7.1 placement

brussell

I'm about to add the rear surround speakers to my set up and have a placement question. I went to the dolby site and used their recomendations for the angles at which to place speakers but still have a question about the rears. My room is long enough that when I follow their recomendations, the rear surrounds are still on the side walls. Should I stick to the angle recomendation or place them on the back wall with a certain amount of distance between them?

Thanks!

Brad

Dennis Gardner

I have used my bi/dipoles in a 16X24 room on the back wall spaced around 6 feet from each other 5 ft from the corners with good results, and have also used monopoles (bookshelf models) in those corners, toed in toward the seating area. I suggest whatever works best with your decor and ergonomics , since your AVR/Processor can always make up the volume difference. This puts sound in your whole room too instead of just one end, which is nice if you want to rock the whole room in 7 channel stereo mode.

John K.

Brad in a 7.1 setup the side surround speakers should be directly to the side. The back surround speakers should be on the back wall separated by about as much as the seating distance is from the back wall(and definitely separated far enough so as to be wider than the normal sitting positions).