The small room requires room treatments to sound good, which has been mentioned above. In a small room, listening in the near-field is basically a requirement. This will allow for the room to be less of a factor. Also, IME no small room can actually portray ’scale’ like a larger room/larger speaker. Small room also requires, again IME, small speakers...generally stand mount to sound best. A sub woofer, so long as it is a smaller sub woofer, can be made to really boost the lower frequencies. BTW, I don’t consider a room with 14’ on one wall that small....to me walls that are 8-10’ apart are more typical of small rooms, albeit rooms with low ceilings are more challenging. Therefore, I also think the volume of the room has a lot to do with potential SQ, not just the distance between walls. As others have stated, a small room can sound great, but it needs a little thought and preferably it needs to be dedicated to the system.
How to make small room sound bigger
Is It possible to make a relatively small room sound larger ? I have a 14 x 11ft with 8 ft ceiling. The room is completely empty, with vinyl floors with cement floor under. Looking into vicoustic sound treatments.
What would be the best approach with absorption vs diffusion and placement to attain a bigger sound space if at all possible ?
I wrote to vicoustics, but did not hear back.
speakers : SF Elipsa, Diapason adamantes, Focal utopia micro
amps: mastersound 845, mcintosh mc452, NAD M10