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Have you gotten great sound in a small er room?

I have a room that's 13 x 20 with the old part of the room having 8' ceilings and the newer construction nearly 10'. I found that firing the speakers across the short wall was interesting sonically: more open-sounding than firing down the long wall (which I've traditionally done). The sound is more layered, but the imaging diffuse. However, the sidewall reflections are much more reduced (and i have considerable ASC tube traps, and an ASC wall damp in the room.
What's your experience in a smaller room? Were you able to get both the music, and the soundstaging to cohere in a smaller room?
gbmcleod

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geoffkait
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A room that's 20 by 13 with 10' ceiling is a small room? Interesting.
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Gbmcleod wrote,

"Geoffkait, just happened to be looking at old threads, and saw your response from 3 years ago, and laughed."

One naturally assumes you were laughing with me.

cheers,

G. Kait
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In a small room early reflections and slap echoes will be louder than for large rooms all things being equal since the acoustic waves don't have as far to travel; consequently I operate on the assumption that smaller rooms require more aggressive acoustic treatment, you know, Tube Traps, Shakti Halographs, tiny little bowl resonators, Mpingo discs, Corner Tunes, diffusers, what have you.
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