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Small square room/Lots-a-bass

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Unfortuneately I do not have the luxury of having a rectangular room for my HT. What I do have is a square room thats 12'x12' with your standard 8' ceiling. Due to this layout I am forced to have my front left speaker in one corner of the room while the front right is also a foot from the wall but not in the other corner. My front speakers are JBL D315's (down to 40Hz with 15" woofers). So as you would guess, I got a lot of bass flying around. While I like bass, I suspect I could do better soundstage-wise (meaning less boom, more directness). So here is my question: Assuming the speaker placement stays as is, would using smaller speakers with say 10" or even 8" woofers help ? I don't want to use anything smaller than eights and I prefer to avoid using bass-traps. Yeah I know...my options are probably nill to none, but where better to pose this question than here !

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My experience Dalancroft 09:47:21 06/26/00 (0)
Once upon a time, I had large-volume floorstanders with 8" woofers in a 10x10x8 room that opens to the floor on one side (left of the listening/viewing area) and has a window-sized opening to the rear. I didn't get such great bass in the sweet spot but when I sat on the couch in the adjacent room the bass nodes lined up and it was loud and deep, almost too much so.
Fast-forward to about 2 months ago. With a child on the way, I decided to ditch the large 40-pound speakers -- which needed 12" stands to get the tweeter to ear level and could be easily pulled over by a toddler -- and upgrade to a Paradigm Atom/PDR-10 sat/sub arrangement. And voila! Much better, deeper, tighter bass at the listening area (I assume because it's emanating from 1 source, not 2) and no loud nodes in other parts of the house.
So if you're upgrading and want deep bass for music as well as LFE for movies, a sub/sat arrangement may be worth considering for such a small room.

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