WILSON AUDIO Watch Dog, Owner'S Manual

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will have different standing wave frequency exaggerations depending on where you are
sitting. Additionally, these long rooms are often quite lean in the bass near the center
of the room. Rectangular rooms are still preferred to square rooms because, by hav-
ing two sets of dissimilar length walls, standing waves are not as strongly reinforced
and will dissipate more quickly than in a square room. In these rooms, the preferred
speaker position for spatial placement and midrange resolution would be on the longer
walls. Bass response would be reinforced by speaker placement on the short walls.
In many cases, L-shaped rooms (see Figure 4) offer the best environment for
speaker setup. Ideally, speakers should be set up along the primary (longest) leg of the
room. They should fire from the end of the leg (short wall) toward the L, or they should
be along the longest wall. In this way, both speakers are firing the same distance to the
back wall. The asymmetry of the walls in L-shaped rooms resists the buildup of stand-
ing waves (see Figure 4).
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