A friend is moving into a small bungalow and will be putting his system in his living room 3.73m x 3.91m
Speakers either side of the fire place shooting down the room or across - What say you?
What are the speakers?
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He could use various combinations of mains cables, interconnects and loudspeaker cable to ‘tune’ the speakers to the room? 
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Heco Directs
I would favour trying across rather than the alcove for actual sound quality.
Hopefully it’s a one listener system no TV. He needs to try it all - I once had some large TL speakers and Linn Saras in a similar sized room and ended with speakers either side of the door with leads for one side clipped to the door frame - worked best by miles. If the alcove is favoured for domestic requirements then I would be thinking of Royd Apexes or Rega Elas designed for back wall if your mates current speakers didn’t work out?
Heco Direkts work ANYWHERE!!!?
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Can the sofa be put on the back wall and the arm chair on the RH wall? If so I’d then put the speakers either side of the fireplace.
Not quite, they don’t like corners and it is very volume dependant.
I suspect they will sound best on the long wall firing across the room but if going either side of the fireplace it is worth trying them tight to the side wall and toed in with a decent bit of space left behind them. What they do not like is being equidistant to the side and front walls.
Just as no one is more than 70 miles from the sea in the UK … One is always more than 350 miles from a pair of second hand Heco Direkt speakers … 
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Mmmm…
- Red Herring The guy already has heco directs as stated above.
I was aware…I’ve edited the post so it’s now just a statement. Thank you Mr Adpully. I really should have paid more attention in English. 
Instead of wagging off school and going shoplifting.
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None of the furniture is his so the room will be at least free from clutter. I think 30cm into the room either side of the fireplace might be worth a go ?
You’re always going to have bass issues, no way out of that. Peaks and nulls all over the place.
Big bass traps in the alcoves perhaps? They could be dimensioned in such a way that they don’t intrude too much.
A room that square. With such a low ceiling will need acoustic treatment to manage bass. Or you get some ls3/5a and forget bass ever existed
Not my room but yes room treatment is on the menu.
Big big and very deep bass traps will be the most vital to deal with the wavelengths involved. I had a square room in last flat (5x5.5m) and it took a couple of bass traps to deal with even some of the issues.
Couple of houses ago I had a 12’ x 12’ room and it was an absolute mare. No matter what I tried in there it just boomed, AN-J, AN-K, LV OBXR2, Tune Audio Prime, Harbeth P3esr (they were just shit rather than boomy)
I’d recommend that he buys a Lyngdorf 1120 and uses the roomperfect as I never managed to get anything working well in that square room and could never get on with acoustic panels, who the hell wants to sit there looking at lumps of foam stuck to a wall, ceiling or in a corner of the living room.
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The problem is you can’t EQ your way out of a bass null. This room will suffer them and adding more energy into a null just wastes power making a bigger null.
You just attenuate everything else down towards the null level.
In my square room it wasn’t nulls I had an issue with, it was the bass being boomy.