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It's 17' by 13'-- my room, that is. My speakers sit 8.5 or so feet apart and 3 feet or so from the long wall-- a position determined carefully by many long hours in the saddle.The room is treated with Eighth nerve triangles in the four corners and seams in each, well.... seam.
As per the used-to-be-famous Audio Physic set-up routine, I sit with my back to the long wall (couch right up against it) and this seems to work fine-- it has in many other places I've lived in the past as well. (Incidentally, the Gik guy-- a fine man-- said i should immediately treat at least the wall directly behind my head-- but i am worried this would deaden the sound too much).
So now the question(s):
The room has two large doorways that lead to adjoining sections of the house-- they are along each sidewall (the shortwalls) and are roughly 5 feet wide by 7 or 8' high-- you know-- big open doorways without doors.
Sooooo.... is this a blessing as there are no sidewall reflections? Or a curse, as the system effectively 'sees' my whole house because the room has such large openings leading to adjoining areas???
I wouldnt care, except I dont seem to be able to get the deep taught bass out of my speakers i've been able to achieve in the past even in a smaller (shittier) apartment room! The floor, by the way, is one of those hardwood flexy-floors-- that can make the CD player skip if you walk too hard!! (that means it's suspended, right?) I'm sure this doesnt help!!
So-- solutions I've thought of are either buy bass traps/treat the front or back long walls (which are not treated currently) or change to the more Winer-approved short wall set-up.
Trouble is, in a short wall set-up-- lots of guests (including myself!!) would be stepping over (hopefully!) the 500 dollar speaker cable running across one of those wide doorways on the short wall (which would now be the front wall) as they walk into the dining room.
So anyone wanna offer any suggestions other than 'move' or have a 60 thousand dollar listening room built? Thanks so much for anything of value.
best and Happy Kwaanza,
Hu
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