HELP with Speakers for a 11 ft X 12 ft room???

My room is 12'x9'x7.5' and I really tamed the boomy bass by putting my speakers (Linn Ninka activ) on Aurios. The spikes seemed to turn the floor into a resonating board. The Aurios didn't cure it but the improvement was dramatic.

Stuart

audition the Totem model 1's, staff, or hawk speakers for a small room. I currently use the model 1's with a rel strata III sub in 1 room and a pair of totem arros in my den. They are very nice sounding speakers but I would not suggest the arros for load rock type of music. The arros are made to position close to a back wall if that would help you.

I have found that bass boominess can be reduced by either moving the speakers further out from the front wall, as well as moving your ears further out from the back wall.

Of course, moving the speakers further out from the front wall also has the added benefit of increasing depth.

Small rooms will generally have more reflection problems, by the mere fact that you can't get your speakers far away from either the front wall or the side walls. Try to get the speakers at least 1.5ft away from any wall.

I have also found that placing echo busters (or acoustic foam for a cheaper solution) at the first reflective points on the side walls to help improve imaging. Also, make sure the floor is either fully carpeted, or at least has a fairly large rug.

With your room dimensions, this is what I would do. It's almost square so it doesn't really matter whether you place the speakers on the shorter or the longer wall. I would place each speaker 2.5 ft from the side wall (measured to center of speaker). That should then make the speakers about 7 ft from each other (again measured to center of speaker). Now move the speakers out about 3 ft from front wall (measured to front of speaker). You should sit about 8 to 9 ft from each speaker, which should leave about a foot between you and the rear wall. This is not as far as I would like from the rear wall, but you can help by placing some absorbent or diffractive material on the wall(if necessary). Play around with toe-in until you get the best balance between imaging and width (can't help you on this one as each speaker is different). But it's worth noting that in a small room, more toe-in does help by reducing the reflections.

By the way, I own Nautilus 805 speakers and very happy with them. I've found that front firing ports are better if you can't get the speakers far away from the front wall. Let us know how you go with these suggestions.

Anyone else try a diagnal set-up before? Sounds quite interesting - i hadn't considered it and would like to get people's perspective on it.

I haven't but will be soon. I bought some Vonschweikert vr 4jr's and have a 10 by 10 room. I called Kevin at the VS headquarters and he said for small room to get a good sized sound stage that diagonal is best because the corner behind the speaker and the corners to the side will allow in more room to open up. I've read that before in audiophile rags. Only down side is the speakers will be close to the wall aka more bass problems. On the up side the room reflections will be spread out since it is no longer square.

I realize this post is a year old but anyone else try this?

Rob