howard@metheus.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) (01/06/84)
I have a 24'x17' living room, with very little furniture. For a year or so, I was using a pair of Advents at both ends of one of the short (17') walls, but this left a sizeable "dead spot" between the speakers. Moving them closer together solved this, but also reduced the stereo effect and thus made the sound worse in the rest of the room. I have no complaints about the Advents' sound in a more normal-sized room. I finally managed to fill up the room using a pair of Magneplanars (each of which consists of three panels about 1' wide by 6' high!), which I got used from a (rabid) audiophile friend who insists on buying completely new equipment about every two or three years. But I would be interested in hearing advice on other ways I could have solved this problem. I already have been advised that it is better to put the speakers at both ends of a short wall than at both ends of a long wall, and my own experimentation seemed to bear that out. But what else could I have tried without buying new speakers? Howard A. Landman ogcvax!metheus!howard