Newbie question on built-in speaker setup

NZ_Hammer

Hi,

I am a newbie and with young kids haven't been able to set up a good home theatre before, as they are likely to knock over speakers etc.

I am now building a new house and want to set up a good quality home theatre/music system in my lounge. I am thinking of using the Polk in-wall/in-ceiling speakers and using the LC265i in-wall speakers at the front and LC60i in-ceiling at the rear.

However, the room has a central chimney breast and the left and right speakers would be set back in alcoves, as in the picture:



Will I be compromising the sound quality by having the in-wall speakers set back in the alcoves? Will it mean that some areas of the room don't get good sound? After all, if I'm paying for the better-quality in-walls, then I don't want to mess up the sound by bad placement. If so, then I may as well save money and put in the RC85i's.

I wasn't planning to build shelves into the alcoves, but would I be better off doing that and standing speakers on those - given they need to be out of reach of children?

Is there anything else I could improve, or need to think about with this setup?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Cheers.

F1nut

As most of what you'll hear comes from the center channel you can probably get away with your plan A, but I think plan B will sound better overall.

schwarcw

Hi NZ Hammer! Welcome to the Club Polk Forums. Instead of in walls for the fronts, did you consider a wall mount bracket? You could place the speakers in the corners. This would allow you to "toe" the speakers for a better sound image. This would be my choice, or as F1 noted, go to plan B.

WQelcome!

Carl

pnuttzz

Most recievers these days let you set the output of the speakers individually. If you do set your fronts in the recess you should be able to adjust them to get an even sound. It would probably mean turning the output to the center speaker down, but if you don't want to build shelves you should be able manage just fine with some adjusting in to output itself. Yes, there will be some "dead spots", but that's the easy route.

NZ_Hammer

Thanks for the advice. I'm now thinking of extending the chimney breast by a foot each side, so that it can accomodate the speakers.

Vanhool

Welcome to the forum Hammer. I dont know a whole lot about this subject. However there is a lot of people here who know all about this. so hang in there and for my 2 cents you might want to go with bookshelves, ezier to upgrade IMO.
Van