5.1 Rear speaker direction?

[williamgauci]

Here's a question I've been wondering about for a couple weeks now. When I bought some RTI6's for my fronts, I moved my RTiA1's to my rear channel and I built some custom shelves to mount them on my side walls. Putting them on stands wasn't feasable. So I have the A1's now on shelves mounted a couple feet behind my seating position a foot or so higher than my couch. However, the room extends about another 20' behind where my home theater is setup. The entire area is in the shape of a large L. So the question is, should I have the rears pointed perpendicular to the wall so they're pointing towards each other, or how I have them now, which is toed in about 25 degrees pointing the speakers towards my seat? I assume since they are mounted so close to the wall I shouldn't be pointing them parallel to the wall pointing to the TV. I attatched I diagram in case I am not making sense. :)

[apphd]

How's everything sound? As far as I know the A1s are front ported so I think the toe in you are using is probably the best, at least where I would start. Try the other options you have (probably should re-cal, at least if you make it permanent) and go with what you like the best.

[comfortablycurt]

I have mine toed in so they're crossing in about the middle of my room. I don't know if that's considered ideal or not, but it sounds good to me.

I've been meaning to play around with placement a little bit though actually. I've been reading that ideally you want them about 2-3 feet behind your listening are, and about 2 feet above ear level, pointing directly at each other. I'm gonna go watch a movie in a little bit, so I'll try repositioning them like that. I'll report back later with my results.:)

[apphd]

From Dolby Labs:

38560

[joeparaski]

Here's a question I've been wondering about for a couple weeks now. When I bought some RTI6's for my fronts, I moved my RTiA1's to my rear channel and I built some custom shelves to mount them on my side walls. Putting them on stands wasn't feasable. So I have the A1's now on shelves mounted a couple feet behind my seating position a foot or so higher than my couch. However, the room extends about another 20' behind where my home theater is setup. The entire area is in the shape of a large L. So the question is, should I have the rears pointed perpendicular to the wall so they're pointing towards each other, or how I have them now, which is toed in about 25 degrees pointing the speakers towards my seat? I assume since they are mounted so close to the wall I shouldn't be pointing them parallel to the wall pointing to the TV. I attatched I diagram in case I am not making sense. :)



I'd move the bar in front of the seats or the seats behind the bar. If you put the bar to good use you shouldn't hear any difference in sound quality.:p

Joe