Need Advice: Building A System Piece-by-Piece On A Budget.

[F1]

[QUOTE=recoveryone]Sorry F1 I have to disagree with the statement (speaker to High) Higher placement allows for wider sweet spot. For his room it may not matter (only 11' wide) but I'm sure he won't be sitting in the middle everytime.
If a sat setup is the route he's going placement is KEY. I would suggest that the front and rear are the same level so the sound will be uniform from all directions. My logic comes from the spec's of HT speakers being about 2-4' above ear level, not at ear level. Average person sits at 3' from floor level (ear level) then speakers should be 2-4' higher.
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I'ts alright to disagree, my wife doesn't agree with me eveytime... While it may be true that higher speaker placement allows wider sweet spot but front speakers need to be directional. I was assuming that his TV is also placed at eye/ear level so placing the speaker at ear (or TV) level is the better one. Imagine if an action is panned from left to right then the sound must follow from left to right, not from high left to high right, right? Meanwhile the higher speaker placement for surround is correct to avoid directional sound and creating more 'diffused' sound, which many people prefer. Anyway let him play around with the speaker placement and decide which one works better.
Boss is coming, bye..

[recoveryone]

I know the feeling, I've been married for 19 years. I have my fronts mounted 7' high and the center sits on top of the TV (which is about 5' high) and its sounds great. Good panning, and that why I said angle down fronts about 15 degrees. just MHO