Diagonal room Setup....

Talk to bobby palkovic at merlin. He favors this setup and speaks about it often...call or email him.

Jason

Steve Deckert of Decware has a page on his web site talking about the benefits of a diagonal setup. Go to www.decware.com and then go to "my room" from the menu. Scroll down the page and you will find a link to "How to set up a room with no treatment" which describes Steve's setup.

Enjoy,

TIC

van den Hul also describes it on his webpage (along with a bunch of other interesting tid bits).

http://www.vandenhul.com/artpap/hifi_tipshints.htm#Section-2

He says 15 degrees is about right although some hifi show demos use 20 or so.

Mine is pretty much diagonal by default (16x12x10). I have a nice little triangle with me in the middle. Even got a desk in the mix. And the floor is carpeted. Behind me are bookcases and two small (12x24) horizontal windows. In one space I put a 12x12 piece of acoustic foam and in the corner behind me I put a few of the big triangular shaped pieces. No boom, no nothing.

Serendipity for sure - if there is a critique its that I don't think I am getting all the imaging/soundstage I could in a more conventional set up. The other thing is, since my rack is in another corner against the wall I ended up with longish speaker cables.

Hey Aball, that is a great web site. thanks