Home Speaker Asylum

General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

Although slightly larger...

...my family room (where the hifi is) is similar in design: 12x17, but it is completely open to the kitchen, so it's really 12x35. I placed the speakers on the short wall, which puts them about 7' apart (to the woofer cones) when they are far enough away from the side walls to sound good. I sit about 17' from each woofer. It's not a bad arrangement, really; soundstage width does suffer some, but I still get images out to the walls so no huge deal there.

Before that I used them in a nearfield (6') listening situation. I had to adjust to the new positioning, but now I like it quite a bit. Depth has increased trmendously as I can place them 3' from the wall behind them, and their frequency response is much smoothed out. I guess because of the weird room dimensions, but i get a pretty fantastic(IMO) in room response from them. I do need alot more power where they are, as you need to push them harder to bring the images back up in size. But honestly, my hifi has never sounded better. Skinny/long rooms can work.


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