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New house room size opinions please........

Hi All,

Looking into new house and so far we have 7 "contenders" wich means a room of my own, most houses have rooms in the 13X21 to 24ft range, all in basements. I ran into a house today wich looks great, has alot of other features we would like but a room that is only 14X18 and I wonder if this can still be an ideal room for my use, the room my gear is in now is 13X17 and am pretty happy even though it is our living room so a large cabinet and TV are in between speakers wich kills any performance other then average.
I was hoping to be in a room where I had more room from back wall but if we picked this house should I expect enough improvement by gaining the center image to ignore the fact I will be maybe 2-3 feet from back wall?
Speakers are VMPS FF3SRE and are large but tunable with woofer tuning and active outboard crossover and I never once felt they over-loaded my current room. One thing to consider is in the new room I will listen roughly 10ft from speakers, my couch in current room is against back wall and could be closer but living room WAF issues stand in the way, if in that new room I went 3-4 ft from back wall, sat 10-11 feet away I would have 3 feet behind me, speakers would be 7 ft apart and almost 3 feet from side walls, all in all what do you guys think? Thanks a bunch for your time.....Chad
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chadnliz OP
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Thanks for all replies so far.

I am walking a tight-rope trying to make her as happy as I can and hopefully will be able to get good results for my hobby/passion, whatever we get I will make do and tweak as I go, almost anything is going to be better then all this stuff in a living room flanking a large TV hutch so I am excited all the same.
This ofcourse is a long term investment so the whole situation needs to be considered and hopefully we both get at least a large portion of what we wish for, thanks again.
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thanks Gammajo, if you would call it fortunate I am disabled so one advantage is I am home alone atleast 60 hrs every week so that isnt as large a concern as it would be many times, but great point. I also cant really entertain a bedroom on a second floor for saame reasons, I can get down to a basement to listen in, have a bathroom down there and small fridge and Microwave to camp out for a day, but doing steps for bed time and such isnt very workable for me. Again thanks for the tips so far!
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Great points from all and thanks,

Wich ever house it is they all have a room for my man cave so every option that could be picked is still better then where I am now, this is only one of the homes and most are about 13X21 to 24 ft in length but something tells me this is going to be here fav, she will see them tomorrow. I know that picking a house that the other half isnt totally on board with is going to be a mess, it happened with me and my ex 10 yrs ago.....lesson learned.
Beavis, you are 100% right about not having any idea about how it will sound but opinions are fun to read and share all the same.
Fjn, my dad has Wood Quatro's and in 2 weeks we are going to give a long listen to the 5A as his 1 year upgrade time limit will close soon, I bet he gets the 5A...awesome speaker, and you are a lucky man.
To add the Kurt's thoughts, my parents are buying the house for me so part of feels like I should get the largest vote (after parents approval ofcourse) but I do want her to be happy, she will probably live much longer then I will anyway.
Pryso makes a great point on speakers maybe changing in time but I dunno, on Social Security the cash to buy anything close to a hi-end speaker looks weak at best so they may be with me for a long, long time. As always thanks a bunch for your time, I really appreciate it!
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Yup, I am really excited about the journey, plus the fact my folks are helping with the purchase (I am on fixed income and could never do this on my own)..........I feel like I won the lottery and very thankful for the mom and dad I have. Sometimes life throws you so many curve balls you forget how good it can be if you give it time. My parents dont troll Audiogon but, love you guys! Chad
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lol..what can I say? I am goofy :)
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