Just had to chime in, we have a 7.1 system, and I had built stands (3' tall) for our surrounds (bookshelf). This was a good ear shot, height wise, no matter where they were placed in the room. As the front end of the system has evolved we have re-aranged furniture, and recalibrated every time. It has allways sounded good, but, yesterday our new furniture arrived, so here we go again. Last night for room sake, I ended up mounting the surrounds on shelves up near the ceiling, and OH MY, what a difference. I calibrated, we watched some dtv. I realize going from fabric to leather will change sound reflections, but, with the way it is set up now it feels like it "pulls" you into the action, and I guess that's what it is all about. Had I realized height would have had so much bearing on this I would have done a lot more experimenting in the begining. It's just easy to hear the benefit of each new piece, set it, and be content. I like the fact that for once I picked up a large sonic gain and didn't have to spend 1-2k to do so. I realize there are many who allready know this, but to those who don't, do yourselve's a favor and experiment, and maybe unleash a little more of your'e existing systems potential. Pretty Cool.
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That's great to hear Soundhound. :T
The benefits of "good" speaker placement, is nothing short of amazing. And as you stated, if more people would address this issue in depth, there wouldn't be as many equipment upgrades....maybe??? :B"I have come here, to chew bubblegum and kickass. And I'm all out of bubblegum!!!"
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The ZDT3.5 taught me a lesson... at first I thought it was aggressive sounding at high levels, since my Neo8 / Neo3 design sounded better at any listening level.
Here's the room they were in.
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I hope I picked an appropriate forum to post this.
I need some advice with center channel speakers. What I’m looking for doesn’t seem to be available for any price. commercially or DIY.
First a little background. I have no experience designing or building speakers. I am... -
I have a few rudimentary questions that I'd like to ask. In each case, I thought I'd try to do it such that they are easily searchable and provide a useful resource for non-expert speaker builders. Here's the first question:
Let's start by assuming that you are looking at woofers for... -
Guess I'll start with my setup so far and what I plan to do. So far I have a pair of RP6000F's run by a Denon X3500H(7.2 / 5.2.2). I ran audyssey XT32 room calibration. Kept the XT32 room Eq. But disabled the dynamic stuff, dont really need volume control. I planned on getting pair or rp500m for surround... -
I will be moving next month and have some questions from you guys.
Issue #1:Room Layout
The living room is 12x12 if you just count the space designated for living room; however, if the room is layed out long ways, there are no barriers from the dinning room which allows...
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