Equator D5 Monitors - High End on a Budget

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It just takes more material to absorb lower frequencies due to their wavelength. In order for a wave to be absorbed, it has to be in a high velocity, low pressure portion of its cycle, in other words at the zero crossing. At the top and bottom of the wave, the velocity is 0 since it's stopped and about to start moving the other direction, but the pressure is at its highest. Like a car that just hit a brick wall, velocity drops to zero, pressure is at max. Since there's no movement, and there's high pressure, material can't absorb shit. But when it's moving the most but has the least amount of pressure in the middle of the wave, it's easily absorbed.

Since low frequencies have a longer wavelength, a given thickness of material covers a smaller portion of the high velocity/low pressure zone of the wave, resulting in less absorption.

Also low frequencies need more power to sound even with everything else. Look at a spectrogram and the bass is a big lump (not just in dubstep heh)

Two of those combined = neighbor basslines.

The fact that the lows are rolled off will result in less room resonances being excited. So that'll mean no uneven notes jumping out, but the bass will be much quieter due to the rolloff. You probably can't turn your dorm into a proper control room considering the size of dorms I've been in so I'd say just get headphones with low bass extension and A/B on a few systems to make sure.