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In Reply to: HT speaker advice posted by tsranga on November 3, 2000 at 17:04:58:
I have a similar layout at my house with the kitchen extending into the family room. With kids and a dog I would wall mount all four speakers. If you bolt steel stands down you will probably pay more for stitches and vet bills than your speakers cost.
In the price range you are talking about, putting them out on stands isn't going to make your wife notice the difference one bit.You must have a wall in the front that you can mount the bookshelfs/mini monitors on. Even brick can be drilled into relatively easily. Check out the mounts at pinpoint-mktg.com several can be directed a full 180 degrees and up to 20 degrees down. You can paint any mounts that are not available in white with your house wall touch up paint to match your walls. Speakers under 10lbs don't need stud mounting and can go right into drywall. Anything above that you are pushing it.
You can even shop a little on white speakers for the front (Polk makes some) others too. You can then either use dipoles on the side walls at the side/rear of listening area (they come with wall mounts)as they are designed for. They don't have to be directed at the listening area to be effective. Most available in white. Dipoles will give you a better difuse sound. Or use whatever direct bookshelf speakers you want mounted on the side walls a few feet rear of the listening area with wall mounts directed in and down towards the listening area.
If you want some bang in the system hide an inexpensive subwoofer someplace.
One bit of advise in all this is pull your carpet up from the walls and lay your wiring for everything down with masking tape between the pad and the tack strip (cut it 1/2" with utility knife if you have to) and pay someone $50 or $75 to kick the carpet back into place and run the (white) wire up the wall. Radioshack has 16 gauge wire for the rears in white to run up the walls to the rear speakers. For the fronts if you want heavier wire paint it. They wanted a fortune to run the wires thru the walls at my house.This is very meat and potatoes do it yourself. If you can afford a professional anyplace in this please use one.
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- Re: HT speaker advice - Rob A. 00:17:33 11/21/00 (1)
- Re: HT speaker advice - tsranga 15:14:09 11/28/00 (0)
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