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zones that accentuate and attenuate particular frequencies. Those frequencies are depend-
ent on room size and dimension.
There are three basic shapes for most rooms: square, rectangular, and L-shaped (see
Figure 2).
A perfectly square room is the most difficult room in which to set up speakers. By
virtue of its shape, a square room is the perfect medium for building and sustaining standing
waves. These rooms heavily influence the music played by loudspeakers, greatly diminishing
the listening experience.
Long, narrow, rectangular rooms also pose their own special acoustical problems for
speaker setup. They have the ability to create several standing wave nodes, which 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 having two sets of dissimi-
lar length walls, standing waves are not as strongly reinforced and will dissipate more quick-
ly than in a square room. In these rooms, the preferred speaker position for spatial place-
ment and midrange resolution would be on the longer walls. Bass response would be rein-
forced by speaker placement on the short walls.
In many cases, L-shaped rooms 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 standing waves (see Figure 2).
M A X X I n A D e d i c a t e d H o m e T h e a t e r
Home theaters can be organized many different ways. Some use rows of couches.
Others use rows of multiple chairs.
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