Positioning satellites...please advise.

wcostin

Well, I finally purchased the Polk RM6200 satellites. I wavered
between the 6600 and 6200's for awhile, but since I am not a huge audiophile, just appreciate good sound, I got the 6200's.
Now, as far as setting them up. My wife blessed the purchase because my existing speakers (Polk bookshelves and center channel) were larger and took up room and she wanted them kind of out-of-the-way in our new house.
So, my question has to do with positioning. The polk manual says that the speakers should be atleast 2 feet from the side walls when mounting. Well, my wife wants me to mount them in the back corners and angle down. My room is long, 14x22...9 foot ceiling, with large windows at both ends. Will mounting them in the corner be a noticeable difference than mounting 2 feet out from wall.
Also, do others have advice on the front speakers. I can either mount them up in the corners as well, or since the entertainment center is situated in a 45 inch space between two windows the speakers would be set above the TV and only about 3 feet apart.

Please help.

Thanks,

Wayne

Micah Cohen

Hmmm. Not sure what's going on here, but I'll try to help out.

Keep your fronts near your TV. The closer they are to the image, the more realistic the soundstage will be.

As for your little surround sats, put them pretty much anywhere behind and above you. Couple a feet up, couple of feet behind, even on the ceiling facing downward, is pretty much okay. It will succeed in giving you rear fill sound. Putting them in corners might even boost their low end response (but don't expect much low end from them, they are tiny sats after all).

It's a good idea to think of your room and your viewing situation as a circle, with the center channel speaker at the noon position and the other speakers arrayed around at approx 10 & 2 and 4:30 & 7:30.

MC

OrangeToupee

I have a suggestion: I suggest to you that your wife is a real pain in the bunfannycake. She won't let you have speakers that occupy too great a percentage of her visual periphery, and even after you acquiesce and comply to her sense of spatial and decorative sensibility, she initiates to control and impose her will on your measure of compromise as well. Heaven's to hashish!

Were you "allowed" to watch the super bowl yesterday?

I'm single in case you haven't figured it out yet.

ntculenuff

just told my wife " the only thing i need is my ht, and its set up space .. you can do what ever you want with decor, but it goes with the ht, the ht doesnt go with the decor:)

as far as the set up goes follow micahs advice and then go from there;)

wcostin

I appreciate the advice. As for OrangeToupee, buy and get what you want now...your day will come and you will understand.

As far as Micah's suggestion. My speakers would probably by more like 11:30 and 12:30 in the front and 5:00 and 7:00 in the back. My concern is now focusing on the front speakers. I could stick them up in the corners, opposite the rears or I could set them inside or on top the entertainment center. The E-center is 45 inches wide with the TV in the middle, which would mean that the speakers would set on the immediate sides of the TV about 40 inches apart. To close to the TV? I am not sure.

Wayne

scottvamp

How big is your T.V. across the middle? If it is a small TV ---it usually makes sence to have a small frontstage. Does it look strange? YES, Your livingroom is fourteen feet wide and your TV is 24" that leaves 12 feet of space for your frontstage.

Keep your fronts near your TV. The closer they are to the image, the more realistic the soundstage will be.

It is really that simple.:)