Perfect Speaker Placement - Put next to the back wall as much as possible.

Did you read the article?

Yes. Any many similar over the years.

It was talking about setting up a mixing studio.

" Start by facing the short wall of your room" is a non-starter. Many ’mixing studios’ I worked in and my company wired had the desk facing the long wall.

SOP for an engineer who works in rooms from a London scoring stage to some artist’s ’mix room’ is to take your speakers (& amps, cables, level control for the truly twisted) along with some music you know and set up your speakers at the best location for that room.

The article is a crock for kiddies with a laptop.

I read an article on the net some months ago about acoustics of small room.... The article is no more there where i read it... It was a discussion with 4 great well known acousticians, they speak politely, were in accord about many things but surprizingly used very different approach to similar problems and seems to disagree at some point...

I was amazed and conforted in my improvised ears listenings experiments at the times creating my own controls devices for my room...

Acoustic is a practical art, ears are needed, and any small room is a unique problem that cannot be OPTIMALLY solved most of the times by simple rule...

The proof that it is so, was for me this disagrement between these specialists very palpable in the discussion...

Alas! the article is nowhere to be found and i dont remember the names... I remember only that it was a discussion at McGill university ...

 

«A Bird's nest is not a man's house»-Anonymus Smith 

ALL depends about the room . Period .
I saw a setup where one speaker pointed to the wall and one away from
it was best .

Kenjit be messing with you again!!

In a perfect world your room dimensions would be 14.5 X 23.5 X 9'. That gets you the Golden Ratio in all 3 dimensions, and a good starting point. Unless you use the Bolt method, in which case it's off the chart. Go figure. Literally. You still need to calculate and deal with the eigenmodes in those 3 dimensions plus axial, tangential, and oblique. Like this:
https://amcoustics.com/tools/amroc