Can rear speakers be setup like this?

[saint0]

This is my first HT setup.

Because of the layout of the room, I am forced to setup the speakers like this horizontaly (see attachment) The dimensions of the room are proportional to the the image, which are:

Depth: 23 feet (7.1 meters)
Width: 11 feet (3.4 meters)
Ceiling: 7.6 feet (2.33 meters)

On the vertical plane, the Rear speakers would all at the ceiling's height, while the Front speakers will be at viewer's ears height. I am guessing it's preferable that the Rear speakers be angled slightly downwards towards the viewer?

I know that the optimal thing would be to have RR and RL on both sides of the Sofa, but I can't do that for this specific room (I mean, I could, but I would have to do some major structural modifications, don't want to do that)

So my question is if this setup would work ok?

 

[Exit]

The layout looks ok to me under your constraints but I don't think I would bother with the rear center channel since the left and right surrounds are on the back wall anyway. If you already have a back center then you night as well use it though.

 

[no. 5]

That is almost exactly how my system is set up, so I'm going to say, yes it will work.

And yes, angling the surrounds down would be a good idea.

 

[Midcow2]

rears at ceilng heght.

I have my surround rears in the ceiling and they work fine. Good Luck

 

[ParadigmDawg]

Me too.....

I have my surround rears in the ceiling and they work fine. Good Luck