| Re: Helper Woofer Location [message #77059 is a reply to message #77058] |
Sat, 22 June 2013 12:23   |
dheflin44
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Location: Carrollton, TX
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| Wayne Parham wrote on Sat, 22 June 2013 11:55 |
Try that and see how it sounds. You can always try the other way too, with mains outboard, but I think it will probably sound better with them inboard. But again, if you can do constant directivity cornerhorns, those are even better still.
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Unfortunately, I don't have anything to try it with yet. In fact I just sent you a PM for more parts. I'm just doing some planning and looking ahead.
I can't pull the 4PIs inboard at all without blocking the screen. I just wanted to see how big a deal it is to have the mains outbound, and also if they could be right in the corner (if needed they can come out into the room away from the front wall).
I have thought about the 7PIs, but at their normal distance from the corners they would also get in front of the screen. If I remove the doghouse in the back, how much closer to the corner can the 7PIs get without significantly affecting the sound?
-Darrell
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| Re: Helper Woofer Location [message #77062 is a reply to message #77061] |
Sun, 23 June 2013 16:33 |
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Wayne Parham
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Registered: January 2001
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It's hard to say if that will be too low or not. It always seems to me the most realistic impression is created when the speakers are generally the same height as the screen.
Sometimes, if the screen is a little above the listeners, the speakers don't need to be quite as high, but I don't like it when the sound comes from too close to the ground. It's not a problem for hifi, but for home theater, when trying to give the impression that the sound is coming from the images projected on the screen, they can't be too far apart.
Can you maybe set some speakers on makeshift stands (books, milk crates, etc.) and give it a try to see if the realism seems right?
I hate to sound like a broken record, but I'd put cornerhorns in that room. I'd do whatever other compromises I needed to do to make that happen. I don't know of any other configuration that does what constant directivity cornerhorns do. You can come close with matched-dierctivity two-ways and flanking subs, but the clarity and imaging of midrange of constant directivity cornerhorns is stunning, and just can't be matched. Flanking subs mitigate a problem, but constant directivity cornerhorns completely eliminate that problem.
So I'd shrink the screen to fit the sound system. That's just me.
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