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In Reply to: RE: Odd listening chair placement posted by Kythyn on May 02, 2017 at 17:17:36
If you can add acoustic treatment to the sliding glass doors, that end of the room would likely be better for sound. How far from the glass is that doorway on the right hand wall (facing the glass)? If it's at least three feet, you could have the speakers right behind the doorway. With the MMG's dipole output, the opening might not have too drastic an effect on channel balance and imaging. Or even better, put the speakers on the listening side of that doorway, for more distance from the wall behind them!
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BDP24,I want to make sure I understand your recommendations. Assigning the glass slider as the "front" wall and the blue wall as the "back" wall, the doorway to the master bedroom is 70" from the front wall.
I have had the speakers positioned 9' from the front wall (and hence 13 feet from the back wall) and 10 inches from the side walls, with the tv and audio gear cabinets back to back as a room divider. However, that chopped up the room and made the speakers obvious sources of sound when in the listening chair, centered between them. I'd like to try this arrangement again, if I can figure out where to put the loveseat so that the right channel isn't firing directly into the side of it.
If you would please take the time, using the above reference points, can you restate your recommendations in terms of distance from front wall, back wall (distance between them is 22 feet) and side wall (distance between them is 12.5 feet). Room height is 9'. Thanks in advance for your time.
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First thinks first---if the morning light is important to you, forget about doing as I am about to suggest. Direct sunlight is the second worst thing you can subject Maggies to (it wreaks havoc with the glue holding the conductive wires onto the Mylar of the drivers), the worst being water.
If you can sacrifice the morning sun for best sound, do some research (my technical knowledge is too limited to be able to give you definitive advice!) on how to treat that wall of glass at what will be the speaker end of your room. You will need to get rid of the severe reflectivity of the glass with either sound-absorbing curtains, or ones that scatter sound randomly (in different directions, rather than the mirror-like direct reflections off glass).
Once the glass is taken care of, you can put the speakers 60"/5 ft. (or more---up to the location of the doorway to the bedroom, for instance) from that wall, as close to the side walls as you want, firing down the length of the room. Your loveseat will go towards the other end of the room, as close to the counter as you want (but the further away from it you are, probably the better). It would be nice if the doorway to the bedroom can be closed for listening (so that both side walls are approximately the same), but not mandatory.
Then your equipment rack should not be on a side wall if possible---in the bedroom would be great! Seriously, just run your speaker wires from there to the speakers. If you don't want to do that, I guess right up against the glass doors will do, or at the back of the far end of the room. The TV can go up against the glass, and for serious listening (if you plan to do any) temporarily covered with a quilt.
If that sounds like a lot, well, it is! Welcome to audiophilia ;-).
Bdp24,
I will have to give that some thought. It took me a while to figure out that I could sacrifice the dining area ( which is where the speakers are now because there is another eating area on the far side of the kitchen. I am not sure I would give up the sun although maybe if it is only in the mornings I could do that. The audio gear wouldn't work in the bedroom as that is the most minimalist room in the place, with no electrnics allowed. For me, it has made a difference in the quality of my sleep.
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