I am having problems hearing my surround speakers. Mainly, I am overpowered by my front speakers and barely hear the surrounds. I can hear them find when a plane flies over head but I can't hear faint sounds. Prior to having the projector/screen where it is, I had it set up with my big screen with the TV where the Loveseat is now. The surrounds where mounted on either side of my sitting area about a foot higher than my head and I hear every little noise that came out of the surround speakers. Now I hear practially nothing.
My huge problem, as you can see from the diagram of my basement/theatre room is there is an open area to the left of my surrounds and a bar area behind my surrounds so I am losing a lot of sound from both. I have the surrounds ceiling mounted with the base of the QS8's about 5 feet off the floor. I also have them angled down at about a 45 degree angle in an attempt to get more sound pointed toward the seating area.
I tried mounting them off to the side of the seating area but I could not hear the speaker on the opposite side of where I sit. If I turn the volume down on the front speakers and turn it up loud like I hear it, my stupid Onkyo receiver blows and goes into "Protect" mode and shuts off.
Any advise would be great as I am out of ideas. The good news is I will be moving a year to year+half so I only have to deal with this for a while but it would be great to get to what I had.