PSB Speakers 6919217 - Manual (Page 8)

All distances
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All distances are equal
5.1 surround speaker placement 6.1/7.1 surround speaker placement
Speaker Placement — Maximizing Your Enjoyment
Proper loudspeaker placement is an essential ingredient to getting the
best sound from your high performance stereo, multi-channel audio or
home theater system. The goal is to reproduce faithfully the audio
soundtrack the movie director or music producer created without calling
any attention to the speakers themselves.
Fortunately, it is a straightforward process that just takes some care and
patience. Should you have a large room and the possibility to arrange
the room as you wish or if you are designing a room for home
entertainment refer to the diagrams shown here for ideal speaker
placement. In this arrangement all speakers (except the subwoofer) are
placed the same distance from the listener. In most cases, you’ll need to
adapt your speaker placement to a given room that’s less than ideal.
Here are a few speaker placement basics to keep in mind as you get
started:
A. You will generally get the best imaging and other spatial qualities if
your front left/right speakers and your usual seating position form
an almost equilateral triangle, with the speakers not quite as far
apart from each other as they are from you. If you must sit closer
to one speaker than the other, use the Balance control on your
electronics (or the individual level controls on home theater
channels) to give the more distant speaker a balancing boost in
volume.
B. Our tower speakers are designed for optimal listening from the
seated to standing position. For our monitors, we offer accessory
speaker stands to achieve the right height if you are not using
existing shelves or furniture.
C. The best high-frequency dispersion, producing the widest “sweet
spot” in which you and others can sit and enjoy optimum high-
frequency definition, will result when your main speaker
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