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2 Channel Speaker Placement Need Help

I'm setting up my 2 channel home stereo and am having terrible issues with reflections. Speakers are setup in the living room area of a single bedroom apartment. They are a/d/s/ M-15 Tower speakers with 4 10" bass drivers total. Every possible setup I try yields terribly bad reflections in the room especially in the designated listening position. I am considering lining my walls with some sort of sound/reflection dampening material. Is there any certain brand I should look for? Have any other audiophiles done this and how did it work out for you?

Current setup-
Adcom GCD 575 Cd player
Adcom GFP 555 II preamp Recapped
Adcom GFA 5200 Power amp
a/d/s/ M15 speakers

Thanks for any help!! -Keith
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mceljo
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I probably can't help you with setup, but will try to ask some additional questions to aid those that can.

(1) Are the sound reflections in a particular frequency range? Is the bass overpowering the room?

(2) Have you sucessfully set these speakers up before in a similar sized room?

(3) What is the general shape of the listening room? The apartment I've lived in generally had odd shaped living rooms.

(4) What have you tried so far?
mceljo
1,348 posts
 
While reading your post I had a strange thought. Is there any chance that one of your speakers was ever repaired and connected backwards to the terminals? Try wiring one of them out of phase and see what happens. I did this in college to a neighbor that would run his stereo early on Sunday mornings playing video games. It was on the wall opposite my bed so I took things into my own hands. It almost sounds like you're in the situation that I put him in.

Also, your Washington and Manchester made me think that we were neighbors, but I'm actually on the opposite coast.
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