Okay, so tell me what's going wrong.
My new dedicated room is 13x12x8. It's small. Bare walls. Hard tile floor. Windows on the front wall.
I have some loaner speakers in there at the moment while my other speakers are on order. Right now I have Dynaudio Focus 340s. They are 7ft apart from one another, 29" from the side walls, and 19" from the front wall. I am sitting 9.5ft from the speakers with a glorious center image.
I have ran room correction via my Linn KDS/3, called "Space Optimization." It works very well.
Yet, here I am listening, and verything I put on gives me anxiety. Literally a vibratory feeling that sucks.It's maybe half of a song in and I'm feeling this way.
And I think to myself, "When I'm in my car, cranking my music, why don't I feel the same?" I feel fine in the car. Perfect, even.
So, why would I be feeling this way in my room?
I question if I naturally need to sit further back from the speakers (which I can't do: I'm out of space/room). It seems my best speaker experiences are when I'm at a friend's house and either I'm a really good distance away from the speakers, or the room is very large and/or the speakers are much further apart. All of this, of course, is contrary to what I experience in my car.
Then I think, well, let me try some near field listening with my speakers, and I end up with the same anxious feeling.
There's really only one more thing I can try, and that is to move all of my gear into the parlor, which is a much bigger room. I couldn't leave my stuff there, because the wife wouldn't want it, but at least I could experiment to see if a greater distance from the speakers will be better. However, that doesn't answer my question of why I feel fine in my auto with the music blaring in such a confined space.
Could it be that a sealed up listening space, full of soft stuff, is optimal?
Here is a diagram of my room (if it matters).
http://imgur.com/PC8LyVXThanks for nay thoughts. It's driving me batty.
