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BCA · 03-21-2008, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by joseph westcott

Your planned seating distance is too close to the center of the room. This is an audio null area. Not good. Your seating distance should be 2/3 back away from the short wall (which I am glad to see you selected the correct wall for the front speakers).

7.1 is overrated. Not much material is available for rent or purchase that even provides support. My suggestion is stick to a well designed and placed 5.1 system.

It is much more acceptable to use surround speakers at a higher position on the wall. Not so for the front three channels. Rears are for ambient sound.

Any testing to see where the best subwoofer placement is?

The 15’ distance is the most I can do, and my thinking was having it there is the side speakers were mounted at the distance of the support pole. I think a more realistic spot will be in the 11’-12’ area.

The planned use of the room will be geared more towards a “family room” than a true “home theatre” with 5 out of the 7 days spent watching television on a traditional RP model. Then using the projector when watching a DVD movie on concealed pull down screen. As much as I would like to build two more walls and make it a dedicated room, my wife would not permit that.
I’m doing all of the building myself but I will probably hire out the drywall part. I have about 50% of the room framed in and I am currently at the wire routing stages.

I haven’t done any sound testing yet, but do to aesthetics; I will probably be limited to corners of the room. My current thinking is to wire for subwoofer placements on either side of the screen, and then one more in the corner of the room near the rear channels.
I could probably get away with having a subwoofer placed anywhere along the long wall as well, if you think that would be better.

Again, most of the home theatre part of the project will be a compromise of sorts; I’m just trying to make the best of what I have to work with without getting a big veto from the wife.

Thanks,
Brent