How best to achieve surround sound in an strange-shaped room

silvine

I recently purchased a Sony DDW890 with 6.1 sound.

I am going to mount the speakers on the walls in the coming days and am unsure how best to do this.

I have attached a drawing of my room with possible speaker positions.

Any help is greatly appreciated


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silvine

Here it is. Thanks.

Idleater

what is wrong with what you have drawn?

the surround and fronts are subjective, so the only one that really makes sense to be specific about is the centre, which should be "at" your display.

For aesthetical reasons, I'd line up the surround L/R and Centre Rear in a row.

you could turn the room through 90 degrees too

silvine

I've the surround speakers down on the floor behind the couch at the moment, facing up so the sound bounces off the roof.

I read if you put them too near your listening positioning it localising the sound and ruins the surround effect. Because of the small size of my room on the floor seems to work.

Idleater

silvine wrote: »

I've the surround speakers down on the floor behind the couch at the moment, facing up so the sound bounces off the roof.

I read if you put them too near your listening positioning it localising the sound and ruins the surround effect. Because of the small size of my room on the floor seems to work.

I'd have thought that being surround (effect) speakers, that they are directional, and localised, by design. Therefore, what you are doing is bouncing the (eg) right read sound effect off the ceiling to the other side of the room.

Why not mount them on the wall, and point them down (inverse of what you have now) but in this case you are aiming them at the target as they are designed for rather than away from it?

silvine

I was listening to various effects last night and it certainly doesn't sound like it is being bounced off the ceiling. The effects sound like they are coming from beneath the couch. I placed them up on top of the couch and the noise in my ear from the rear speakers overpowered the front ones. I think my room is a little small to have them mounted properly.

As for on the roof well would they not look a bit strange up there??

Idleater

silvine wrote: »

As for on the roof well would they not look a bit strange up there??

I don't know how big they are, so in that case "it depends".