Rear surround speaker direction

[walter duque]

Since I have limited space for my 7.2 System I have my rear surrounds right behind the listining area. Now I have them facing forward, should I lay them down so they fire up. Would I be missing anything by doing that? What would be the best way to go. Or should I move them higher up.

 

[agarwalro]

The only thing I can think of is to move the couch forward a bit and leave the speakers as they are.

 

[walter duque]

The only thing I can think of is to move the couch forward a bit and leave the speakers as they are.

The livingroom is to small for that. In my house I used the rear surrounds as my surrounds and my towers as rear surrounds, they where about 6-8 feet behind the couch, that was a true surround sound experience. I think the best thing for me to do is move. I hate moving.

 

[just-some-guy]

while have never heard a setup like that. i would have to say its horrible.

i would :
move the surrounds to the side, and raise em up.
and mount the rears to the ceiling or close to it, facing down.
or even loose the rears.

 

[markw]

honest opinion?

You can't fit a 7.x system in that room. Until you get more room, I'd suggest you furlough the rear surrounds and raise the r/l surrounds to above ear leve and face 'em somewhat downwards.

 

[Highbar]

You can't fit a 7.x system in that room. Until you get more room, I'd suggest you furlough the rear surrounds and raise the r/l surrounds to above ear leve and face 'em somewhat downwards.

Couldn't have said it better myself. There just isn't enough room in there for all those speakers. I would drop the 7 and just go with 5. You might be surprised, it may sound better. Most things aren't in 7 channel anyway, I'm looking at a stack of Blu-rays and only 3 YES 3 of them are 7.1 the rest are 5.1. A good amount of what you are listening to from the rear surrounds is just matrixed off the surrounds, not worth it to me.

I'm guessing that 5.2 would sound incredible in that room and forget moving. Heck get an integrated receiver and use your second set of towers as a second system. Give that a listen and let us know what you think.

 

[walter duque]

All good ideas, thanks guys.

 

[fast1]

You can't fit a 7.x system in that room. Until you get more room, I'd suggest you furlough the rear surrounds and raise the r/l surrounds to above ear leve and face 'em somewhat downwards.

i think this is a very good point

 

[walter duque]

Should I remove the rear surrounds and leave the towers which are designated rear towers build in mirrow image, I am getting a little confused. If I go 5.2 should I run the rears as surrounds or surround rears?

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[Highbar]

Can you get us a bigger pic of the room? From what I can see in the pics that are up I think you would be ok just spacing out the towers a bit from the sofa. If there is space on the sides and above ear level to mount the speakers you have as rears now you could give them a try, but I can't tell if there's space. In a 5.x setup you want the surrounds above ear level if possible and directed at the listener.

 

[walter duque]

Can you get us a bigger pic of the room? From what I can see in the pics that are up I think you would be ok just spacing out the towers a bit from the sofa. If there is space on the sides and above ear level to mount the speakers you have as rears now you could give them a try, but I can't tell if there's space. In a 5.x setup you want the surrounds above ear level if possible and directed at the listener.

I would like to use all speakers properly. The system sounds good but I am sure with the proper speaker placement it could sound even better
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[MatthewB.]

The problem I see, is that the speakers you have are waaaaay overpowering that space. You do not need large towers in that close a proximity for surround duty. If I were you I would take out the side towers altogether (maybe place them in a secondary or bedroom system) then take the speakers behind the couch, place them on the side walls high up close to the ceiling. Then calibrate with a sound meter. The problem is having the rear speakers fire directly into your head defeats the entire purpose of having rear speakers and that is non directional spatial sound (something you aren't getting at all right now) Tis better to have an awesome 5.1 system then a mismanaged 7.1

 

[lsiberian]

I would just raise up the rear speakers and aim them down.