Help with room treatment?



I know my set up is very modest compared to some on here but I am just getting into this over the last 4 or 5 months. I built a room specifically for listening and once completed my system has sounded so much worse. Bass is worse, highs are worse. I understand it is a fairly empty room right now. After addressing first reflection points will it get any better?
Or should I return to my living room?
Rega P1
Cambridge audio Azur 740a
Cambridge audio cp1
Dali Oberon 5’s

Room is 12.5 ft by 16.5 ft

Also not sure how to add a picture otherwise I would show you

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The problem with Tube Traps. Everybody says they go in the corners, right? Well, that’s not necessarily true. They should go where the standing wave is located. But the standing wave is often not located in the corner per se. it can be located a foot or two or more away from the corner. But all is not lost. Move the Tube Trap a few inches at a time away from the wall, first to the right of the corner, then to the left of the corner to see if there is an ideal location that is not in the corner. Ditto the first reflection points.
The speakers are on the shorter wall. I can move them to the longer wall but would prefer not to because I have a dedicated circuit ran to the plug they are connected to and the other wall would not have a dedicated circuit. Right now the speakers are about 3 feet off the side and front walls. Which makes them about 6 feet apart. Originally I had my 2 listening chairs 6 feet from the speakers.. although this left about 5 or 6 feet behind me to the back wall..it seemed way too close. Almost like I was only hearing one channel playing. When I moved the chairs closer to the end of the room it seemed to get better. Although this way I am now 8 or 9 feet from the speakers while they are only 6 feet apart.
I guess I should mention I was told my speakers have wide dispersion and was told to not toe in at all.. can I still toe them in a but anyway? Should I?
Thanks a bunch appreciate it a lot.
Also.. how do i add a picture to show you. May be easier if you can see the room set up??
To add pictures best thing to do is to create a system here
https://systems.audiogon.com

This is way you can keep it updated as things evolve 

Well you can always PM me.

Never be afraid to try things out. People will tell you things for all kinds of reasons, or no reasons at all. DYODD- do your own due diligence! 

You can send a photo but it turns out I am clairvoyant. I see two chairs side by side. Sitting close like you are even if the speakers are perfectly set up those chairs are always going to have you a foot or two one side or the other. Whichever side you are that's the speaker you're gonna hear. Its just never going to be any good.

If seating is more important than sound you can always put the chairs side by side. But for purposes of setup its a waste of time. Put one chair right in the middle, measure precisely exactly as described above using that one point. You will be shocked at the difference. Everyone is.

I worry that by precisely you think I mean real close. What I mean is within 1/16" or a millimeter. Precisely means precisely.

The "sweet spot" by the way is more a line or plane than a spot. Sitting in the sweet spot you should be able to move a few feet straight ahead or straight back and still have really good imaging. What you can't do is move side to side. Try it and see. Even an inch or two and the image will shift. Any more and the whole balance will shift. Move a foot and it'll be like you said, like its just one channel.

Again, its an iterative process.  We're talking two very different things going on at once. In one, you're moving the speakers several inches at a time listening for bass response. Doing this you just plop em approximately. You're looking for smooth bass. When you like where they are for bass response, then you measure and dial them in down to the last hair. 

Walls reinforce bass and have a huge impact on frequency response. But you don't want them the same distance from the front and side walls because then each wall is reinforcing the same frequency and you wind up with a big bass hump. So again you experiment, further apart, or further back. Mostly you want to listen for smooth bass response.

So you get them where the bass is smooth. Then you tweak them to where the imaging is rock solid. Then you make it even better by treating the first side wall reflection.

Then... but one step at a time.