Loudspeakers as rears?

[Prizefighter]

I dont know why people have loudspeakers as rears? Am i missing something?
Speaker footprint comes in to mind when putting these large speakers in the rear. Reason i am asking is because i am curious of the "improved sound stage" with placing loudspeakers as rears. Is it worth the extra floorspace? Thanks


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[markw]

Bookshelf size speakers work perfectly well as surrounds and rears as well. But, if one has the room and desire for floor standers. mazel tov to them.

 

[j_garcia]

Having identical speakers can give a more cohesive experience, but nobody said they have to all be towers. My previous setup were all identical too and they were bookshelf speakers.

"Loudspeaker" refers to pretty much all speakers.

 

[Prizefighter]

Ok thanks for clarifying it in my head. I meant to say towers
I will go the bookshelf route. I dont know a lot of people that can pull off towers all the way around even in a dedicated theater but if u can i guess this is certainly a worthy route to take(space wise).



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[vaf]

Typically with different cinematic and music formats only a certain amount of information/sound is sent to the rear channels. In having towers as the rears your main disadvantage is that they are very under-utilized. That is unless you increase the volume on the rear channels or run something like 7.1 or 5.1 stereo.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Typically with different cinematic and music formats only a certain amount of information/sound is sent to the rear channels. In having towers as the rears your main disadvantage is that they are very under-utilized.

Unless your towers are designed to have the LFE subwoofer bass built-in. Thus, each tower also serves as another subwoofer. In rectangular symmetric rooms, 2 of the best subwoofer placements are 1) the 4 corners and 2) the 1/4W front & rear wall placement. So 4 towers = 4 identical subwoofers @ the 1/4W placement = smooth bass + SPL increase. Here, the towers in the rears are not underutilized IMO.

Case in point is the RBH SX-8300 towers. Each tower has about the equivalent bass of one RBH SX-1010 subwoofer. Each tower is fed with LFE from the processor/AVR.

Supposedly, ATMOS/UHD/AURO may also have beefier surround effects even in 5.1 mode. So the surround speakers may one day be significantly utilized more than in the past.

But as others have said, there are many was of doing things. Bookshelf speakers are fine and so are big towers if that is your fancy.

 

[Prizefighter]

Deftechguy- we have to consider i am a blue collar working man... Just the mention of rbh as rears scares me... Although some old school deftech bp's are not out of the question.


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[AcuDefTechGuy]

Deftechguy- we have to consider i am a blue collar working man... Just the mention of rbh as rears scares me... Although some old school deftech bp's are not out of the question.

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Can't be too blue collar if you own an iPhone.

But seriously, yeah, if you can find less expensive pre-owned BP DT speakers with built-in LFE subs so you can feed them with LFE signal, it would be similar. Having 4 subs is good.

 

[Prizefighter]

Iphone 4s is blue collar, its free!
But i am already pretty happy with my low end(svs-pc12). At this point i think i value the extra sq footage in my media room vs the upside of having a tower.


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[AcuDefTechGuy]

Iphone 4s is blue collar, its free!
But i am already pretty happy with my low end(svs-pc12). At this point i think i value the extra sq footage in my media room vs the upside of having a tower.

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Many ways of doing it right. Bookshelf + subs is great too.