Wilson Electronics Sophia Series 2, Owner'S Manual

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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 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 2) offer the best envi-
ronment 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
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