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Certainly weather can effect how a system sounds, and you seem to have found a solution to your problem, but I will point out a few other things, if they are not helpful to you, they might be helpful to others.
- Make Sure the Speakers are Wired Correctly - This is a far easier mistake than you might think, and it will take more than a casual look to resolve. You have to ABSOLUTELY VERIFY that in every case the Amp(RED ) goes to the Speaker(RED ). Nothing will suck the life out of a speaker like one of them being wired backwards.
- Consider Speaker Placement - I'm stunned at how many people have very nice expensive systems with the speaker shoved back against the wall. Close placement ...close to boundary layers - wall, floor, ceiling - will boost the bass, but what you hear is the Mid/High becoming more recessed and muddy. To test this, temporarily pull the speakers out into the room ...say a meter of so (3 to 4 feet) and see if the sound clears up. If it does, then start working the speakers back until you find a compromise position.
In your case, it seems humidity was more unusual than the average home. Glad you found a solution that works for you. I can see how it might have taken some people a very long time to come to that conclusion, if they ever got it figured out.
But the above two that I suggested are the most often problems people encounter. Typically a floorstanding speaker will need to be between 12 inches and 16 inches forward of the wall as measured from the back of the speaker to the wall. This varies from speaker to speaker though. In my case, my previous speaker would not be happy with 2 feet behind them. The more bass a speaker has, the more space it needs.
Of course, some times circumstances force us to do what is less than ideal. Not much we can do about that. And again, More Bass = More Space, which then implies, and is true, bookshelf speaker need considerably less space. Typically in the 4" to 10" range, though again it varies with the specific speaker.
Indeed your suggest will be helpful to some people.
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