[Rambo4]

Hi, thought I would chime in with a thread regarding my trials with a long battle with poor room setup. After being disappointed with the overall audio quality in my theater room I have set about to change up the positioning of my entire front speakers.

Originally, my two bookshelf speakers were attached to the wall with bookshelf speaker wall mounts. Roughly 11 feet apart and toed in an inch from the back wall, and each a foot from the corner of room. My center channel was positioned in the same way in center over the projection screen approx.. 7 feet in the air. As I enjoy listening to music as well as movies, this setup, I came to realize, just would not do, no matter how much Auralex I added. So thinking it was my speakers, I visited a high end audio shop and they allowed me to bring my bookshelves along to do a audio quality comparison in their shop. I was pleasantly surprised to hear that the speakers were no where as bad as I thought, in comparison.

Armed with this knowledge and their suggestions I have now removed them from the walls, contrary to the original installers recommendations, and will have my entire front array of speakers a few feet away from the walls, place them all on stands, approx. seven feet apart. This will also allow the center channel to be in closer proximity to the horizontal line of the bookshelf speakers. I did a little test run and I am VERY impressed with the audio improvement to these speakers. As soon as I am finished drywall patching, painting, building a center channel stand, and putting velvet curtains up on either side of the screen, this room will be done!

If anyone has had similar experience with speaker placement, please feel free to comment.