Hi all, I am in the process of designing an apartment for me in my parent's home's basement. One of the things I want to have there is a home theater system (I'm thinking front projection, probably DLP). I got into some problems while trying to fit in the home theater, I thought I could get some feedback from any of you guys. The apartment will have a kitchen/dining/living room space, in which the home theater system will naturally go. Since this will be a shared, non-rectangular space, I had problems applying rules and tips I've found on the Internet, since they all referred to a dedicated rectangular room -- a luxury which I don't have. The space will basically look like here
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(measurements are metric). As you can see there is an unmovable column there which is a bit disturbing. The height of the room is about 2.2 meters. I was thinking of fitting in the system in the manner depicted in here
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. The green boxes are the front speakers, the red box is the center speaker, which I plan to place below the drop-down screen (blue in the diagram). The purple boxes are the surround speakers. My guidelines for the placement were: 1. screen width for a viewing angle of at least 36 degrees; 2. front speaker angle of 45-60 degrees (I was able to get 54.4 degrees). There are some things which bother me with this placement (besides the practical problems, such as having a screen in the middle of the room): 1. The spectators will have a nearby wall on their left and an open space on their right. Would such a situation not create a confusing sound stage, with uneven reverberations on the two sides? Can this be fixed with some kind of a movable partition which will function like a "sound mirror" to even up the reverberations? 2. The front speakers will probably be wider apart than the surround speakers. Is this okay? 3. The front-left speaker is positioned in one line with the wall, in a way (see
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this cause partial obstruction of the sound from this speaker? Will this harm the front audio image? I can reposition/remove the dashed part of the wall, will this improve the situation? 4. How problematic is this room acoustically? I couldn't figure out how to calculate standing waves (nulls and peaks) for the listening area in such a room. 5. What kind of acoustic treatment should I use? I would appreciate any feedback whatsoever, concerning the questions above or not. Thanks a lot in advance! Sagie. My electronic mail address is at hotmail.com domain. Account name in the domain is "sagsagman".