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Multi Ch. speaker placement tips needed


Hello all,

I’m initially setting up a 5.1 system in a < 14ft x < 21ft < 8.4 room. Closed off 100%, save for AC ducts. The ceiling gently slopes up to 8.4 then back down, to about 7.9 ft.

All the speakers are Silverline Audio… Sonata IIs; Center stage; SR 15; Velodyne DD 15. If I add to this config it will be a pair of Minuets for the middle surrounds and another sub for the rears… that has yet to be decided though.

Center surrounds will need to be set onto the side walls if done at all.

Center and mains are set to the < 14ft wall.
Where is the center to sit? On the same plane as the Mains? Or behind them? How high off the floor?

The rears are on Sound Anchor stands and the tweeters are right at ear height, 48 – 80 in.

If I go ahead and add the senter surrounds should they also be set as the rears in height?

Higher? Making for a hemispherical config?

Lower? Making for an increasing slope up to the rears?

Thanks much for your experiences & interest.
blindjim
blindjim OP
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with no wife, kids, cat or dog, the main seating position well be a touch short of center room, closer to the front speakers.

I haven't made the exact measurements yet from the LP-VP to the front mains which will be set off the screen wall to around 48" (to the drivers)... and 24 - 27 inch off the side walls, making them about 7.5 ft. apart.

The center speaker hasn't been placed at all... but I'm guessing it will be just under the screen adn slightly in front of it, at 20 - 23 inch high stand, and no more than a foot forward of the screen, with some slight up angle.

The rears are back ported, so they'll wind up no more than two feet off the rear wall, and between 12 & 18" off the side walls.

The MAIN bit here is that 2 ch is also in the mix. Heavily.
In fact it is the predominate choice, the HT aspect is a distant second, yet remains important.

Zat help?
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blindjim OP
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Thanks Bob

I think I ran across that SVS testing description... it was on the "NSD" model. Very impressive. I'm maybe gonna change my mind from HSU to SVS based on that.

The funniest thing I saw also was a reviewer who said almost identical things about BOTH HSU & SVS models. "Best I've ever heard bar none!". that's as maybe, however, it sure struck me as odd with both makers posting his review of their respective products on their own websites.

Oil well.
blindjim OP
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Bob_reynolds

Nope.. hadn't seen that item yet. Thanks.

OK ... who makes affordable bi/di poles THAT PLAY WELL WITH other speakers?

AND CAN BE MOUNTED ONTO A WALL OR A STAND?
blindjim OP
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Soooo.... For HT all the talk of dipole - bipole is just that. Talk. No supporters huh?
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