So, I though I would be smart, move room with the wife. She had a smaller darker room, I had the larger lighter room. My thinking was that with a smaller room I won't have to turn my music up too so much to enjoy it. I live in a small apt and I don't want to be 'that guy'.

Well, the new room is much smaller. 8ft wide by 11ft long. It can be fully sealed off, well, not air tight, (sorry RnT, cant suffocate), but closed off. The larger room can not.

The speakers are pointed length wise, the floor has carpet, and back wall has a bookshelf. One side has windows with cloth covers, the opposite side has a wall with matched cloth as the window shade. There is some sound proofing foam on the corners behind and to the right of the right speaker and left of the left speaker, but none in the middle. (I found with the foam the sound is much tighter, cleaner).

The sub, when on, not often now, is between the speakers, which are about 4.5ft apart. I sit either close, like 4ft away, or far, 6ft away.

What I've noticed is now with the sub on, there is hardly an extra thump. The speakers go down to 50hz, which in the old room wasn't low enough to hear, but in the new room are fine. But the sub in the new room hardly makes a squeak. It's on, working correctly.

I guess, the question, is it possible to have a room be too small?

I know that comparing the larger room to the smaller room the speakers don't sound as bright and lively. For a couple reason I would image. 1) Less reflection off walls in the larger room, and 2) i sat so far away from the speakers in the larger room it is possible the low frequency sounds just weren't making their way proportionally across the room at lower levels.

Any thoughts on room size? The speakers are just standard Polk RTiA3 bookshelf speakers 5-1/4" Diameter mid range with a 100 watt Onkyo amp and VA Omega III preamp. The sub in an old KEF - prob 6" passive sub run from another Onkyo 100 Watt amp.

Maybe there isn't enough air in the room to move and sound correctly. This concerns me, because the wife wont let me change rooms back, and I've got my eyes set on some larger floor standing speakers in the future.