I'm new here but I'm also going to be difficult. Thanks in advance for any advice.
I'm having a little trouble figuring out what to do about my listening space as far as minimizing first reflections...small apartment living being the problem. My room is about 10' by 22' (with 8' ceilings) but most of the left side (which is also one of the long sides) opens up into a hallway (approx. 1' from where my monitors are) and then a kitchen, albeit with about a 4' tall breakfast bar.
So on one side I have a long flat wall which I will obviously have to treat. But what about the other side? The opening over the breakfast bar does have "walls" about 6' further in, but it is actually cabinets and appliances - I'm obviously not going to be putting treatments in there.
Do I only put absorptive panels on the one side and assume that reflections on the other will be more irregular because of the greater width into the kitchen and all the cabinets/appliances? Should I consider putting a panel on the side of the breakfast bar, meaning from 1' to 3' off the ground? Or maybe above the breakfast bar, which would be from 6' to 8' off the ground (and flush against the ceiling?
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Without seeing your photo I can only offer the most generic advice, and that's to do whatever is needed to make the left and right sides the same. Especially the area between your head and the loudspeakers.
--Ethan
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Ethan, do you mean just take measurements to see if the sound is roughly symmetrical? Because I don't think there is anything I can do to actually make the room itself more symmetrical. At least not without turning things 90 degrees. But I thought that it was always preferable to keep the sound going in the longer direction as opposed to the shorter?
