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What could be instead of side walls?

i've got a living room where the walls are not facing each other equally. there is no place where it's possible to find equally placed side walls. the system is standing right now in the middle and speakers only moved off the rear wall but placed in very large distance from the side walls.
should i use some immitation of side walls arround the system or it's even better not to have any side walls arround?
currently i experience that the stage is out of focus and floating chaotically during reproduction.
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seandtaylor99
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Marakanetz .. I'd try sitting a little closer to the speakers, and moving them a little closer together. I have a very small listening room, and as a result I sit only 5 feet from the plane of the speakers (roughly 6feet from the cones). The speakers are placed about 6 feet apart. The room is 10X12 with the speakers about 3 feet from the rear (short) wall and with about 2.5 feet on each side of the speakers. The imaging is wonderful, and the two drivers seem to blend just fine, even at my marginal listening distance.
My speakers are heavily toed in, facing me as I sit. I have done this to minimize side wall reflections, which I believe are the source of all imaging problems.
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