'L' Shaped Listening Rooms. What works?


I'm working with an 'L' shaped room. Kitchen and livingroom are all open running 22ft by 22ft by 12ft on the inside of the L. This is a tricky room to work with. Now I'm looking on bringing the sound even further into the room. The bad news is I can't move the speakers further into the room. How do you deal with your L rooms? Thanks in advance, Bluenose
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Spend $50 and get CARA, the room acoustic modeling software (Do a search here on Agon for more info). I have been playing with it for a couple of weeks, and it has REALLY helped me with speaker placement in my odd shaped room. Although my previous, tweaked by ear and aesthetics, location was pretty good, CARA helped me find locations that sound even better. I would have never tried this position because of the blatant assymetry and weird angles, but it sounds a TON better and I don't need to use my balance control to compensate.

Be warned, the calculations take so long that you will have to use it for a rough idea and then further tweaking by ear. To get a rough position in my room took about 14 hours of 100% processor time on a 1GHz system. A complete optimization would take about 20 years!