Height of Rear Surround Speakers ???

[saurabh]

What height should be kept for rear surround sound speakers, specifically if I have to wall mount them and they are direct radiating speakers.

[brendon]

Hi,I was looking at my B&W owners guide CD and noted the following recomendations for rear speakers in a 5.1 setup.Idealy speaker tweeter to be at ear level or head can be up to 10 degrees above or below tweeter center line and the speaker may be up to 60cm above head height but closer to head height is perferable and axis of tweeter to point at head as much as practicable.
If you search back in the hometheater and spaced out threads a couple of good links for speaker positioning for various formats have been posted in the last couple of months and maybe Andrew or David may point them out if your lucky(I am hopeless at posting links!! )
Brendon

[Gordon Moore]

here's one

http://www.htguide.com/forum/showthread.php4?t=12587&highlight=height

and another:

http://www.htguide.com/forum/showthread.php4?t=10286

And another:

http://www.hometheatermag.com/bootcamp/25/index.html

http://support.radioshack.com/support_tutorials/audio_video/hometh-6.htm

[brendon]

Just had a looksee and this was one of the ones I had in mind and it is a good resource on all things acoustic (originally posted in spaced out I think)

https://www.RivesAudio.com/resources/links/frame.html

Brendon

[saurabh]

See attchd, I would mount the RS speakers on the side wall 2-3 feet above the ear level and for LS I do not have a side wall and will use the back wall mount to direct it towards the RS spk.I do not have space on the back of the sofa.

My only question is that should I be facing the direct radiating speakers towards the people( in green)/eachother or towards the TV (red). Would a better ambient surround sound be created if I face them towards the TV.

[David Meek]

Saurabh, direct radiators should point at the listening position. Di-poles and bi-poles point away from it.