Home Theatre Speaker Placement: Improving Your Home Theater Experience

Do invest in a large amount of your savings or a small part of your budget on your home theater, the placement of your speakers will play a major role in sound quality and sonic performance in home theater room.

Instructions that came with your speakers will provide a recommendation for places to put them in the room but below are a few things to consider when you start preparing your new home theater speakers.

CENTER CHANNEL SPEAKER
The main purpose is to anchor this speaker sound on the screen, such as dialogue.

Tips for the placement of center channel speaker:
1. Center directly above or below your television.
2. If you put it on the television, the front edge of the speaker should be lined up exactly with the front edge of the television. This will cut down on any kind of sound “bouncing around” inside the television cabinet.
3. Tweeter from certain speakers should be at the same height as the tweeter from the front speakers. If you can do it in 24 inches, which will allow for the best sound quality.
4. Front speakers and the speakers should be spaced a certain distance equidistant from your listening position is planned.

FRONT SPEAKERS: BOTH LEFT AND RIGHT
These speakers have two different purposes. They reproduce stereo music sound while also handling the movie soundtrack.

Tips for front speaker placement:
1. Find your optimal listening position. Now the space of two front speakers at points in the same room is the distance that position, with one left and one to the right. The right front, left front and center channel speakers should all be roughly the same distance from where you sit, with the tweeters of each directed at your ear. Do not just look at this and get the approximate distance, even an inch variation in the distance of the speakers can make a real difference in sound quality of your home audio system.
2. Tweeter speakers’ need even to your ear level when seated in the optimal listening position. Speaker smaller home theater can be mounted on a wall or placed on a speaker stand. Floor standing speakers usually have this included in their design.

SURROUND SPEAKERS
The purpose of the surround speakers to provide low and high noise levels from other parts of the room, creating the impression of cinema in your home theater. Surround speaker placement will depend on the size of your home theater, a room, and space needed for the actual speaker. Be creative and experiment with the placement of these speakers, especially around the room.

Tips for the placement of surround speakers:
1. Place the main partner to the right and left of your optimal listening position. This can be done in line with your position or just behind it. When the placement to the side is not possible, or when you have a surround system with more than two surround speakers, you might want to put speakers behind the listening position, with the sound directed to the front of the room.
2. These speakers should be placed at about ear level when you are in a standing position.
3. Experiments with the aim of the speaker when mounted on the wall. Sometimes good results can be achieved when you point them at the ceiling or back in the back corner of the room.

SUBWOOFER
A home theater subwoofer home audio system provides you with all the low bass frequencies that are needed for a movie theater, surround sound experience. However, one of the most difficult to position. In most cases, you can position your home theater subwoofer anywhere in your home theater and still get good results.

There is no one “perfect” placement for any given home theater speakers. No two rooms acoustics’ will be the same, all speakers will have different sonic characteristics, and no two ears will hear any given sound identical. This does not mean you will never achieve the best sound quality from your home audio system. All it means accepting the advice given and modify when you actually install your home theater speakers to accommodate your specific needs.