Speaker Placement

[redhouse]

What's up? Can anyone tell me the idea of spaker placement. I have moved mine around to a couple of places in the room and it still sounds pretty much the same. So why is 3 1/2 feet of spaceing not good? why is more spaceing better? Also what is timber? Thanks

[rs159]

Polk has some information in the library on speaker placement.

Timber is fallen wood, I believe ;)

Timbre is what your speaker sounds like. Timbre matching means using speakers that sound similar for all channels of a HT system. Most people wouldnt use Polk mains and JBL surrounds because they just don't sound similar. As things pan around the movie's environment, you will notice each speaker doing its job and not a single coherent transition. Polk has a system builder in the toolbox that should take care or voice (timbre) matching, at least for Polks.

[rs159]

Also, 3 feet is not good because its basically glorified mono. The point of having stereo mains is to get stuff away from the screen, not crowd it all together.

[redhouse]

Ok thanks, but if not in frount of the screen then where? In my setup where would be the best place for me 2 put the FL FR to get good stero sound.

[rs159]

Thats a tough one considering if you go much further your left main would be in the corner and the right main would be getting almost no boundary reinforcement. You could treat the left wall with something. Talk to mantis.

[redhouse]

Ok thank you,

[redhouse]

One more question, what's up with everyone having polkie or polkazoid or plok expert or something did you guys pick them or what.

[ken brydson]

It changes with the # of posts you have. I think it changes from Polkie to something else at 50. I hit 100 this week and it changed to Polkster

[burdette]

Those are honorable badges of wasted-corporate time, based on the number of posts you put up. You're Polkie until you hit your 50th post.. or is it 51st? Combine all the man-hours put in here writing posts and discussing audio and other topics in a week, and we could have fed a couple of small countries for a year. God Bless America! Gotta love it.

[F1nut]

It's a indication of how many post you have or sometimes your ..............character. ;) The regular ones are automatic, the special ones are from Justin and Micah.

[jkratzer]

Originally posted by redhouse
What's up? Can anyone tell me the idea of spaker placement. I have moved mine around to a couple of places in the room and it still sounds pretty much the same. So why is 3 1/2 feet of spaceing not good? why is more spaceing better? Also what is timber? Thanks

The best resource is Polk's own website. Gotta' love it.

Speaker placement:
http://www.polkaudio.com/home/faqad/advice.php?article=placement

Timbre:
http://www.polkaudio.com/home/faqad/advice.php?article=spkrchoice