Centre speaker placement.

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Hi all,

At present i have a bose acoustimass AM10 mkIII set up with the twin speakers. I am looking at buying the monitor audio R90HD10 set up of speakers and am told that the centre speaker must be placed horizontally under or above the screen.

Because i have the bose speakers, i have the centre speaker to the side of my fireplace positioned vertically and wondered if i can put the MA centre verticall in the same position to cover the old fixing holees or must it be placed horizonal.

any thoughts please.

 

[Anonymous]

what I would do is buy 3 matching fronts and mount the center vertical

thats how it should be anyway

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Greybagsred,

The speaker should go in line with the centre of the screen.

 

[bretty]

I wouldn't get hung up on the 'rules' of surround speaker placement, mate. Try it with the centre by the fireplace. If it sounds good there, then great. I can't see any reason at all why mounting it vertically rather than horizontally would impact on the sound.

Good luck with it.

 

[richardw42]

I really would try your utmost to get the centre speaker as near to the screen as you can. Either directly above or below.
I don't have to try it myself to know how weird it would seem putting the centre off to one side. Remember centre is primality for dialogue or centre effects that would appear on the screen
BTW just got got some R90HDs for rears. Lovely little speakers.

 

[Jammoe]

As long as you can try it without potentially losing any money (ie. buying something that isn't gonna sound right), go for it and see how you get on.

I temporarily had mine under the left side of the tv and it sounded fine; it depends how offest it is.

 

[Anonymous]

I think the clue is in the name, after all it isn't called a "slightly off to one side speaker".

 

[Andrew Everard]

If I had this kind of location problem, I think I might consider some larger left/right speakers and run the system in phantom centre/no centre speaker configuration.