I've a feeling this is likely to be in the range of I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, so I'll start with the room (The 21 foot x 13 foot center area):
The blue rectangle in the center is a pool table. The speakers are going to go along the 'top' wall, along the leftish and rightish corners, though placement is somewhat flexible. A subwoofer is planned to go in the bottom left corner, but placement is flexible as well.
There will be a TV mounted in the center of the top wall as well. There really isn't any seating - it's a game room, and people are going to be walking around the pool table or watching between plays.
So my goal is to try to get as good/even sound as possible over the entire room; obviously the idea of 'imaging' is not a goal.
What kind of speaker(s) would work most optimally for the room/setup? (Is this a setup where omni speakers make sense? I've seen links to the Sound Reproduction book, and that's certainly a place to start, but reading a 500+ page book is a bit much for the bit of knowledge I want at this stage. I've got a ton of Harry F. Olson's ribbon mic theory to understand for an entirely different project as it stands).
The blue rectangle in the center is a pool table. The speakers are going to go along the 'top' wall, along the leftish and rightish corners, though placement is somewhat flexible. A subwoofer is planned to go in the bottom left corner, but placement is flexible as well.
There will be a TV mounted in the center of the top wall as well. There really isn't any seating - it's a game room, and people are going to be walking around the pool table or watching between plays.
So my goal is to try to get as good/even sound as possible over the entire room; obviously the idea of 'imaging' is not a goal.
What kind of speaker(s) would work most optimally for the room/setup? (Is this a setup where omni speakers make sense? I've seen links to the Sound Reproduction book, and that's certainly a place to start, but reading a 500+ page book is a bit much for the bit of knowledge I want at this stage. I've got a ton of Harry F. Olson's ribbon mic theory to understand for an entirely different project as it stands).