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2 Channel Speaker Placement Need Help

I'm setting up my 2 channel home stereo and am having terrible issues with reflections. Speakers are setup in the living room area of a single bedroom apartment. They are a/d/s/ M-15 Tower speakers with 4 10" bass drivers total. Every possible setup I try yields terribly bad reflections in the room especially in the designated listening position. I am considering lining my walls with some sort of sound/reflection dampening material. Is there any certain brand I should look for? Have any other audiophiles done this and how did it work out for you?

Current setup-
Adcom GCD 575 Cd player
Adcom GFP 555 II preamp Recapped
Adcom GFA 5200 Power amp
a/d/s/ M15 speakers

Thanks for any help!! -Keith
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tgrisham
1,291 posts
 
Try this method. When all else fails, try a new method:

http://www.hifi.ir/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/master-set.pdf

Good luck and keep trying.
buconero117
2,311 posts
 
As a test of what wall treatments might do, hang some blankets on the walls. This is a cheap way to tell if some improvement will help. If the blankets provide improvement I would go for the real thing. Plenty of information on the site about that.
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moviemakerkeith OP
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I placed the speakers 4 feet from the back wall, and created an equalateral triangle all sides 9 feet apart. That helped dramatically. The bass lacking issue was due to my small adcom GFA 5200. I just tested an NAD THX 218 250 watt per channel power amp that was lent to me from a HiFi audio store and within 5 minutes the right channel was blown! Amp was wired correctly and didn't even push over 100 watts to the speaks. I will also try all your suggestions. Thank you! -Keith
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