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Weird Speaker Placement Configurations


My latest listening room has presented me with many challenges, because it is not only a listening room, but also a "music room", study and spare living room.

So fitting everything, including a piano, a big desk and two sofas, working around a glass pocket door and fireplace, while accomodating Magneplanar Tympanis has been no small feat.

In the end, my solution has me sitting with my back in the corner of the room behind the desk most of the time.

This has me wondering: could it be possible to successfully fire speakers diagonally across a room?

Obviously there has been lots of discussion of short vs long walls, distance from walls etc. but is it possible to create the classic triangle where the speakers vary in their distances from their respective boundaries in the room?

Or would this create obvious problems?

Of course I can also experiment, but experimentation can be a full day's work with Tympanis.

Has anyone stumbled into success with an unusual or unexpected placement of their speakers?

Thank you,
cwlondon

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cwlondon OP
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Very exciting news and thank you everyone.

I am overdue to update the photos on my system link. I will try to do this which might be an easier first step than describing the complexity of the room and everything in it.

PS

This thread also came to mind given the idea that a sloped (or irregular (?)) ceiling seemed to contribute to a good room.

So I suddenly wondered why I was so obsessed with perfect symmetry for all of my previous speaker installations.

Thanks again.
cwlondon OP
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I hope I am not confusing any previous questions...but to the advocates of "diagonal" placement:

I assume the usual triangle still applies? Where the speakers still fire on axis to a listening "sweet spot"? And each speaker is still equidistant to the listener?

But diagonal placement would create UNequal distances behind and in front of the speakers as well as to their sides and thus, first reflection points?
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