How to arrange my speakers?


Can anyone give me some suggestions? I'm a beginner.

Room size 11.5'x18.5".
Speakers: Paradigm studio 60 v2, Paradigm reference center, paradigm mini monitor.
Subwoofer: B&W 600
Receiver: Marantz SR7200

The home theatre works great. However, when I listen to music only, the Paradigm studio 60v2 speakers do not give me the feeling of imaging or clarity that most others declare. Due to practical reasons, I can only put the speakers at the narrow side of my room. I put the speakers 3' from the side wall, 2' from the back wall, 8' apart, 10' from listener.

Is there an optimal configuration?
cshen

A lot of good thoughts here. My rule of thumb is simple, based on minimizing room nodes. Begin with the speaker. You don't specify ceiling height, but likely it's either 8 or 9 ft. That makes the first order room resources at 1125/11.5 = 49, 98, 196 Hz; 1125/18.5= 30, 61, and 122 Hz and 1125/8= 70, 141, 281 Hz or 63, 125, and 250 Hz. Now comes the tricky part,you want to locate the center of the woofer where it minimizes reinforcing those frequencies while still maintaining as close to a ratio of .6:1.0:1.6 from the woofer center to the sidewalls, floor, and back wall.  Hint: no room ever allows a perfect combination of all that. If you want to visualize this, try Amroc at amcoustics.com. it will allow you to see the 'pressure points' at various frequencies. This is also helpful in understanding room treatments (panels & diffusers). BTW, your room falls within the 'Bolt Circle' of recommended room dimensions for listening spaces. That's a very good place to start from. Just remember, speaker placement is acoustics, and acoustics is physics, and physics is math. But a lot of people have built online tools to do that math for you. That leaves just the final adjustments to your ears.

Audio Physic website under the support tab see how to set-up speakers

Everything else is just a waste of time.

 

so you have 2 Paradigm studio 60 v2 and 2 paradigm mini monitors, a center and a sub?

I wouldn't know how to place them, that's a lot of sources to a confusing effect.