What's the best location for a skylight?

From a non-audiophile perspective, i think that they have to be installed in the ceiling to be called a skylight. If they are in a wall, they are typically referred to as windows. Sorry, but i just hadta do it : )

While i really don't know if this would work or not, how about placing two of them right where your primary points of "ceiling bounce" would be ? You could then open them up when listening and take advantage of their natural ability to diffract the signal. Keep in mind that i'm making this up as i go along : ) Sean
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Sean, I AM LISTENING, so far it's making sense. Opening them up when I'm listening sounds like a good tweek, heavenly? I searched the threads and could not find anything. Right now, you are the leading authority...go along some more! Bgrds.

I have some placed at those points in my room and it sounds great. Give it a try!

There's not much that i can add to that other than the irregularities in the ceiling should provide "some" form of natural diffraction even with the skylight(s) closed.

Depending on how far you could open them, this could also be used as somewhat of a bass trap. The more that you opened it, the greater the amount of low frequency leakage and the less "bloat" that you might experience. You might even be able to fine tune both the frequency range and amplitude that would be most affected using your "heavenly bass trap". You could actually chart your results by taking frequency response measurements with the skylight in various positions.

Obviously, this would also play with ultimate spl levels as you would be altering the amount of air volume that your speaker were trying to load into and pressurize.

Sounds like something to check into with a LOT of potential for variables. Sorry i can't help you any more than this. Like i said previously, i was "wingin' it" for this one. Albert might know a little more since it appears that he has skylights AND has had a professional acoustician survey his room. Sean
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In an other room. Especially if you consider problems of UV fading of veneers and fabrics. For openning units add all the delights of water infiltration. Can't imagine any sonic advantage to having them in the ceiling.

Seriously consider paying for a professional (audio) evaluation/simulation before pursuing the addition of skylights.