My room is 16X25 ft with 8ft ceilings. It's a early 50's ranch-style house, with suspended floor over crawl space. The room with the system is rectangular, with the house's front door on left wall at rear, 5 foot opening to dining room on right wall at rear, 3 ft opening to hallway on rear wall to the right. All these positions relative to listening position 1/3 of the way into the room from the rear wall. Speakers and system are along front wall, with rear of Lores now 15 inches from front wall, 17 inches from side wall. I have GIK tri-traps from floor to ceiling in front corners, GIK absorption at first reflection points, GIK diffusion panels on rear wall directly behind listening position and on front wall between Lores and the flat panel TV in the middle.
Yes, it's possible I've lost some soundfield depth not having them farther out in the room. Unfortunately, I'm not willing to have them 3+ feet into the room due to competing space needs for other room purposes, and I've never tried them that far out. Maybe the next time I have an afternoon free for plenty of experimentation I'll try that option and see what I think. For now, I'm quite happy I've found an option that doesn't require a subwoofer. There are some benefits to lower Lore bass output and using a subwoofer, in that I could use the multi-parametric EQ capabilities of my Behringer to deal with room modes very effectively. However, there are coherency negatives that Paul has mentioned, and I right now I'm enjoying them thoroughly without those coherency issues.
Yes, it's possible I've lost some soundfield depth not having them farther out in the room. Unfortunately, I'm not willing to have them 3+ feet into the room due to competing space needs for other room purposes, and I've never tried them that far out. Maybe the next time I have an afternoon free for plenty of experimentation I'll try that option and see what I think. For now, I'm quite happy I've found an option that doesn't require a subwoofer. There are some benefits to lower Lore bass output and using a subwoofer, in that I could use the multi-parametric EQ capabilities of my Behringer to deal with room modes very effectively. However, there are coherency negatives that Paul has mentioned, and I right now I'm enjoying them thoroughly without those coherency issues.