If it s possible and your room is wide enough i tend to prefer doing the set up on the long wall.
Speaker placement in square room.
The listening position is back against the far wall which gives a measurement of approx.
If you have the misfortune to have a square listening room as in the previous setup diagram f create golden rectangles in the rear corners of the room.
I recommend starting with this and then backing up the speakers to the main wall as needed for adding a little bass reinforcement back into the sound and making room for other furniture if needed.
This gives you the best surround sound experience.
The problem with corners is that typically you only have one speaker that s placed there.
Building a dedicated home theater room.
These speaker placement guidelines can give you a renewed sense of realism and detail that may have been hidden in your room.
Speaker placement in a dedicated theater room follows the same guidelines as above except for the speaker height.
1 5 times the distance the speakers are apart.
Your speakers can then be placed along lines extending from the outside rear corners through the inside front corners diagram g.
If your room is a rectangle the speakers will ideally face the length of the room so place your desk by the shortest wall.
Stay away from corners whenever possible you want to move your speaker s out of a corner.
Due to similar ratios of boundary distances larger sound waves in the lower midrange and bass regions will have a loading effect and cause tonal imbalance in sound reproduction.
Square room placement the least desirable listening environment is a square room.
Since you re not using the room for anything else you want each speaker at ear level or slightly higher when seated.
Placing the speakers on the short wall on the narrow dimension of a rectangular room is going to limit the width and the overall soundstage size to a certain extent.
Speaker placement in a square listening room by george cardas.
This is my favorite placement recommendation and at least in my room isolated the sound from the room very well as close to listening outside as i ve gotten.