This is great fun! Am on my third redesign to reflect your suggestions. So now ... what are your thoughts on shifting the speaker array off the room centerline, biasing it 2.5 feet towards one sidewall. By shifting the mains, center and sub this way in my 16' wide room [finished room under current design will be 16' wide x 17 long x 8.75' high] I will have plenty of furniture-free space on the seating access side.
I am already concerned about the nearly square width v length and am considering some form of solid diffusion on the rear wall - possibly a louvered wood slat arrangement in front of a softer rear wall??? I really want to avoid physically narrowing the room.
What about soffits? I notice most designs include perimeter soffits, which solves a lot of wiring and some ventilation issues, but I'm not clear on whether it is preferable to build the soffits to first leaf specs (open space with insulation behind two layers of 5/8 sheet rock w/ green glue) or dropping the from the first leaf ceiling and wall surfaces, using something like 1/4 3/8 panelling, soundboard or perfboard to act as a form of bass trap?
Hope to learn your insights.
I am already concerned about the nearly square width v length and am considering some form of solid diffusion on the rear wall - possibly a louvered wood slat arrangement in front of a softer rear wall??? I really want to avoid physically narrowing the room.
What about soffits? I notice most designs include perimeter soffits, which solves a lot of wiring and some ventilation issues, but I'm not clear on whether it is preferable to build the soffits to first leaf specs (open space with insulation behind two layers of 5/8 sheet rock w/ green glue) or dropping the from the first leaf ceiling and wall surfaces, using something like 1/4 3/8 panelling, soundboard or perfboard to act as a form of bass trap?
Hope to learn your insights.