Diagonal setup of system...


The other day I had to move my system to clean around the area. I carefully marked where everything was before so that I could put it back the way it was. In order to get to some places on the floor, I had to move the entire system over to a corner. I decided to hook it up to listen to music while I cleaned the area. To my surprise, my system sounded better than it did with a conventional setup, side to side. The system was setup diagonally, sub in the middle, in the corner and mains on each wall. Any reason for this? I am thinking of keeping it this way.
matchstikman

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I am brutally stupid when it comes to things like standing waves and the like. I just hook it up, do this and that and hope it works. However, I have been doing some research on diagonal setups and I don't seem to find nearly as much info as I can with regular setups. I have lots of questions. Where can I find more information on this?
I have a laser pen and after a first initial setup, it seems that things that were a pain to handle before, like open doors, windows, and the like, are not going to be used to my advantage. This could be a good thing.
Rhyno, good post, but what kind of treatments and where? Do the say rules used in a conventional setup apply to a diagonal setup? Bass traps always go in the corners, right? How about diffusers? Where? Dead wall, live wall?

Rhyno, what kind of treatments are you using?