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Best speaker placement

I have a 12 foot wide by 24 foot long listening room. I have my stereo and speakers facing the narrow wall. What benfits would I get by placing speakers at the end of the rooms in the corners. My stereo is a little bright at this placement. I had my stereo placed the opposite way years ago but I did not have this good of equipment to compare.. My current set up is a lot smoother but a tad bass shy. Bryston 4B SST. Adcom 750 Pre amp. Modified Shanling T-200. Acoustic Signature final tool TT. Graham 2.2 Tone arm. Benz L2. Acoustech PH1 P phonp preamp. Tandberg 3014A Cassette deck and a PS 1000 power regenerator. OHM I speaker with all driver upgrades. Kimber KGAC silver cables. Any opinion appreciated. Mike
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myraj
351 posts
 
Magfan,
The bass tightens up and smooths out at the wall/boundary.
Try it. And you can sit back and just move your head forward (into the dips/peaks) and hear the difference. If it sounds better to your ear, place your seat there.
If it's a tough room, you'll probably like the sound better nearer the rear wall.
Also, you can try hanging something behind your head like a small rug and hear the difference there. If you like it, keep it. Not.....take it down.
Good luck and good listening!
magfan
1,583 posts
 
Myraj, I've never been a fan of sitting at a wall boundry.
BUT, I think you may be right that it is worth a try, so no beef. I have a small woolen tapestry (Peruvian, bought in mid '80s) on the back wall which tames a nasty echo. I have a short wall setup and the tapestry faces the speakers, over 25' away. I sit no more than 11' away.
I might add that making prescriptive recommendations like these are probably a bad idea, but that the owner in question should start experimenting and reading.
There is a substantial amount of setup 'wisdom' out there and it may even converge on a solution....that is have more in common than major differences.
I am in a tough room, very asymetric with NO symetry whatsoever in a room of basically 26x16 w/ceiling from 9' to 12'.... I recently started experimenting w/my Magnepan 1.6s and moved them closer (close as possible, actually) and realized an instant help. Now, I am slowly messing with toe in. Too much and the image, while solid center also seems to collapse and too little toe and I can get a center gap. I am about to 'break the rules' and swap the speakers L/R and put the tweeters to the INSIDE of the panels. This is a CardinalRule NOT to break w/Maggies but I'm going to do it anyway, since this worked one time, many years ago when I still used MG-1s.
I WILL repeat, however, that rooms of even multiples are 'tough' rooms. No amount of equalization can help a room like the OP's.....all dimensions are a multiple of what is the probable ceiling height....So the room is in the ratio of 1:1.5:3 This is bad juju and will be tough to optomize. Can we agree on that?
warnerwh
539 posts
 
Magfan is exactly right. Your dimensions cause peaks in the bass. Bass traps will help significantly.
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