SV Sound SCS-01 Placing your SVS speakers within your room, Setup and room integration, SV Sound

SV Sound Chapter 4-2 Speaker Placement

Placing your SVS speakers within your room

As you unpack them, you will notice a variety of ways to securely place your speakers inside you listening room. You can put bookshelf speakers them on optional stands or brackets, and of course, bookshelf and center channel speakers can also be put on any convenient shelves in your home.

Setup and room integration:

So, there are many ways to put these speakers someplace in your home. However those particular places will have a significant impact on the sound heard at your primary listing posi- tions. Again, where possible, try to keep speakers roughly the same distance from the floor. Using a combination of speaker stands, brackets or shelves, should allow center-channel speaker and main channels to keep the tweeter/woofer

assemblies at the same level.

The next Chapter shows a top view of a room in 5.1 channel surround sound installation and then a typical 7.1 chan- nel setup. Notice the speakers are away from back and side walls, and they are angled a bit so that a convincing sonic ―image‖ is achieved even if you use your system for two channel stereo music. When optimized for your room, you should be able to hear sound even to the right and left of each speaker, which enhances the spaciousness of the front ―soundstage‖.

Note the location of the ―rear‖ speakers in the next Chapter as well. Also called ―surround speakers‖, they tend to be the most difficult to place in rooms. Higher placement, using brackets with downward tilt (aiming towards the listening area) is often required and is an ac- ceptable compromise when speaker stands are impractical. Con- sider foot-traffic in your room and ensure you, children or pets are not likely to tip over your SVS speakers, or alternatively bumping their heads on our rather stoutly built speaker cabinets!