Bay window and 7.1 setup

[Sonylids]

I am about to sort out the front room, and i need some advice regarding speaker placement.

I have attached a pic, blue rectangles are seats, red rectangle is LCD on chimney breast, front and centre speakers as indicated.

I plan to use ceiling speakers(pink circles) for the rears, currently have mission dipoles but want to blend in more.

The ceiling is coming down so not bothered about amount of work required.

Does anybody have any input, should i even bother with 7.1? When this is done it has to last for a very long time. all wires etc will be chased into walls before the room is replastered.

[durko]

Always plan ahead
Yes wire up for 7.1 even if you wont use now
A lot of bluray will come with 7.1 in future

Also I would suggest for the sake of it to bang shielded cat5 cable in, for example 2 routed from where your av kit is to where you would mount a projector (if you think sometime you may get one)
Or you may want a HTPC so cable up for that as wireless is Cr*p

You can send all signals through cat5 so think ahead and if in doubt bang some in the chances are it will be needed.

Just a thought anyway as I regret it now on my setup.

[Sonylids]

I am putting cat 6 in so this should be more future proof.

Is the positioning of the ceiling speakers okay?

[durko]

Rears should be wider maybe

[Sonylids]

I was going to put them about half a metre apart, or should it be more?

[Fulltopuk]

GO to http://www.thx.com/home/setup/speakers/dolby.html. They have good advice for placements.

[Sonylids]

I looked there, but typically it has the seating in the middle of the room, which is not possible. Hence why I hope the positioning I have shown on the attachment is suitable.

[Indecisive]

Originally Posted by Sonylids

I looked there, but typically it has the seating in the middle of the room, which is not possible. Hence why I hope the positioning I have shown on the attachment is suitable.

I have gone for a similar set-up if you look at my floating wall project and my sofa is also against the rear wall. I went for 1.5m apart for my rears so 2 viewers should hear a left & right output without obstruction. Rears on a 7.1 set-up should really be further behind the seating position so as I couldn't do that, I went for in-walls to give me that little bit of extra distance.

Is it suitable???? Well it's not THX perfect but should still give a better sound then basic 5.1
I'm not sure I would go for ceiling speakers for the rears though, they need to be behind you & at ear level. If you have them in the ceiling the sound will envelope you and you will hear from all directions and you will end up with some rear output falling in front of you.