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From: howard@metheus.UUCP (Howard A. Landman)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Speakers for large-ish rooms
Message-ID: <198@metheus.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Jan-84 20:28:18 EST
Article-I.D.: metheus.198
Posted: Thu Jan  5 20:28:18 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Jan-84 21:32:31 EST
Organization: Metheus, Portland Oregon
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I have a 24'x17' living room, with very little furniture.  For a year or so,
I was using a pair of Advents at both ends of one of the short (17') walls,
but this left a sizeable "dead spot" between the speakers.  Moving them closer
together solved this, but also reduced the stereo effect and thus made the
sound worse in the rest of the room.  I have no complaints about the Advents'
sound in a more normal-sized room.

I finally managed to fill up the room using a pair of Magneplanars (each of
which consists of three panels about 1' wide by 6' high!), which I got used
from a (rabid) audiophile friend who insists on buying completely new equipment
about every two or three years.  But I would be interested in hearing advice
on other ways I could have solved this problem.  I already have been advised
that it is better to put the speakers at both ends of a short wall than at both
ends of a long wall, and my own experimentation seemed to bear that out.  But
what else could I have tried without buying new speakers?

	Howard A. Landman
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