How to accomodate those who do not sit at the *sweet spot*

[Shafted!]

Here's a quick rundown of my home theatre (warning poor ascii art ahead!)



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|F1| |TV/C| |F2|
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| Co2 |
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|s1| |co1| |s2|

Legend: F = front speaker, TV/C = center speaker/tv, S= Surround Speaker, Co = Couch.

The F's and S's are JBL Speakers, with the S's being much smaller. Currently they aren't on stands, but are on two side tables. They are also not behind the couch, but in line with it. in addition, the tweeter is about a foot or so below a person's ear. When the speakers are facing each other, the person sitting in Co1 is lucky because he gets the full effect of the sound, however, the people sitting on Co2 gets to hear sound in the rear, but obviously it isn't as clearly directional as the person sitting in Co1.

What i've done is instead of putting the speakers facing each other, i've placed them on their backs with their speakers firing upwards. It seems to have helped a bit for people in couch 2, but is there anything else i can do to improve the soundstage?

I'm pressed for cash until next month, so anything *free* would be good advice.

Thanks,
S!

[Shafted!]

Grr. Co2 should be on the right side....

[stevevt]

Originally posted by Shafted!
Grr. Co2 should be on the right side....


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:)

[Shafted!]

Sadly, i did edit it. The first draft was fubar'ed up also, and i couldn't get it to move over.

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|s1|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|co1|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|s2|

I used ctyner's sugggestion in this thread (http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=198228) to make it work.

[macsax]

It's not a free solution, but the best thing for this room would be to build a riser for co1 and put co2 in front of it for terraced seating...just kidding. Actually if you can get brackets and mount the speakers higher up, angled down to the listening area this should help. By increasing the distance to that speaker nearest to co2 you can eliminate some of the bias. Keep them at least a foot away from the ceiling and the same or more from side walls. Unfortunately there is no easy or good way out. On their back is not the best way to go. mid and high frequency sounds are directional and can smear this way messing up the overall effect.