How would you treat this corner?

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How would you treat this corner?

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Hi,

So i've moved to a new place and i'm looking to treat the room i'm in for reflections etc. I wondered what might be the best way to go about treating the right hand corner though? Any info would be appreciated.

And yes i will be bringing everything out a couple of feet from the wall once everything is moved in ;)
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Re: How would you treat this corner?

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Is there no other room where you could set up? I can't see that one working very well at all, due to the lack of symmetry. The only thing you could do there, I think, is to build something on the left that matches what is on the right, mirror image, so you can make the front symmetrical.
I wondered what might be the best way to go about treating the right hand corner though? Any info would be appreciated.
Without first getting the two halves of the room symmetrical, there's not much point in trying to treat the right half. Since symmetry is so critical to sound-stage and stereo imaging, and since your right wall is steeply angled, there's nothing you can do on that side of the room to make that wall "go away" acoustically. The only real option that I see, is to build something on the left to match it.

I'm also guessing that the window partly visible on the right just sort of "pokes out" through that angled wall, and that further back in the room the wall reverts to being angled again?
And yes i will be bringing everything out a couple of feet from the wall once everything is moved in
I can understand you wanting to bring the chair and desk further out into the room, but the speakers should stay where they are. If you bring them away from the wall, then the SBIR cancellation will move down to a the lows, creating a huge hole in the bass response. Where they are now, the cancellation should probably be in the low mids, where it is not quite so objectionable.

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