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In Reply to: I have just moved and the new living room is... posted by Old Guy on May 28, 2003 at 15:41:49:
In my previous home we had a combined living/dining room that was 11' by 22' - almost exactly the same as yours. The problem was that there was a part wall that stuck out about 2.5 feet from one of the long walls, and about 18'' below the ceiling across the opening to the other wall, and there were doors in the short walls on the opposite side to the part wall. The doors effectively meant there was a hallway down that side of the room, at least as far as use was concerned.Running the speakers on the short wall pointing down the length didn't work well. One had to be around twice the distance from the side as the other to accommodate the 'hall' use down the side, and there was effectively an opening (the doorway) to the rear of the speaker rather than the corner on the other side.
I ended up firing them across the short dimension which meant living with placement in one half of the 22' length to accommodate the placement of the part wall. That worked well with dining room usage at the other end.
The problem is balancing the lack of a side wall on one side with a wall on the other. No matter what I tried to do with putting something in the gap, that didn't really work. Breaking up the reflections on the wall on the other side with some DIY room lenses did. While I have a room with walls on both sides in my new house, I still ended up with an open archway around 5 to 6' wide on the right side. I balanced that by installing around 12' of over 6' tall bookcases down the opposite side to absorb and diffuse the sound striking that wall. That works reasonably well. So does listening against the wall rather than out in the room.
Try placing the speakers on the long wall and using either absorption or diffusion on the closer side wall, either singly or in combination, and place the listening seat against the opposite long wall. It isn't perfect but nothing ever really is. You can get very good sound this way. You can also try sticking a bass trap floor to ceiling in the corner behind one speaker to help balance the lack of a corner behind the other. As a final thing, you can then try sticking some sort of decorative screen to the side of the speaker farthest from the side wall to give a feeling of some closure of the room on that side and to provide a bit of reflection to help balance the other wall. As I said, things won't be perfect but you can get a good L-R balance in the imaging, if not the best, and the other aspects of the sound can be very good. I have heard much worse results than I managed to get in my old room so it's worth persevering.
David Aiken
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