OK I'll try to describe the room layout the best way I know how. My listening room is a finished room above two bays of a 3 car garage. There is wall to wall berber carpet on the floor. The East wall of the room has 2 french doors leading into an office. The North and South walls that intersect with the East wall have a sloped ceiling that begins it's slope 4 feet off of the floor and continues at a 30 degree angle to a 9 foot ceiling. The room is about 14.5 feet wide at this point. The North wall has this slope for 15 feet and then the wall is completely vertical for the remaining 18 feet in the room. The South wall has the slope for the entire 33 feet with the exception of a 6 foot section in the center of the room that juts out to include a set of 4 windows. In this section the wall is vertical.
The seating area is set up "around" a 55" widescreen TV which is at 45 degree angles to the South and East wall. The main speakers will be set up on either side of the TV. The right front will be bounded by the sloping ceiling at roughly 4 feet high and by the side knee wall. The left front speaker will be bounded by the East wall. At that point, the ceiling is 9 feet above the speaker. But the french doors are right beside it. The speakers will be roughly 6.5 feet apart and my main listening chair is diagonally across the room (perpendicular to the TV screen) from the mains and 14 feet away. The sloping ceiling of the North wall ends right behind my primary listening chair.
If you guys can fill me in on a way to put a graphic on this site, I'll gladly include a sketch. The angled ceiling and limited placement options (would prefer not to be forced to upgrade from Wife 1.0) make this room "acoustically challenged".
I'm not strictly sticking with the gear I have now. I'd like to stick with the Denon receiver for a while. But, I'm not against adding an additional amplifier for the fronts, if needed.
Thanks for any and all of your thoughts.
The seating area is set up "around" a 55" widescreen TV which is at 45 degree angles to the South and East wall. The main speakers will be set up on either side of the TV. The right front will be bounded by the sloping ceiling at roughly 4 feet high and by the side knee wall. The left front speaker will be bounded by the East wall. At that point, the ceiling is 9 feet above the speaker. But the french doors are right beside it. The speakers will be roughly 6.5 feet apart and my main listening chair is diagonally across the room (perpendicular to the TV screen) from the mains and 14 feet away. The sloping ceiling of the North wall ends right behind my primary listening chair.
If you guys can fill me in on a way to put a graphic on this site, I'll gladly include a sketch. The angled ceiling and limited placement options (would prefer not to be forced to upgrade from Wife 1.0) make this room "acoustically challenged".
I'm not strictly sticking with the gear I have now. I'd like to stick with the Denon receiver for a while. But, I'm not against adding an additional amplifier for the fronts, if needed.
Thanks for any and all of your thoughts.