How can I fool speakers into thinking they are in a bigger room?
For many years I have had the luxury of a 6x4 meter dedicated listeningy room, and very nice it has sounded to. Very soon though, with semi retirement around the corner, there will be a substantial downsizing to a bedroom 5x3.6, and being a bedroom that has to include a bed!
I'm building a small speaker using a seas 5.5 in midbass and fountek neo x 2 ribbon tweeters, which should be a good match for this space. I'm reluctant though to mothball totally the World Audio Design 25t excels that I built several years back. Problem, as far as I can work out these will have to be only, ballpark, 60cm from woofer centre to the side walls. I'm listening to them now with one speaker at this distance but the other has plenty of free space around it, and seating is at the distance I'll be using in the new room. Frankly it sounds amazingly good, but of course this isnt quite what the new room will be. Since there will be a bed, recliner chair and some small tables for the stereo equipment the room will be very well damped, but how can I fool the speakers into thinking they are further out from the side walls than they are? Expensive Pro grade room treatments are out of the budget, so any suggestions for affordable solutions would be very welcome.
Without music, powerboat racing, photography and a whole stack of other stuff that floats my boat, life is just a non stop procession of deadlines and bills.