Statment Speaker Placement

[brausch]

Thinking about building some mini statements for mains and surrounds. Before I do so, I wanted to check on the intended placement and make sure it would be alright. Here is a preliminary layout of the space I plan on finishing.



I should have plenty of room for the mains, but I was wondering if the surrounds need more room. Disregard any studs in the way of the speakers - they will be behind an AT screen.

I should mention I know the room layout isn't optimal by any means - therefore I am not expecting the world out of the setup. I just want a good sounding set of speakers to go with my open layout.

An additional question I did have was about shooting sound into a corner like shown above. Is that going to cause any huge headaches?

[ThomasW]

Yes the corner will be problematic, as is having listening positions where one's head is immediately in front of a wall.

Do you really need/want to give 1/2 the best acoustic space to a poker table?

[brausch]

I guess the reason we have that layout is to make sure both couches have a decent view of the screen. We often have people over for football games and general entertainment and one couch just isnt enough sitting room.

Here is a layout from earlier.



This plan leaves less room for the main speakers, and leaves me with few options for the surrounds.

Maybe I just need to convince my wife that a riser is the only feasible option for making the layout work. Her thoughts on a riser is that it limits the conversational opportunities with created by having couches in an 'L' configuration.

[ThomasW]

Are you making a home theater, or a 'rec room'?

[savage25xtreme]

i'm with you, think stadium seating! put the chicks in back so they can chat it up

[brausch]

This is not going to be a dedicated home theater. Rec room would be the perfect way to describe it. I want to keep it open for decent sized (15 people) superbowl parties, etc.

[brausch]

I am still working on the layout of the basement, but had a question about the surround speakers. I was originally planning on building some version of statements for all speakers. But I am worried about the placement of the surrounds - I just dont think I have the room required (even for the close monitors).

I was thinking about purchasing some surround speakers that have a slimmer design. Maybe the Emotive ERD-1's...I was just wondering if they would sound okay for surrounds, or if there are better options to match the front statements.

Here is a floor plan I have been playing with ...


Not sure I really like it, but my hands are kind of tied with the furnace and stairwell locations. You can, however, see my predicament regarding side surround speaker placement...just not really a good place to put a bigger statement speaker.

Any questions/comments are very much appreciated.