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Originally Posted by Folded  This community here sure is helpful! I'm grateful for the responses thus far.
John, my room heigh is around 8'7. Yes, a horribly low ceiling. I was just thinking 2' was a little too narrow as well from experience. And also, if it was 2 feet apart I'd have to be using a desk, which would lead to comb filtering problems off the desk wouldn't it? Or should I not worry about it.
However, If I'm trying to get a 4' triangle, then I would be no where near 38% of the front wall.
Also, I am not able to treat two of the corners, because of the door and a bookshelf.
So, do I ignore the 38% rule and get a decent sized triangle for listening? Or do I stick to it? |
You're in a tough room....this is where a room starts to become so small that you have to make big compromises to really make it work well. You should not move your head back to the 50% mark to make the 38% guideline work, though your room seems to be so small that no matter what you do you'll be within a short distance of either the 50% mark or the 25% mark, neither of which is good.
The only thing you can do is arrange things in such a way that you get the best response possible from the room...experimentation will be critical. For example, if a 3' monitor width gets you close to the 38% starting point, then do that and tweak from there.
As far as the desk goes, you're going to have to live with some kind of furniture man. Even the high end places have big consoles, which are comb filtering machines. Everybody has to work around it to some degree.
Frank