experiment with speaker placement and elevation and consider investing in bass traps or other treatments for the space.

rw

[hermanv]

Speaker placement in a room is very important. George Cardas has this advice:
http://www.cardas.com/content.php?area=insights&content_id=26&pagestring=Room+Setup

Part of his placement is reproduced here:

Speaker placement, simply stated
The distance from the center of the woofer face to the side walls is:
Room Width times .276 (RW x .276)
The distance from the center of the woofer face to the wall behind the speaker is:
Room Width times .447 (RW x .447)
This is all you need to know to place speakers in a symmetrical, rectangular room!

Start with this before you buy cables.

If you do decide to buy cables, my advice is concentrate on clarity, not tonal balance. See http://www.usedcable.com/ or http://www.audiogon.com/ and save a little money. Used Cable has a lending service (not free) but it may save you buying the wrong cable. Many people on this forum really seem to like http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/audio/index.htm
for reasonable cost cables.