All of this is a "balancing act"! The seats and speakers must all work in harmony, and in relation to the room boundaries, ideally - it all works together (or against each other, if not adressed properly).
You can put a speaker where you "think" it should go, for any number of reasons. You might feel, for instance, that placing a speaker in a certain plane dimmension, in relation to your seat(s), might give you better immaging or "steering", let's say. But then that very well might put a given speaker in an acoustically challenged location, fundamentally - destroying the overall sonic qualities of the speaker. So, in this case, you might be placing the speaker where you like the overall immaging to be anchored -and yet the sonics coming from that speaker might SUCK! - defeting the purpose of accurate, high fidelity sound, and a well balanced system. This is something I would avoid, personally. But then I know that quality sound from all the speakers working together in a system yeilds quality hi-fideilty system performance! And the oposite effect is a bunch of poor fidelity sound from un-balanced speakers in a system, pulling the sonic entegrity of the system down with it - not good.
If I were you, I'd start by figuring out how many seating positions you are dealing with, how you'd like to set them up, lay out the room, and or what your seating/listening lifestyle for the space will be. When you figure that out, you can then place the speakers accordingly. Also, if you have some sort of AV pre/pro with at least a good Parametric EQ or, better, the Audyssey room DSP correction processing, you will be able to balance out your system very very tightly and accurately, AFTER you properly place your speakers for best fundamental performance, and or any acoustical treatment considerations and applications!
First, let us know your proposed seating layout, and then more accurate assistance can be offered. Otherwise, for instance, if you're placing your couch on the back or sidewalls, let's say, where you place your speakers and how you adress your system as a whole will dictate different options and mandates opposed to placing seats in the middle of the room, and such!
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You can put a speaker where you "think" it should go, for any number of reasons. You might feel, for instance, that placing a speaker in a certain plane dimmension, in relation to your seat(s), might give you better immaging or "steering", let's say. But then that very well might put a given speaker in an acoustically challenged location, fundamentally - destroying the overall sonic qualities of the speaker. So, in this case, you might be placing the speaker where you like the overall immaging to be anchored -and yet the sonics coming from that speaker might SUCK! - defeting the purpose of accurate, high fidelity sound, and a well balanced system. This is something I would avoid, personally. But then I know that quality sound from all the speakers working together in a system yeilds quality hi-fideilty system performance! And the oposite effect is a bunch of poor fidelity sound from un-balanced speakers in a system, pulling the sonic entegrity of the system down with it - not good.
If I were you, I'd start by figuring out how many seating positions you are dealing with, how you'd like to set them up, lay out the room, and or what your seating/listening lifestyle for the space will be. When you figure that out, you can then place the speakers accordingly. Also, if you have some sort of AV pre/pro with at least a good Parametric EQ or, better, the Audyssey room DSP correction processing, you will be able to balance out your system very very tightly and accurately, AFTER you properly place your speakers for best fundamental performance, and or any acoustical treatment considerations and applications!
First, let us know your proposed seating layout, and then more accurate assistance can be offered. Otherwise, for instance, if you're placing your couch on the back or sidewalls, let's say, where you place your speakers and how you adress your system as a whole will dictate different options and mandates opposed to placing seats in the middle of the room, and such!
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