Speakers on the long wall

My room is 21x12 with a similar height ceiling with the same sort of listening distance from the long wall.The listening seat is a large leather sofa. Only one door to the left of the listening position. The ceiling is coved which improves the room accoustics

Speakers 12" from the wall and about 6.5' apart and TV in the middle.

The speakers are YG Hailey 2.2 and Vitus SIA 030.

It all sounds great and my suppliers have commented very favourably on the sound quality. One who is not a YG supplier tells me mine is the only system he has heard with YGs that impress him. He couldn't put his finger on it precisely but suspected it was the combination of the room and the Vitus amp

Hope that helps

I like the long wall. Lots of good information in here.enjoy the music.

My upstairs living room is approx 28 x 16. I’ve never really had good luck with the speakers on the long wall in this room. Doesn’t sound bad by any means just way less good than the short wall. I’ve tried with multiple speakers big and small. Finally gave up and put the system back down in the basement since the short wall is not feasible long term. Never really had the chance to play with room treatments too much but that might have made a difference. 

I have a 12’ x 20’ room and played it on the short wall for a while. With the room untreated the soundstage felt constrained and I generally wasn’t happy with that, although the bass response was excellent. One thing that really made a big difference was treating the early sidewall reflections, most importantly the first cross reflections, by which I  mean the first reflection of the right speaker off the left wall and vice versa. I treated these in such a way that the reflections were absorbed using an angled panel that was hard and reflective on one side and absorbent on the other. This allowed sound to bounce off the back wall and hit the hard side of the panels and reach me in a delayed fashion, while the direct sound from both same side and opposite side early reflections was caught by the absorbent side of the panel after it had bounced of the wall. I sell acoustics and have been taught that it is desirable to hear reflections from the side walls, but later and weaker than the early reflections directly from the speakers. Setting that up was the first time I had actually heard the effect for myself and I will say that it really opened up the soundstage! I found it very natural and comfortable sounding. Unfortunately it was a cumbersome setup that made the room difficult to navigate so I couldn’t leave it in place. But, there are better ways to do it than my angled panel arrangement. I'd have bought what I needed to make it work, but I ended up switching to the long wall because in my room that turns out to be a much more livable arrangement.

@asctim Interesting concept that makes a lot of sense. My room is the same size so might be worth experimenting. Given your user name, and you indicating you sell acoustics, are you affiliated with ASC. I have been considering their panels for my room.