FX500is placement question

Justaguy_99

Hi all,

I tried searching this issue, but I probably don't know enough terminology to find what I'm looking for. I have a question regarding placement of my rears in my room. I have a set of F/X500is which are triangular in shape, with a tweeter and woofer on one face and a single tweeter on the other. (Right side pictured below)



The couch is flush with the wall which means I can't place the speakers anything further than ~5 feet at ~10 degrees behind my ears. (See not-exactly-to-scale illustration) Note that this room only has 3 walls, the fourth is open into the kitchen, about 2x the floor space as the tv room.



How should I be orienting these speakers? If I place it as pictured above, the woofer/tweeter side is pointed to the center of the room, away from the listener, with the solo tweeter side pointed to the back wall. Is that the correct orientation?

If not, I see two alternatives...

1) Swap the LS and RS so that the tweeter/woofer side is pointed towards the back of the room.

2) Swap the LS and RS, then rotate them so that their backs are flush with the wall and the tweeter/woofer side is pointed to the middle of the room with the solo tweeter side pointed to the side wall.

I still have the speaker manuals, however they are not clear on how to orient the speaker during placement.

I obviously have no idea what I'm doing here, any help is appreciated.

Thanks all!
Steve

P.S. Bonus question: Should I be setting these to Dipole or Bipole

VSchneider

Here's an article on di- /bipole placement. I think you should have yours on the back wall set to bipole. Place them so that the left is a couple feet away from the side wall.

27dnast

i wonder what would happen if you mounted them at a 45 degree angle in the corners of your room (you would have to affix something in the corners to make this work) and then set them to dipole. That shoot sound down and across the room.

billmich

VSchneider wrote: »

Here's an article on di- /bipole placement. I think you should have yours on the back wall set to bipole. Place them so that the left is a couple feet away from the side wall.

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ravaneli

I have the same speakers for my surrounds! : ) They make great sound effects during movies! When hail is falling you get the feeling its falling in the room - everywhere!

if you can mount them just left and right of sitting position - go dipole. If they fall behind you - bipole.

From your pic it looks like you can go dipole. 10 degrees is ok i guess.

You have great speakers, i really suggest find and read some bipole-dipole explanation yourself instead of getting second hand advice