tuga
Legal Alien
We're buying a late Victorian mid-terrace house and the hifi will end up in a standard sitting room of the era: 4.45m x 4.0m (14"7' x 13"1'), bay window, fireplace (disused) with recessed areas on either side, carpeted suspended wood floor. I can't remember the ceiling height, but fairly high compared to our current 1970s build. There is a radiator on the wall opposite the window, off-centre towards the door.
Given that many of you likely have or have had your hifi setups in such rooms, I was hoping there might be some acquired wisdom on layout, speaker size, etc, anything really.
Are you sat facing the fireplace, the bay window or one of the other walls? Are floorstanders ok or do they overwhelm the room? Is your sofa flush up against the wall? If so have you had success with acoustic panels on the rear wall?
For context, we have our hifi on a 120cm x 40cm AV stand (bespoke, so not being replaced) with the TV mounted on it. The stand has a cavity under it, so depending on the width it might fit over the raised hearth. My speakers are DALI Optikon 6 Mk2, but my long-term goal is some PMC floorstanders. I have also considered getting a subwoofer, but I will have to assess the space situation once we've moved in.
I've gotten good results by pushing my speakers back into the alcoves and using EQ to compensate for the boundary gain, and I'm now considering adding subwoofers to improve on that.
My speakers are quite deep so the baffle stands proud of the chimney breast by some 200mm.
See link below:
Pushing the speakers back for flatter bass
I was experiencing a somewhat 'hollow-sounding' bass with my new speakers – there was a lot of sub-bass but a chunk of the mid- and upper-bass was missing (see blue curve below, dip between 80Hz and 200Hz) – and after reading about the effects of boundary inteference (SBIR) and how the...
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