Some advice requested for placement of speakers in 5.1

JorisS · 07-11-2009, 3:38 PM

Hi all,

looking for some advice regarding how to setup/install the satellite speakers in our 5.1 setup in the living room - afraid the room has a pretty poor shape for the purpose, so I'll just have to make the best of it

I've attached some photo's and a scetch of the room layout:

Speaker system I'll be using are the Quad L-ite satellites with center and a big Velodyne sub that will probably be muffled under the table between the two couches.

I've purchased wall mounts for the satellites, the centre is already sorted. Main question now is whether I should mount the satellites directly besides the TV (and if so, at what height? does it matter much for sound or is it mostly cosmetical? try to have them exactly in the middle of the TV's height? - problem is light button on right side though... *suck*). Or should I instead mount them further off from the TV, so the front right ends up on the other side of the opening to the kitchen? In that case put the front left further out as well? Problem is that when sitting in the 3-seat couch this would probably work, but if sitting in the 2-seat couch one would mostly get sound from the front right.

In fact I'll be having similar problems with the rears, but those aren't as dominant in the overall sound image I guess...

Any advice/opinions appreciated, feel free to take and edit any of the photo's or the scetch!

Cheers
//Joris