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Chakster, that calculator is totally worthless. It does not help you do anything. There are other variables that it totally ignores. 

AND Max just won the Austin Grand Prix!!! A real nail biter. 

Chakster, martinman has a much better room for bass than you have. Equal dimensions are the worse thing you could ever have. No amount of room treatment is going to deal with the long wavelengths. 100 Hz is 10 feet. Room treatment deals with frequencies above 200 Hz at best and it is very important but, for bass it is the room size, dimensions and construction that matter most. The single best way to deal with room nodes is multiple subwoofers. Martinman’s integrated has a full 2 channel 2 way subwoofer cross over built in and an excellent phono stage. The Hint 6 may be the absolute best value in audio amplification out there.

Rectangular room is indeed better. But you guys are crazy about subs!

My room is not square, so the given size is simplified, actually it’s irregular shape with cut corners and a door on the back wall that can be opened while I’m listening to the music (behind the door I have more space for low frequency to be vented out of the room to the huge corridor.

Anyway, maybe I will start a separate topic about room acoustics. I have room a treatment and working on it for better results. But it’s always a compromise between interior design and sound. Actually I have a second (rectangular) room in my flat and my old system was there. I prefer my bigger room now and it’s closer to the square shape, but not square.

Actually my room is on the boarder of yellow and green zone HERE>, so I'm good @mijostyn

Chakster, that calculator is totally worthless. It does not help you do anything. There are other variables that it totally ignores.

If your room is standard shape with parallel walls then you will see room models using this calculator, there are other options.

@mijostyn;

Thank you for such a detailed response!  

I have an older PSA S1500 (12" driver) now, and could potentially add another.  However, I'm wondering if there might be something more musical out there.  KEF Kube, or REL always get the recommendation.  The PSA specs are *way* better though..  

Chakster-I don't mean to create thread drift but this thread is as good as any-I would love to know a bit more about you. You live in St. Petersburg but how old are you and what do you do for a living if you don't mind my asking? And even perhaps a bit more personal but do you own your own freestanding home (I ask because of your generously sized listening room). And yet one more-can you comment on the audiophile community in your area of Russia? Is there one?