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Any ideas regarding Diagonal room set up?

For WAF reasons, I've placed our TV screen to face diagonally out of a corner of our 20' x 22' room with our sofa sitting about 9 feet away from the TV. Our speakers are on either side of the TV, spread about 6 feet apart. They are a foot out from the walls and can either be toed-in to aim at the center of the sofa or aimed straight ahead. I'm sure these angles totally disrupt all the experts' theories about reflected sound. But imaging is decent and bass is neither boomy nor lean. I'm sure many have tried this "diamond configuration" - but I saw no prior threads. Who has experienced this diagonal type of room setup? With what pros & cons? Any ideas for best 2-channel sound with music? Please don't tell me to get a different room or a divorce. Thanks!
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newbee
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No reason that your set up shouldn't sound great, but it might be improved if you space your speaker apart about the sme distance as it is to your sweet spot, i.e. 8 to 9ft. You might also try crossing the axis of your speakers 3 ft or so in front of the sweet spot. That will give you a much wider sweet spot on the sofa - three people will get some very good soundstage effect not just hearing the speaker closest to them. The toe in will also pretty much eliminate any residual first reflections off the adjacent side wall.

But its all trial and error - have fun.
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