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Any ideas regarding Diagonal room set up?

For WAF reasons, I've placed our TV screen to face diagonally out of a corner of our 20' x 22' room with our sofa sitting about 9 feet away from the TV. Our speakers are on either side of the TV, spread about 6 feet apart. They are a foot out from the walls and can either be toed-in to aim at the center of the sofa or aimed straight ahead. I'm sure these angles totally disrupt all the experts' theories about reflected sound. But imaging is decent and bass is neither boomy nor lean. I'm sure many have tried this "diamond configuration" - but I saw no prior threads. Who has experienced this diagonal type of room setup? With what pros & cons? Any ideas for best 2-channel sound with music? Please don't tell me to get a different room or a divorce. Thanks!
terrysimmons
mribob
200 posts
 
go look at my system as posted on 'Ever Evolving'...I have same situation as you describe; and I feel the sound is pretty good; with nice staging; depth and detail. Very good base response; the left side of my room is a bit brighter than the right; due to reflections from windows; but the throw pillows help. I also have pretty high quality gear, and power. I have my subwoofer hidden behind the gear, and it works well; with out too much boominess from being corner loaded.
I did need to experiment with toe in; and have my speakers turned in around 6-7 degrees from being square; and focused on the 'sweet spot' listening position...for HT use; the sweet spot is not so important; but a AV processor with room correction is...good luck
newbee
4,093 posts
 
No reason that your set up shouldn't sound great, but it might be improved if you space your speaker apart about the sme distance as it is to your sweet spot, i.e. 8 to 9ft. You might also try crossing the axis of your speakers 3 ft or so in front of the sweet spot. That will give you a much wider sweet spot on the sofa - three people will get some very good soundstage effect not just hearing the speaker closest to them. The toe in will also pretty much eliminate any residual first reflections off the adjacent side wall.

But its all trial and error - have fun.
terrysimmons OP
11 posts
 
Thanks Mribob and Newbee. After a couple of days with no one commenting on this thread, I was beginning to think that I was the only one mad enough to ever do this. You have confirmed that reasonably good sound can be had like this and your suggestions are great. I'll try what you each have suggested. I wonder what speaker designers would say about this configuration when it comes to imaging and soundstage, especially related to depth.
seikosha
205 posts
 
Actually, this is a very commonly recommended solution for square or difficult rooms. In many instances it works quite well.
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