Treat your speakers and listening position as a sound triangle and set these three components up correctly within your room.
Small listening room setup.
Let s just stop for a minute and think about the room size.
But picking the right setup for your listening needs can be a challenge.
Sidewall first reflection points left and right of listening position are treated with broadband bass traps but other acoustic panels could work.
To start make sure that the distance between your speakers and the distance from your speakers to the listening position are the same.
Black contours indicate for any given speaker placement the resulting delay in arrival of the first lateral reflection at the indicated listening position.
To avoid damage to the new house and preserve domestic tranquility the listening room has a secondary door that opens to a third car garage with no step.
The green triangle is the listening position.
The perfect audio setup is a thing of beauty.
Not just as it relates to the sweet smooth sound filling your ears but visually as well.
A bass measurement odyssey a closed off rectangular room with a flat ceiling may be the ideal space to optimize subwoofer performance but homes with open floor plan spaces have become increasingly popular.
14 feet is great i can live without the eight but as it slopes down depending on the slope if the slope is towards the rear of the room that s good and we would set the room up to be that way.
Walls windows and doors if the room you have chosen has windows cover them with thick blinds or better yet lined curtains to increase the sound absorption.
Here s an analysis of how the first reflection delay varies with speaker placement in my main listening room.
My listening room 1.
We have a 14 foot ceiling that slopes down to 8 and that can be good.
At the ceiling first reflection points the outline of a ceiling cloud is shown.
The side wall distances will be different usually less.
Here are a few tips and tricks to create a home listening room for your family to have a place to hide out and get lost in a world of sound.
The ideal space for a listening room is a room free of noise pollution from loud appliances outdoor distractions or anything else that could disrupt your listening experience.
The room s main door opens to a hallway in the house.
A listening room also shouldn t have anything else in the room to distract or disrupt the sound such as a tv pool table computer or desk.
Minimum acoustic treatment setup in stereo and surround sound mixing rooms lightly treated.