The trouble with my listening room: speakers weren't made for it

Living room with a sofa, table and glass walls.

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This feature originally appeared in Sound+Image magazine, Australian sister publication to What Hi-Fi?. Click here for more information on Sound+Image, including digital editions and details on how you can subscribe.

I have a very wide room. In fact, in acoustic terms it might be considered infinitely wide, because each side is ultimately open, to the garden on one side, and on the other to a balcony which hangs over the edge of a rock drop-off. Both ends of the house remain wide open by day, and at night are closed off by insect screens, but nothing that will much constrain airflow.