Digital Room Correction vs Room Treatments

I’ve posted pics of my room in other threads w.r.t. other questions/topics, but it might be helpful to show what I’m dealing with here.

Front of room:

Right side of room with entry door in middle of wall:

Back of room:

Left side of room:

I can remove things like the single speaker in the back, the beverage fridge, as well as the “side table” to the left of the chair.  But all the record racks and wall cabinets for CDs are my media storage and have to remain in the room.  The front cabinets both hold gear (active and spare) and I really prefer not to replace them.

So it’s a crowded room filled with “stuff”.  The sub is currently within 6” of the back wall firing toward the left wall is the room with records in rack about 42” away.  The speaker front baffles are about 3ft from the front wall and near the cabinets, which prevents the inside doors from swinging open without moving the speakers.  Which is fine, I can deal with that.

But my options for placing a sub are limited to the remaining periphery of the room, which means to the right of the record rack on the left wall near the window, anywhere on the back wall, or I could use it as a side table in place of the 1x2 cubby I’m currently using as a side table.  I suppose also on the front of the room between the main speakers as well.

I’m already somewhat having to step around things in certain places to access the records.  I’d prefer not to place the sub somewhere in the middle of the room and have something else to step around.

So this is what I’m working with. No complaints as I’m trying to do a lot with this room and the agreement with my wife was to store all my media and audio gear in my room to avoid clutter in the rest of the house.

But there are somewhat limited options left for placing the existing sub or adding a second one.

Sorry for the possible distortion in the pics.  They’re 1.33:1 aspect ratio and I’ve tried to plug in the numbers to preserve the right proportions, but it posts them distorted once I actually post and view in portrait mode on my phone.  When I turn my phone into landscape mode, the pics look like right and undistorted.

Ok, I need to add one more important thing.  In the past couple of days, I’ve decided to at least try bookshelf speakers in place of the Monitor Audio Gold 20’s.

Part of this is because I am wondering if the Monitors are still too big for the room and the bass output qty is still too much.  And part of this is just me being curious about whether bookshelf speakers can satisfy me as main speakers - I’ve been resistant to this in the past because I’ve always seen bookshelf speakers as “too small”.

But the reality is my room and free volume in this room is also small, so a bookshelf may be the most appropriate sized speaker for my situation.

While it’s by no means a given I’ll like the bookshelves and that they’ll become my main speakers over the Monitors, it’s very possible.  I anticipate the FR curve and overall interaction between a different speaker and my room will be different as well so wanted to give the thread a heads up so I’m not exercising people to help me find a solution for a problem that may possibly change.

So it's worth using the AM Acoustics simulator to see where your room modes are, but one possible solution would be to run soffit traps actually in the soffits.  If the modes are vertically in the corners though you'll want to put them to the side of the TV. 

@captouch that looks like a great music room. Think I understand better at what is going on. Everything looks a bit compressed, and yes, the room is filled. 

You might have a lot of speaker/power for that room, but that's ok. Had a thought, if you can get a wireless connection to your sub, find the room nulls, put the sub in the nulls, it might cancel out the room null. 

On the other hand, with your gear and that room, do you even notice the dip? Is it deep bass heavy? Do you feel the room is dead or alive? As most of us have realized, measurements don't always mean much to our ears. If it sounds good to you, then it's good. 

This is part of the reason why I don't want to measure my room. It's all analog (sans streamer), Done all the old school things, and it sounds good to me, so it is good.