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In Reply to: RE: Room dimension question & door location posted by vinyl survivor on June 27, 2008 at 21:30:53
A lot depends on your speakers, how close to walls you can place them and how far you need to sit from them for the sound from the different drivers to integrate properly. You can certainly do a 2 channel setup in a room that size and I've had smaller rooms. The main listening area of my current room is about the same on the short dimension and a little longer on the long.
Surround sound is more difficult. You've got to fit more speakers in and they need to be placed correctly in relation to the listening/viewing position. The factors above still apply but you are going to have at least 2 speakers a little behind you and out to the side in a 5.1 system and another 1 or 2 more directly behind you with a 6.1/7.1 system. That means the factors above become even more critical and your choice of 5.1/6.1/7.1 system also affects things greatly. In addition, the seating position is dictated to some degree by screen size in a HT setup and the bigger the screen the further you need to sit from it so screen size is also going to impact on the distance between the front speakers and the listening/viewing position and that directly affects room size when you need to place some speakers behind the listening position. My feeling is that you need a bigger room for surround than you do for stereo but I could probably fit a 5.1 surround system with a relatively small screen, say 40" or smaller, in a room that size with careful thought given to speaker choice. On the other hand, squeezing an 80" screen in and adding surround will really probably be beyond the scope of the room.
As for door location, a lot depends on what kind of system you set up—stereo or surround, where you run the speakers, and how you run the cables to them. Pick a door location that doesn't get in the way of any room treatment or cabling and that works best for the equipment and seating layout.
More specific answers are difficult to a question as general as yours with no info provided re speakers or possible surround sound configurations.
David Aiken
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