What's ideal size for a listening room?
I have two rooms to choose from. 15 x 20'with 8 foot ceiling, or 12 x 16 with a 7 foot ceiling.
The first one can be kind of large versus the smaller one which may be more comfortable and not so open.
It seems to me that the large room may require more effort to fill with sound and many other issues may come to light. I just don't know now, I wish I was as smart as so many other people in this forum.
Both rooms have excellent dimensions. I like the larger one because of the 8 ft ceiling. It will take more power to fill it up. It will give you more room for speaker placement on the short wall which is optimum in a rectangle room. When you say it is more open, ideally in the back would be best. Open on either side would be difficult to deal with acoustically. Nice you have options. Have fun with it.
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@emergingsoul I don't where anyone gets their information as to what room dimensions work best, here is a rather long article that explains the theory behind one calculator that shows how any combination of L x W x H of a room will affect your the best possible sound. This is only a start as acoustic treatments will play an important role in any great sounding room. The whole story is here: https://digistar.cl/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=557 If you just want to jump straight to the calculator, it's here. The idea is to have the little dot end up in any area that is Black (best) Grey (good) and white (avoid). https://www.acoustic.ua/forms/rr.en.html The findings of this calculator are proven when the same numbers are entered into other accepted programs. I believe this calculator simply fine tunes the results. This calculator does not agree with some of the suggestions already given. I'm not one to say who is right, but it's an interesting read. IMHO. Cheers. |
Here is another good calculator. https://www.hunecke.de/en/calculators/room-eigenmodes.html |
