Small square room/Lots-a-bass

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Unfortuneately I do not have the luxury of having a rectangular room for my HT. What I do have is a square room thats 12'x12' with your standard 8' ceiling. Due to this layout I am forced to have my front left speaker in one corner of the room while the front right is also a foot from the wall but not in the other corner. My front speakers are JBL D315's (down to 40Hz with 15" woofers). So as you would guess, I got a lot of bass flying around. While I like bass, I suspect I could do better soundstage-wise (meaning less boom, more directness). So here is my question: Assuming the speaker placement stays as is, would using smaller speakers with say 10" or even 8" woofers help ? I don't want to use anything smaller than eights and I prefer to avoid using bass-traps. Yeah I know...my options are probably nill to none, but where better to pose this question than here !

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Topic - Small square room/Lots-a-bass - Iggy 07:46:51 06/26/00 (1)

My experience - Dalancroft 09:47:21 06/26/00 (0)

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