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Room treatment advice

I have a fairly difficult room to work with, and I was wondering what advice you all might have for me. It is a medium small room, with a large sliding glass door on one wall (which leads to a 3 seasons room). We will call this the "right" wall, as you are facing the main speakers. The rear "wall" is mostly an open passage to the kitchen. I do have high ceilings (14' or so), so there is a wall higher up, but the passage opening is doorway height. The left corner of the real wall is a large fireplace, with stone from floor to ceiling. The left wall runs about 10 feet, and then opens into a hall way. The front wall (which is where my stereo/HT setup resides) also opens into a hallway just to the left of the system.

I have Thiel CS3.6's placed about 1' out from the wall. On the left side, they have plenty of air. On the right side, they are about 3.5' away from the wall. This setup is esthetically accurate, and the imaging works out quite well from my primary listening position. I do not currently have a sub, but I am considering one. The center channel (Thiel SCS3) is on top of the TV and works well there. The surrounds are on wall mounts along the top of the rear wall (and above the opening to the kitchen).

My main problem is that this room has very little bass reinforcement. The mids and highs are fine, but the low end has a lot of opportunities to dissipate. Adding a sub should help, but I have read so much about rooms and room treatments, that I am wondering if there are other tricks and techniques that I should be considering.

Thanks in advance, Tom.
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Yes, thank you for the response, Goinbroke (great name!). Interesting point about keeping the levels approximately the same from all sides. I may not be able to completely solve that problem, but you have given me some ideas. In addition, I have, indeed, been fretting over the one sub or two quandray. I want to make sure that I get a good quality sub, that is both musical and fast. I hate the boomy, no definition bass thing. Perhaps it's because of how ridiculous I think those Honda Civics with a trunk full of low quality subs sound when they come booming down the street. To that end, my front runners are either something from REL or one of Velodyne's new Digital Drive subs. I'd love to get a Thiel SW1, but there is no way that I could afford two of them.

Thanks for the help, Tom.
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