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room layout and treating help

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I recently picked up a pair of Gallo Reference 3 speakers for an amazing price and it has done wonders for my bedroom audio rig, but I'm really starting to notice some echo with my bedroom. The ceilings are 9ft tall and my layout is pretty much what it is on my attached picture.

-Large Black Box on the right in the bedroom is the bed, which sits very low and allows the tweeter to be right at ear-level when I sit.

-Rectangular black box on in front of the window is a dresser about 3ft tall

-grey objects are the speakers, toe'd-in, and audio rack

-Windows are covered in metal blinds currently and floor is decently thick carpet

-doors are closed when I do listening

I've been thinking of rearranging the bed and dresser around and adding some drapes, but that utility room labeled 'WH' makes it tricky to decide how I want to place everything such that the speakers are properly positioned. Any suggestions? (WAF is not an issue here, but money is)

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RE: room layout and treating help - Ethan Winer 12:29:54 02/27/08 (2)
The biggest problem I see is that you sit right in front of a reflecting wall while listening. That's where the peaks and nulls are worst.

Any chance you can move your rig to the living room? That will surely sound much better.

--Ethan
- RE: room layout and treating help - craigus 00:00:41 03/18/08 (1)
  Hi, my room and system layout looks almost identical to the one posted.
  Ethan, I notice you seem to like the larger area of the living room, but I don't know exactly why. I thought it was possible to make a small room sound "big" with the proper treatments, but perhaps this is extremely difficult or just a bit of myth?
  For example--- I'm trying to determine if it's better to sit toward the front of the bed (4ft from rear wall) and put diffusors on the rear wall.. -OR-- .. move the whole rig to the living room so there will be a greater distance between the listening position and any rear reflection points?
  In my case the goal is to improve sound-stage.
  thanks
  Craig
  
  Edits: 03/18/08
  - RE: room layout and treating help - Ethan Winer 14:09:01 03/18/08 (0)
    Larger rooms are better than smaller rooms for many reasons. Yes, you can treat a small room and make it acceptable, but it takes a lot of treatment. Much more treatment - especially bass traps - proportionally than a larger room.
    
    One problem with small rooms is the walls are all close to you, so the reflections are stronger than when the walls are far away.
    
    Another problems is that the modes start at a higher frequency and are farther apart. So that makes the bass response worse.
    
    --Ethan

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