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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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I now have Vandersteen 5A's FWIW in a 23+ x 12+ room. This is
a living room , that I have dedicated to me me me. I have
given my family the 19x18 family room. If anything, I wish
that the 12+ was at least 2-3 feet wider. This enabling me to get the Vandersteens further than approx. 2 feet away from the side walls, where they now reside. I know it's a non-issue for you, but Gammajo makes an essentially important point on getting the listening room away from her ears when she is sleeping. Cardas has some their ideal dimensions on their site, I do remember this includes 9 foot ceilings, but I cannot remember the exact dimensions. It would seem difficult to find this in an existing room, but who knows.
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