Speaker Placement Guides

eCoustics has a helpful guide that will show you how to setup your home theater speakers for best performance.

An Essential Guide to Home Theater Speaker Placement

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“The goal of all speaker placement for movie soundtrack playback and multichannel music reproduction — even stereo — is a smooth, consistent and unbroken soundstage across the front, coupled with a sense of envelopment in the ambient surround effects. In other words, you’re after a sense of location, whether that is suggested by what’s on-screen, by the recording venue or even the dry, intimate acoustic of many pop/rock studio recordings.”

Stereo Setup Guide: What the Pros Know

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The goal of good, two-channel speaker placement should always be a smooth, consistent, and unbroken soundstage across the front, with a sense of front-to-back depth (when it’s present on the source recording; many dry studio recordings have no depth at all). Ideally, you should get a sense that some instruments extend beyond the left-right physical borders of the speakers.