Speaker Placement and boundary problems

[Uniquely]

This is an awesome thread Rich..... thanks! I've been trying to work through a lot of this myself in the past few weeks.

I'd like to share pics of the changes I've been doing and my thought process behind them. If some of you guys have some time to look and give me feedback that would be great!



OK, so I started out with my Klipsch F2's in the front and S1's mounted to the wall behind my couch.

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ingroom027.jpg

Then I found some Klipsch F1's for a pretty good deal one day so I picked them up and put them in place of my S1 surrounds. You can barely see the F1 in the lower right corner; my photography is not so good but hopefully you get the picture

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ingroom002.jpg

I was thrilled with how much better the towers sounded than the satellites I had, but placement was a serious issue. Too close to sound their best, and also crowding both the entrances to the room that flank each side of my couch.


So I thought it would be better to go ahead and move those out to the outside walls and ended up with this. Hopefully these shots give you an idea of just how long and shallow a room I am working with....

This is my right side

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t.../51or71001.jpg

and left side

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t.../51or71002.jpg

They sounded better with a little more space from the couch. Each one is about 7 ft from it's end of the couch. I couldn't put them parallel with the ends of the couch because that would totally block both entrances, so each are slightly forward from the ends and toed towards the ends of the sofa.

This is how they look when seated in the center of the sofa


http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...p/sides001.jpg

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...p/sides002.jpg (this one looks like it is right against the wall but there is about a foot behind it)


Since I had to run new wiring for those, I went ahead and put my S1's back up right where I had them to see what 7.1 was all about. I really didn't find much of a difference. I am sure that is due to the width of the room and the lac of separation on the ends.

I did have one more thought about how I could make 7.1 work in my room though.

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t.../51or71003.jpg

Between each of the candle holders and the emblem, I could hang a section of my home made acoustical tiles; and then mount my S1's to them and angle them down as sharply as I can. I could get away with moving my sofa up probably about 2-3 ft before I really start to hurt the end viewing angles of my sofa. I could hide the wiring behind my tiles.

I hope that wasn't too convoluted or time consuming...... and if anyone has any suggestions for better placement or sound treatment locations absolutely share.