Room ratios


Would it make sense to reduce the size of my soon to be listening room(a second bedroom now) from 12'x 16'x 8'high to the recommended size of 11.2' x 15.2' x 8' h. I understand ratios are very important to reduce unwanted standing waves.
djd

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I would build in soffits, soffit traps, corner traps, and use a Rives PARC. Those room ratios are going to give you serious bass problems and you will probably need to electrically correct, but don't do only that. Try to reduce the problem as much as reasonably possible first.
One thing to watch out for as Ouput555 has discovered (the hard way), doubling sheet rock makes for a rigid wall. It helps with sound isolation, obviously, but the more rigid the wall the greater the peaks and nulls in the low frequency. If you do change the dimensions of the room, my advice would be to fur out and use single layer sheetrock with standard bat insulation behind. The 1/2 inches sheet rock is semi-transparent to low frequencies and acts as a capacitor to some degree--thereby reducing the bass problems.