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Klaus: "It looks as if there is no straightforward answer."

Posted by genungo on May 17, 2011 at 21:09:20

In Reply to: RE: Re: building a house from scratch posted by David Aiken on May 17, 2011 at 18:51:19:

David, I just want to say that BOTH you and Klaus may be right in some ways. I have been using a long, narrow listening space (12" X 33") for a while now. In this room, my placement options are pretty much limited to the "short wall" style with the 12" wall behind the speakers. But, I'm using the same size listening triangle and distances from speakers to the three closest boundaries as I did when I had the speakers in a 12" X 15" room. One would think that the change in boundary reinforcement would diminish the sense of bass in the bigger room but this has not been the case. Part of the reason for this might be that, as luck would have it, I happen to be sitting near a nice pressure zone in the larger room. Also, my placement options for the two subwoofers I have always used are more numerous in the larger room and with better subwoofer placement I have been able to optimize bass response to a degree that was impossible for me to do when I was in the smaller room. Subwoofer volume levels have remained at about the same setting as they were in the smaller room so the improvements in bass response are not due to a simple increase in loudness. And concerning my perception of the highs and the mids, the dispersion pattern of my loudspeakers seems to minimize the importance of boundary reinforcement in the larger room. Common wisdom might have dictated that the larger room would have required larger speakers, but I now know that there could be a number of unusual factors to consider before deciding that "speaker system X" and "room X" are not likely to compliment each other.

Edits: 05/17/11

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