Bouncing Rear Surrounds of Back Wall

[zachd73]

I recently got a front projector installed and my friend who is handy helped me out. While we were at it I decided to have him help me move my surround speakers down a foot.

I have two semi-cheap JBL bookshelves for surrounds. They were mounted about 3 feet over ear level above my couch. The couch backs up to the rear wall so they can really be behind the listener much at all, instead they are directly to the side.

I felt that they were so high over my head they were not very effective.

So as I was watching him move them down I thought why not move them down and face them back towards the wall at about a 45 degree angle down and to the back.

In theory, the sound will now bounch off the back wall and be almost directly behind the listener at ear level.

I didn't get to try it out yet as I haven't hooked all the speakers back up yet but I'm anxious to see if this crazy scheme works or not.

Anyone tried it? I can't imagine I am the first person to have thought about doing this either out of necessity or for the hell of it.