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!
