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Again, you're talking apples and oranges. Performance venues are calculated and treated as 'large' spaces where the rules and goals are completely different than in smaller residential spaces. You can predict things with special software in non-rectangular spaces but it's very very expensive.

You don't want to kill the room completely and your statement of a little room being good is correct. Everything in moderation. Some needs to be dead, some can be left live. The trick is figuring out how much and where.

Counting on 'room boom' (lack of bass control) to offset a small sub isn't a good way to go. You'll get tons of midbass, no low bass, and muddy, difficult to understand dialog. Get a real sub, treat the room properly, and hang on to your hat.

Bryan