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Most of the recommendations I see for high end listening rooms call for the speakers to be oriented across the short wall (ie a narrow room), not the long wall. In every case, though, these rooms have carefully planned wall and floor treatments to make sure there are not *too* many reflections.

I think the issue is probably very simple. In a narrow room you need to worry about side wall treatments, which most people don't do, while in a wide room you need to worry more about back wall treatments, which tend to come for free because people put all their bookshelves and other junk back there.

My intuitive feeling is always that a wider room should be better, but that doesn't seem to match what I actually see and hear.