How to Select the Right Home Audio System for Your Needs (Part Two) The Placement of Speakers

Continuing where ‘Part One’ left off, now that you know what types of speakers that you need to buy for optimal home audio enjoyment, it is time to touch on how to best place those speakers that you just bought for optimal audio clarity. We feel that most people will shy away from technical aspects that are least understood by the masses. So, we have striven, with this four-part series, on trying to keep the language as normal and as easy to understand as possible. What follows is how to place your speakers and how to determine what speakers that you find are actually worth buying. Courtesy of all of us audio nuts out there!

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The Placement of Speakers
The placement of your speakers is essential to your home audio needs for the best delivery of sound. Most 5.1 surround systems will come with 5-6 speakers that can really make your movie experience shine, if you know where to place them properly. There are some simple tricks that you can use to place your speakers effectively around your living room to maximize the audio signals that are being driven to your ears. Here is how.

Free Guide To Practical Home Speaker Placement

Center speaker:
You want to always place this speaker either on the top of your television set, some TVs have a flat screen and this is not possible, in this case place it below, in the center of your TV, so that the sound will emit towards you from the center. The center channel will direct all center signals to the room, and therefore needs to be centered.

Front Left & Right Speakers:
You want to make sure that these front speakers are always placed left and right corresponding to the signal that is being delivered to them, don’t put the left speaker on the right side of your TV. You want the speakers to be at least 6-8 feet apart from each other and you want the facing directly towards your couch. Make sure that there is even space between your left, right and center speaker for optimal sound delivery.

Surround Speaker Placement:
You want to place your surround speakers at least 2-3 feet above the ear level of where you are seated. You ideal want them positioned along side and towards the rear of where the back of your listening area envelops to create the optimal soundstage for your ears. Surround systems with to extra surround speakers can also have those extra satellite speakers wall-mounted for optimal audio clarity.

How to Place Speakers and Setup a Home Theatre
The good guys at ‘Best Buy’ demonstrate, in this instructional video that we found on the popular video file sharing website, Youtube.com, how to place speakers and how to effectively setup and connect your new home theatre system. While we always recommend shopping around online for your home theatre needs, as the internet doth bring us the best deals to be found ever, this video can serve as a great reference point for what professionals deem the best way to install and setup any home theatre system with multiple speakers for optimal sound. Use the advice in this video to properly setup your home theatre system and effectively place your speakers.