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I am moving to a new house soon and unfortunately, didn't quite have the budget to get a house with a huge bonus room like my current place. My MLs are about 5' off the back walls currently and sound absolutely brilliant. Unfortunately, in my new place I will only be able to place them maybe a foot off the back wall if I'm lucky. While the room is better in other respects - good light control for a projector setup, darker colors, etc. the layout won't let me space everything out enough to get my MLs out into the room.
I am downsizing my screen to free up a little room but in all likelihood the speakers will end up approx. 1' from the back wall and less than 6" from the side wall. I don't believe the side wall reflections are that big of a deal but I did notice a huge difference with moving my MLs forward and backward into my current room. The further out they are, the better they sound. As they are, the imaging is so good I have never missed a center channel speaker for anything except the further left/right seating positions that are well out of the sweet spot.
So, if I am limited on how far out I can put the speakers, what are my options for trying to get some of that image back? Highly absorbent sound treatment, behind the speakers? Is this just to make it "less bad," or will absorbing the back wave make the speakers sound more like they did in my large room?
in case it is relevant - about 60% HT, with a sub and two rear speakers. 30% music and 10% critical listening as my MLs are one of my reference setups for 2.0 channel music I mix myself
I am downsizing my screen to free up a little room but in all likelihood the speakers will end up approx. 1' from the back wall and less than 6" from the side wall. I don't believe the side wall reflections are that big of a deal but I did notice a huge difference with moving my MLs forward and backward into my current room. The further out they are, the better they sound. As they are, the imaging is so good I have never missed a center channel speaker for anything except the further left/right seating positions that are well out of the sweet spot.
So, if I am limited on how far out I can put the speakers, what are my options for trying to get some of that image back? Highly absorbent sound treatment, behind the speakers? Is this just to make it "less bad," or will absorbing the back wave make the speakers sound more like they did in my large room?
in case it is relevant - about 60% HT, with a sub and two rear speakers. 30% music and 10% critical listening as my MLs are one of my reference setups for 2.0 channel music I mix myself