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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 hav -
ing two sets of dissimilar length walls, stand -
ing 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 speak -
er 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 16).
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