VioletGiraffe
Novice Member
Hello everyone, another newbie here building his first home theater system. I have a 20 m2 room, and the layout is such that I cannot place the sofa too much towards the center of the room in order to have enough space for the rear speakers. There is about 42 cm between the back of the sofa and the wall (or about 50-55 cm between my head and the wall), so I have to put the rear pair speakers against the wall (maybe not literally, I'm thinking tall floorstands, but still). To make matters worse, one of them will have to be almost in the corner of the room (but not exactly).
How does this affect my choice of the speaker system? Do I need to limit myself strictly to forward-firing speakers in the rear (in terms of the bass reflex port location, that is). Or maybe rear port is OK if I plug it with foam or other stuff? Or is it not that big of a deal? I have had a few different stereo speaker kits in the past, but never with rear-firing ports, so I genuinely have no idea what effect this will have (and lately I've been preferring closed box speakers, but I don't know of any closed box system suitable for a 5.0/5.1 home theater installation, with floor-standers for the fronts and matching center and rear speakers).
How does this affect my choice of the speaker system? Do I need to limit myself strictly to forward-firing speakers in the rear (in terms of the bass reflex port location, that is). Or maybe rear port is OK if I plug it with foam or other stuff? Or is it not that big of a deal? I have had a few different stereo speaker kits in the past, but never with rear-firing ports, so I genuinely have no idea what effect this will have (and lately I've been preferring closed box speakers, but I don't know of any closed box system suitable for a 5.0/5.1 home theater installation, with floor-standers for the fronts and matching center and rear speakers).