Speaker placement

Thanks for the help everyone. It’s greatly appreciated ! 

@rhljazz 

Good point! 
@tablejockey 

i will definitely check out the link. Also it’s the big difference in the side walls that will seem to be the biggest issue. Thanks for the help. 

Thanks Ozzy! 

@millercarbon 

Thank you for the advice. Unfortunately podiums we’re out of my budget so I got GAIA ll and lll footers for the mains and surrounds and OREA pucks for the subs. They have taken the vibrations out of the floor pretty good. I have heard some good things about the HFT kits and will check them out. 

@garthb309 

Is your room similar to mine? 

@oldhvymec 

I was referring to Bob if I was to use him not knowing if he took measurements or not. I do have treatments on the walls and ceiling. Have a look on my systems page. I would love to hear your opinion. So far I have run the audyssey xt 32 room correction that came with the Marantz 8805 in the position that the speakers are in now. My next thought was to try the sumiko placement method and see how that sounds. Would I run room correction after each new placement? 

I do plan on going to RMAF here in Denver and am going to try to hit Axpona in Chicago. I hope to see some agon members there! 

@hilde45 

Thanks for the tip. I think I probably made the mistake of putting up treatment before trying speaker placement as there was a lot of reverb. I went off vicoustics recommendation of mostly higher frequency absorption and a small amount of low end absorption. They said with my room it would be hard to know where the bass modes were for panel placement. I’m thinking I can still get better sound playing with speaker position. 

@oldhvymec 

That is exactly what I was originally thinking. Use his listening skills and knowledge to teach me. If my room was more “normal” if you will I would be more confident. I am going to try the advice I’ve received here first and go from there. Bob’s fee varies with the size of the speakers etc. His website is informative. He wanted $750 plus a small drive fee. One thing that is nice is if I don’t hear an improvement I only pay the drive fee. Seems very fair. 

I’m now looking forward to trying it myself with all the help I have received here. Thanks again everyone !

@oldhvymec 

That must be a helluva room those speakers went in! 😂😂. I didn’t get to the part about room treatments with Bob. I wanted to get with everyone here first. I’m not sure if he does any measuring or if it’s all by ear. 

Thank you everyone again for all of the fantastic help with getting my room dialed in. I’m looking forward to making it the best it can be. 

@mewsickbuff 

thanks I’ll check it out.