Ozfly is right. It's pretty easy to calculate the mode response of a room. The formula is on our website. You can go to http://www.rivesaudio.com/LRframes.html and click on the modes and that will show the formula. There's also a section on speaker placement and a short paper on tuning speaker placement. It is not formula based, as we have found too many variations in different forumlas with different types of speakers. We can calculate locations based on the speaker, but then we always use a variation of this method for final tuning. The method described can be used entirely for speaker placement. Another good resource is the CARA CD (we also sell it--so I am biased here). It's very helpful with speaker and listener placement and looking at where nodes and peaks of certain frequencies exist. Lastly, I would suggest that the room is part of the system. Subdoofus you do have a great system in terms of components, but the room could be 90% of the limitations (I don't know more about the room that what you've stated). The point is that the room needs to be considered as in integral part of the system. Many people don't do this and wonder why their expensive systems don't sound like they did in a dealer's showroom.
Is my listening geometry too small?
I have Axiom 22Ti speakers (TMM type) on 15 " stands.
As my room is very small, I have to sit very close to speakers.
Speaker are about 6-7' apart, each of them are a few feet from side and rear wall (equatorial triangle).
I toe them in a bit. (I try toe them in a lot, but feel that it's too bright.)
Is my sitting setup to small to obtain good sound stage and sound quality?
I listen to mostly vocal and chamber musics with some pop/rock and classical. I listen to moderate level, not lound at all.
I would like to hear some thought before putting lot of effort to rearrange my room.
Thanks a lot,
Ake
As my room is very small, I have to sit very close to speakers.
Speaker are about 6-7' apart, each of them are a few feet from side and rear wall (equatorial triangle).
I toe them in a bit. (I try toe them in a lot, but feel that it's too bright.)
Is my sitting setup to small to obtain good sound stage and sound quality?
I listen to mostly vocal and chamber musics with some pop/rock and classical. I listen to moderate level, not lound at all.
I would like to hear some thought before putting lot of effort to rearrange my room.
Thanks a lot,
Ake