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Home Theater Design: Optimum Speaker Placement

The standard theater arrangement is of these lines you can identify the optimum
course a screen at one end of the room, home theater placement for the front
with one central speaker, one speaker to right speaker.Repeat for lines angled 90
each side of the screen, two speakers degrees to the left, 90 degrees to the
providing surround left and right, and right, and 180 degrees (a continuation of
sometimes a speaker providing surround the line from viewer to screen, but in
rear. If you have your room arranged this reverse). With these lines, you can
way, chances are good that you call it identify the optimum home theater
your home theater, and speaker placement placement for the surround left speaker,
is fairly straightforward for you. The the surround right speaker, and the
ideal placement has the front speakers at surround rear speaker.Ideally, the front
the same height from the ground, usually left and right speakers should be placed
either slightly above or slightly below at the same distance from each viewer, as
the display, and the surround speakers at should the surround left and right
least 60cm above the heads of the speakers. This will normally not be
viewers.The front center speaker should possible to achieve, so it should be
ideally be in the same position as the approximated. Far more important are the
screen; the front left and right speakers speaker placement angles for each viewer,
should be placed approximately 25 degrees which should ideally not be more than
to the left and right of the direction about 15 degrees away from the optimum
the viewers face, and about the same position. Optimum home theater speaker
distance from the viewers; the surround placement depends on minimizing the angle
left and surround right speakers should error for each viewer.Your subwoofer
be 90 degrees to the left and right of could be placed theoretically at any
this direction, and, again, about the point in the room, because the ear cannot
same distance from the viewers; and the easily determine the direction of
surround rear, as its name suggests, low-frequency sounds. However, you may
should be directly behind the viewers. A find that positioning the subwoofer at
subwoofer if used can theoretically be different parts of the room change the
placed anywhere in the room.For many sounds from the subwoofer; some
people, and I include myself in this, the frequencies may be amplified, while
design of your home is such that it does others may be reduced, especially if the
not comfortably permit a room set up in subwoofer is placed near a wall or corner
this way. After all, unless you are very of the room. It is suggested that you
lucky, the chances are that the room that experiment with the placement of your
contains your home theater equipment subwoofer until you find a position that
doubles as your living room, and you will you like.Some other considerations may
not want it to be dominated by a screen. affect the position in which you place
You may not wish to call it your home the speakers. You will not want your
theater as such. To solve this problem, speakers in a position where they
you need to draw a scale diagram of your obstruct a path that is regularly walked
room. Add your intended screen placement through, e.g. too close to a doorway.
to the drawing, along with the seating Also, if you do not have
arrangements (your sofas and chairs), and magnetically-shielded front speakers,
identify where people will be sitting they should not be placed too close to a
when they watch movies, and the direction cathode ray tube (old-style) TV, because
in which they will be looking.The next they will cause the color purity of the
thing you need to do is to draw a line display to be affected. This does not
from each viewer directly to the screen, apply to LCD or plasma televisions. Using
which shows the direction in which each this approach, you can successfully place
viewer faces. Then draw a line angled 25 your speakers in such a way that you can
degrees to the left of the line you have be proud of your home theater and of your
just drawn from the viewer, for each living room at the same time!Always
viewer, until it meets the wall. If the remember that the idea behind home
speaker is placed anywhere along that theater is to set your system up so that
line, then it will be at the correct you can enjoy movies to the fullest. Some
angle for the appropriate viewer. You people lose sight of this goal. Whatever
need to identify a point along the wall you do with your home theater design,
fairly close to the position at which don't fall into the trap of
these lines reach the wall. This will over-analyzing your results. Start
usually be somewhere near the middle of enjoying those movies!David Thomas was a
the collection of lines. You have then design engineer in an acoustic field for
identified the optimum home theater nine years, and currently runs many
placement for your front left speaker.You information websites. His sites cover
now need to do the same thing, but angle many topics, and a directory is available
the lines 25 degrees to the right of the at Why not visit one of his sites today
direction in which the viewers face. With that covers home theater design?




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