4/14/2011

Speaker Placement For Your Home Theater

By Penny Dufas


Whether you're planning a financial budget home entertainment system, or working with high-end A/V gear, paying attention to the location and positioning of your respective speakers usually settles with a big improvement in sonic performance. If you are along the way of selecting home theater speakers, knowing the basics of speaker placement may help you have the most suitable choice on your specific room.

Keep in mind that you'll find a lot of variables involved in order for there to be a single "magic spot" that's always best. Every speaker has different sonic characteristics, all the rooms has different acoustic properties, and everyone's ears hear sound a little differently. So utilize tips presented in the following paragraphs as guidelines, but when referring time for it to actually put in place your speakers, let your personal ears function as the final judge. And don't forget to learn to read the owner's manual that came with your speakers - manufacturers sometimes offer model-specific ideas for ideal placement.

Your center channel speaker

Your center channel speaker work better first speaker you set in your home theater room. Since your center channel speaker's job is to anchor dialogue along with other on-screen sounds on the screen, its position is determined by where you put your TV.

Place your center channel directly below or above your TV - centered, when possible.

Whether it's atop your TV, be sure the speaker's front edge is strictly aligned using the front side of your TV screen. This reduces distortion a result of sound reflecting and diffracting off the TV's cabinet. If possible, the height of the center channel speaker's tweeter ought to be close to the height of the front speakers' tweeters - ideally, within about 24" or less. Should you be placing the center channel on a particularly low cabinet where this could certainly be a problem, then you can definitely also employ your center speaker's cradle (if it is included with one) to angle the sound up towards your listening position.

Your center channel speaker ought to be precisely the same distance from a listening position as your front left and right speakers.




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