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(see Figure 6).
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 sustain-
ing 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 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 6) 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 6).
WATCH System in a Dedicated Home Theater
Home theaters can be organized many different ways. Some use rows of couches.
Others use rows of multiple chairs.
In addition to watching movies, most users want to listen to two-channel music at
the highest quality possible. It is desirable, therefore, to choose a single optimum seat-
ing position in a home theater and build the rest of the seating positions around this