Cardas Speaker placement..


Once again I'm playing around with speaker placement.After reading some from the cardas site I fiqure I would try this method.After putting my dimension's in the calculator it says 4' from the sitde walls.I went with this but the final set up looks rediculous".The speakers look smashed together.does this seem right in a 14.5' room or did I do something wrong..?My room is 14.5' x 22' x7'.The reason for the change in placement is the bass is never right to me..I tried other speakers in this room with the same results..Thanks
spaz

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Spaz, forgive my laziness I haven't read all of the posts. FWIW you are going thru something that I had to do some years ago in a slightly smaller room with similar dimensions/shape.

Have you tried moving your speakers AND your listening chair back and forth at the same time. I have a 6db null at 40 to 50hz which I could never eliminate but I was able to boost a flat 60 to 80hz frequency by 3db and that filled in the bass quite well. Perhaps it helps that my speakers were producing a strong 28/32 hz signal. I ended up with my speakers about 5ft from the wall behind them BUT with their sides closer to the side walls than usually recommended and toed in very substantially to reduce lst reflections off the side wall. The speakers are about 10ft apart and the listening seat is 4 ft from the wall behind it and 11 feet from the plane of the two speakers. FWIW