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Listening Room

Hello to all,

I think this is a situation many audiophiles find themselves in: That being your listening room is NOT a dedicated room that your expensive audio system resides in. You do NOT have a chair that is perfectly positioned in between speakers to optimize your listening enjoyment. Why? The room simply cannot accommodate a chair in the center or, most likely, your wife and/or significant other will not allow you to place a chair where it's supposed to be when listening.

Having said that, you listen to music from everywhere in the room. How does one go about speaker placement? How do you increase the sound stage? Are some speaker brands better than others when you do not have a dedicated listening room? Thanks for your input.

lovehifi22

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audition__audio
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Never liked headphones as an alternative. Omnidirectional speakers might help a bit, but most sacrifice other aspects for this ability. There are better omni speakers than Ohm but they can get pricey. 

audition__audio
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What does "being an artist" have to do with your proclivity to spend money? I dont doubt you like your room, but I am very skeptical that you are getting the results you think from rock wool. A great deal of the improvement you hear is based on how the room was treated before. Also the dimensions of the room have a great deal to do with how simply your fixes actually need to be. So the improvements you attribute to rock wool may be the result of other factors, including how much experience you have spent in rooms which are exceptional. 

BTW, I dont think that using recordings studios as the benchmark for listening rooms is necessarily correct. 

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