Mounting speakers rotated to the side.

kuntasensei
kuntasensei Posts: 3,263
I'm looking to mount a pair of RTi28s on my back wall, but that particular wall has a very unfortunately placed window into the kitchen area that leaves me only about 14" above it to mount the right rear surround. Mounting them flush using the keyhole slots would put them at too great an angle off from my listening position, so I'm looking at Omnimount 20.0s to bring them away from the wall and angle them down a bit.

However, I don't want the speakers to hang visibly into that window from the kitchen, so I want to mount them sideways (especially since they're going to be angled down and I figure they'll probably have a better off-axis response in that plane anyway). So dumb question: Should I mount them with the tweeters toward the center or woofers toward the center?

Here's an old pic of the back wall, with red boxes showing roughly where I plan on mounting the 28s. If anyone has any other suggestions on what I should do here, let me know.
backwalltd6.jpg
Equipment list:
Onkyo TX-NR3010 9.2 AVR
Emotiva XPA-3 amp
Polk RTi70 mains, CSi40 center, RTi38 surrounds, RTi28 rears and heights
SVS 20-39CS+ subwoofer powered by Crown XLS1500
Oppo BDP-93 Blu-ray player
DarbeeVision DVP5000 video processor
Epson 8500UB 1080p projector
Elite Screens Sable 120" CineWhite screen
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited September 2007
    Are you using a BTech77 now? Why not mount them symetrically on either side of the window? The tweeter in/out issue would be entirely preference and easy to do your own A/B.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
  • engtaz
    engtaz Posts: 7,664
    edited September 2007
    dorokusai wrote: »
    Why not mount them symetrically on either side of the window? .
    +1 locate them symmetrically in reference to you seated positions on both side of the kitchen opening. If you have 6.1 run the 2 back speakers in series or in parallel.
    engtaz

    I love how music can brighten up a bad day.
  • kuntasensei
    kuntasensei Posts: 3,263
    edited September 2007
    Actually, I'm using an older BTech BT-7 mount now, from back when they were plastic. They only angle down about 10 degrees, which is why the one pictured there was modified since that pic (i.e. I cut a chunk of plastic out) to make it drop down to about 30 degrees. However, it's mounted with drywall anchors, so I'm not super confident about how long that sucker will stay up there. :)

    The reason I don't want to mount it on the other side of the window is because those two seats under the projector are the main listening positions. It's hard to tell from the picture, but the center of the room is basically the right side of the window - the window isn't centered in the room. The couch has actually been pulled a few feet away from the wall since that picture.

    I did a little stud-finding just now and these black dots show about where I can put the Omnimounts:
    backwall2nc9.jpg

    That placement actually would put the distance from left rear to left surround and right rear to right surround within 1 foot of being the same, so I think that will give me good panning across the rears (though I may have to bump the THX distance between rears to the >3ft setting). I'm leaning toward tweeters to the outside with them in that position, since I think that would give the best coverage.

    Does this look okay, or am I making this all harder than it should be?
    Equipment list:
    Onkyo TX-NR3010 9.2 AVR
    Emotiva XPA-3 amp
    Polk RTi70 mains, CSi40 center, RTi38 surrounds, RTi28 rears and heights
    SVS 20-39CS+ subwoofer powered by Crown XLS1500
    Oppo BDP-93 Blu-ray player
    DarbeeVision DVP5000 video processor
    Epson 8500UB 1080p projector
    Elite Screens Sable 120" CineWhite screen
  • kuntasensei
    kuntasensei Posts: 3,263
    edited September 2007
    engtaz wrote: »
    +1 locate them symmetrically in reference to you seated positions on both side of the kitchen opening. If you have 6.1 run the 2 back speakers in series or in parallel.

    I ran it 6.1 before because that's what my Onkyo 601 receiver had. I now have an Onkyo 705, which is why I'm changing it for 7.1 and trying to make it look better. I'm replacing my front RTi28s with some RTi70s I bought, and moving the 28s to rear surround duty.
    Equipment list:
    Onkyo TX-NR3010 9.2 AVR
    Emotiva XPA-3 amp
    Polk RTi70 mains, CSi40 center, RTi38 surrounds, RTi28 rears and heights
    SVS 20-39CS+ subwoofer powered by Crown XLS1500
    Oppo BDP-93 Blu-ray player
    DarbeeVision DVP5000 video processor
    Epson 8500UB 1080p projector
    Elite Screens Sable 120" CineWhite screen
  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited September 2007
    Personaly i would place them on either side of the windows or on stands.
    HT setup
    Panasonic 50" TH-50PZ80U
    Denon DBP-1610
    Monster HTS 1650
    Carver A400X :cool:
    MIT Exp 3 Speaker Wire
    Kef 104/2
    URC MX-780 Remote
    Sonos Play 1

    Living Room
    63 inch Samsung PN63C800YF
    Polk Surroundbar 3000
    Samsung BD-C7900