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Office system placement dilema (long)

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Posted by dejan on January 1, 2002 at 15:32:15

Hi,

Could some of you share successful office system layout?

I have a small room that I use to work from home (12'x9'x8') that is really hard to work with (door on a long wall, small window on a front wall, walk-in closet door on a back wall etc). I currently have the desk on the left long wall (left from the door), speakers on the front (short) wall and system on the right long wall. Since the door opens up inside, I must place my speakers (B&W CDM1SE) as close as 12'' from the front wall. In addition, I am sitting sideways (facing the left long wall) when I am working. I need to rotate my chair to face the speakers if I want to listen properly. Otherwise, I hear both speakers with my right ear, while the left ear picks up reflections mostly :-).

Due to my situation (small kids) most of my two-channel listening is performed in this room while I work (the main system in the living room is used for Shrek, Toy Story and the likes most of the time :-).
I am interested in maximising the enjoyment even given the compromises.

I have recently made a scaled-down drawing of the layout and played with the main objects (speakers, the desk, the chair, bookcase etc.). I started by placing the speakers on the opposite short wall, this time symmetrically (about 6'' from each other, 2'' from the back wall, 1.5'' from the side walls). Then I rotated the desk so that I would be have the window behind me and the speakers in front of me. When I added a scaled-down model of the 19'' computer monitor, a computer chair and the sound triangle (speakers and me), I realized that the monitor edges will block the visual line to the speakers. In other words, having a large monitor and a desk with a lot of stuff between you and the spekers will not help at all (not having the visual line to tweeters would affect hights.

Any of you solved this office/second system layout problem with success? Could you share? I am also interested in a combination of amp/speakers other than CDM1SE that worked well in this compromised environment (I feel that CDM1SE is not good for this application since its mid/upper bass bump adds up to the small room bass bump to muddy up the sound too much).

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