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Hi Kermit

Welcome to the Shack!

The first thing I would recommend is a nice throw rug (big) on the floor between you and the speakers.

Next, I'd consider treating the front left and front right corners to try to balance the room a bit left to right and also absorb some of the ringing in the room. I'd also consider moving the seating away from the wall behind you if you can.

This is all assuming that what you're showing on the left is just a large opening.

Bryan

 

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OK. Something will need to go on the windows. If it's allowable, some absorptive panels on stands would be of benefit in front of the window.

Bryan

 

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Drapes will help at upper mid to high frequencies but do nothing in the bass. Dealing with the close wall will make it appear acoustically farther away - which is exactly how you deal with the lack of symmetry.

Bryan

 

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Absolutely. The issue with one speaker being close is that it causes both constructive and destructive interactions in the bass/lower mids (spherical radiation patterns) with the main signal. This causes the response up to around 350Hz or a bit more to be quite ragged on the speaker close to the wall and quite different than the other one.

The close boundary also has it's reflections reaching you much closer in time than the ones from the far speaker. Both effects tend to skew imaging specificity, can cause comb filtering, etc.

Bryan

 

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It's really pretty much the same issues. It's just that you'll have additional resonances inside those dimensions. On the other hand, it gives you a nice place to stack up a bunch of pillows or something in the window well when listening...

I assume there's no chance of turning the setup so you're facing the window?

Bryan