McMiRA Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 What is more important in a theater room? The length or the width? I have been looking at many images of rooms and seen them done both ways. I was reading arttos thread and started searching the golden mean. I assume acoustically the same applies for 2 ch. any insight? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McMiRA Posted April 13, 2013 Author Share Posted April 13, 2013 Let me clarify, I am Preplanning the addition on the house and have read and understand the pwk PDF on room size. What my question pertains to is when a room exceeds those dimensions lets say the short wall is 27. I will apologize in advance for multiple posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derrickdj1 Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Novice opinion, length to decrease standing wave problems(rectangular with spearker on short wall). Unless you have speakers that need corners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twistedcrankcammer Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Novice opinion, length to decrease standing wave problems(rectangular with spearker on short wall). Unless you have speakers that need corners. ALL speakers sound better in the corner!! I want to eventually build an addition as well and plan on an exact 1.5 scale of the Golden Mean Cube, but you have to remember that height also figgures into that equasion! Roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris A Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Let me clarify, I am preplanning the addition on the house and have read and understand the PWK pdf on room size. What my question pertains to is when a room exceeds those dimensions lets say the short wall is 27. See the tenth page of this article for the areas that are darkened in the plots - those are rooms whose ratios of length to height, plus width to height are good (the length being the longest dimension, and typically the width being the next longest dimension). It is not possible to talk about one dimension only - it is the ratios of room length to width to height, These plots are much better than any others that I've seen. Note that there are actually three different plots - pick the one closest to your room volume: 50, 100 or 200 meters^3 (that's 1765, 3531, and 7064 feet^3) http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/storage/7/1807974/JAES_V52_6_PG640.pdf Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McMiRA Posted April 13, 2013 Author Share Posted April 13, 2013 This will all lead into posts about seating position, projector distance and screen size and chats about room volume, and power. I am planning on redoing my 11.2 and just have way to many questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Not to put ideas in your head[]. But if I were planning a addition I would include enough space on the front wall(screen wall) for a IB sub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McMiRA Posted April 13, 2013 Author Share Posted April 13, 2013 What's an IB sub? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrappydue Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Infinite baffle subwoofer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Youthman Posted April 13, 2013 Moderators Share Posted April 13, 2013 This shoudl help - Link [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mongo171 Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 This shoudl help - Link And with ONLY 23,000,000 links to choose from. Choose wisely, grasshopper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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themrclean Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 I once read that the perfect ratio for a home theater room is 1 x 1.6 x 2.6 (HxWxL). Example... 16' x 26' room with 10' ceiling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mongo171 Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 What is more important in a theater room? The length or the width? I would say 2 clean corners on the same wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 I once read that the perfect ratio for a home theater room is 1 x 1.6 x 2.6 (HxWxL). Example... 16' x 26' room with 10' ceiling. That seems like a good size, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Youthman Posted April 13, 2013 Moderators Share Posted April 13, 2013 This shoudl help - Link lmao Sorry, I just couldn't resist on that one. [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roaddog359 Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 Wife says I have the best of both worlds, Uh, never mind I thought you where talking about something else. LOL! I need to read the posts better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themrclean Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 My wife says the size of mine is way too big...of course she's talking about my RF-7iis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vital Posted April 13, 2013 Share Posted April 13, 2013 I once read that the perfect ratio for a home theater room is 1 x 1.6 x 2.6 (HxWxL). Example... 16' x 26' room with 10' ceiling.I think that ratio seems spot on. I just happened to luck out and have a room very close to that ratio. My room is 12x22, it allows three rows three chairs wide. I would prefer the 16x26 so they could be four chairs wide and have a fourth row in back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themrclean Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 I can't remember where I read it at but the reasoning was for perfect acoustics for a 7.1 set up. Something about those exact ratios made the sound waves travel in a way that it produced an extremely large sweet spot with little sound reflections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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