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• Place your front-center speaker either directly above or directly below the display.
If you have a large display and the front-center speaker must be placed above
head height, better results may be achieved if it is mounted upside down (high-
frequency transducer towards the floor) and slanted slightly downwards toward the
listener. Next in order of preference would be to place the center speaker on its side
in either location. If both of these locations are impractical, and especially if the
left-front and right-front speakers are located far from the display, the front-center
speaker can be located directly to one side of the display (this location isn’t optimal,
but may work reasonably well in some situations).
• If your location permits it, the ideal arrangement is to place your left-front and
right-front speakers on stands away from both the front and side walls. They should
be placed such that the left-front, center-front, and right-front speakers form an arc
equally distant from the central listening position.
• Side surrounds are typically mounted above head height and approximately even
with the center of the listening position.
• Rear surrounds are located, as you might guess, at the rear of the listening
position, and are typically mounted on brackets on the rear wall above the listening
position.
Listener
Center
Left Side
Surround
Right Front
Display
Right Side
Surround
Left Rear
Surround
Right Rear
Surround
Sub-woofer
Left Front
Listener
One example of placement for
surround-sound speakers
