Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 Aug 29, 2008 12:07 pm Hi everyone,
We are currently in the process of building a house with Carlisle Homes, I'm having a dedicated home theatre room dimensions 4.2 w x 5.5 l, and am planning on having a 7.1 speaker setup. My question is with the 2 surround and the 2 rear speakers, what is the ideal height that they should be? On the rear and one of the side walls there are slimline windows 514mm high, the ceilings are 2740mm high, and the top of the slimline window is at 2173mm off the ground, would the speakers be better placed below the slimline or above it? Thanks in advance Mal Re: Surround Speakers - Ideal Height? 2Aug 29, 2008 4:47 pm According to THX, for 5.1 the original spec was that you wanted your left and right surround speakers on the side walls facing each other, about 3 to 4 feet above ear level and about 1 foot or so behind you.
As the 2 rear surrounds on the back wall in a 7.1 setup are really there to smooth the panning of sounds around the back of the sound stage (as well as centre some effects that are meant to sound directly behind the viewers), they should be roughly evenly spaced between the left and right surrounds at the same level. If you have environmental issues that prevent you from achieving this ideal setup, you really only have 2 options: 1. You can do what I did - Alter the environment to allow yourself to put them in their ideal places (I had windows moved (at plan stage) to allow ideal placement of my surrounds). 2. You can put the speakers as close as the environment will allow you to get to this ideal arrangement. Whatever else you have to do, try to keep them symetrical. Re: Surround Speakers - Ideal Height? 3Aug 29, 2008 5:02 pm Thanks Rodda,
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