need advice for sound improvement


Happy New Year everyone!
I would appreciate your help to improve the sound I can get in my listening room from the following system:
- Marantz SA14s1 SE (Ken Ishiwata)
- McIntosh C2200
- McIntosh MC2102
- PMC OB1i
- Wireworld Equinox 5 balanced interconnects
- Black Rhodiun Salsa speaker cables 10 m runs
My room measures L470 x l330 x h240 cm and has one door behind the speakers and one door on the right wall (as I face the speakers). The speakers are places facing the short wall.
I encounter two issues:
1. I cannot find the proper bass sound. Or it is boomy, or it hangs over or it is very thin (good definition but lacks the oomph)
2. The vocals are placed at 1 o'clock (imagine the speakers sitting at 3 and 9 o'clock)

What can I do to improve on the above?
darafifi
Try placing your speakers using the Rule of Thirds. You likely have some room nodes.

Download one of the speaker owners manuals from the Vandersteen website. They provide an excellent guide for optimum placement techniques that actually work!


That is a small room for this much bass output, and your description matches precisely the consequences (room modes). Moreover, transmission line speakers can have a lot of bass, but it sometimes is too much concentrated in a small part of the frequency response. If that peak and the room modes coincide, the problem can be even bigger.
So I would suggest you first measure in room response with a calibrated microphone like the UMIK-1 and the free REW software. Moving the speakers away a bit further from walls and corners may help. Depending on the sources that you us eyou can then start equlizing the reposne. If yo are using a computer as a source, there is the Equalizer Apo software. If you are using other sources, you will need to insert a Minidsp unit or similar.
As for the vocals, well maybe the singer was standing in the centre.
Dear Helomech and dear Willemj

Thank you for your advises.
I will use them.
Currently the speakers are placed at 134 cm from the back wall and at 83 cm from the side walls. This location has improved the sound compared to earlier placements, but I feel that there should be "room" for even better.
10m speaker cable runs are very long. Try moving the speakers closer together. Put some cushions on floor near speaker ports.