Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Are the QS8's the right for my room?

Looking to upgrade my surround speakers.
My room is 24 feet wide by 26 feet deep with 12 foot high ceilings. A very large open rectangle; carpeted, one row of 4 home theater recliners.
Front 3 speakers are all Klipsch Ultra 2 KL-650's. Would love to get the remaining Ultra 2 set up of KL and KS surrounds, but can't afford them right now.
I sit 13 feet away from a 120"x67" AT screen.
My seat is approximately 13 feet away from all of the surround speaker positions. Almost dead center in this room.
I am looking for 4 surrounds that will fill this large room with surround sound, as close as possible timber match my Klipsch fronts, and make the hair on the back of my neck stand up during movies like LOTR, Star Wars, Hellboy, ect. I'm a big SciFi/Action Adventure fan!
I have the Onkyo 805 A/V receiver and Sunfire Cinema Grand 5x250 watt/channel amp running the show. The Sunfire powers the LCR and side surrounds, while the Onkyo powers the rear surrounds.
Now for the hard part. I have to find all 4 of these surrounds for close to $1000 to $1200? .
Thanks for the suggestions.

Welcome to the forum!

Four QS8s will run you a little under $1,000 if you get the from the factory outlet.

QS8s are considered by many to be the best surround available and the factory outlet speakers are all new, with very minor cosmetic blemishes at the most (yet many of us can never even find the "blemish"!

Well, you can easily purchase from the regular price, or via the factory outlet and save 10%, and still be at your budget.

My room is 30ft x 31ft x 9ft ceilings and the Qs8's are the best surrounds I've ever heard. No bookshelf can compare for surround purposes.

The question is where do you intend to mount them, on the ceiling 12 up, or do you already have locations run to your walls?

QS8s are a bargain at reg price imho. I'm cheap, I bought them through the FO.

Thanks everyone.
sirquack- your room is a bit larger than mine and I'd like to hear more about how the QS8's fill your room with surround sound. How far away from the side and rear surrounds are you?
Are you able to localize any of the surround sound, ie can you tell where the speakers are once the lights are off?
Any more info/experiences you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
I already have speaker wire run for the side and rear surrounds. The side surrounds are located directly to the sides of my prime listening position, just a tad bit back, say about 100 degrees or so. The rear surrounds are pretty much directly behind me and are 16 feet apart. All surrounds are about 8 feet high off the floor.

The QS speakers are amazing little jewels, just today I was listening to a concert DVD and heard a slight cough from somewhere to the back of me, thought for sure my son had walked in and coughed but it was actually from the disc.

I don't believe you'll ever be able to locate these speakers if properly placed and calibrated, they are unbelievable surrounds.

My 4 QS8's are on order. I LOVE to hear these kind of reports! I sure wish the M80 club would stop 'dissin their M80's though.

Who's dissin their m80s? Easily the highlight of my system. Also it's easy to over think speaker placement, but with the QS8s it's really pretty easy. Since it fires in so many directions, there's a lot of fudge room I've found. I just have mine up on their stands about 3 feet away from the sides of my couch.

My wife and I have run into our usual disagreements on where to put the surrounds (QS8's x4) in our work in progress basement, supposed "man-cave",(deep-sigh). I have to agree with StuntGibbon, as well as the majority of QS8 owners here, these surrounds are amazingly forgiving with placement. I feel confident that if i can find a reasonable place, maybe not ideal for placement they will work just fine.

Due to the usual basement limitations for location/placement in our last residence, my QS8's were in some cases, too high, too low, too far back, and too far forward (that's all four I think) and they sounded great regardless. When, however, the movie called for the sound to move sequentially around you, thats exactly what you heard. Not in a localized segmental fashion, but in a natural ambient flow of sound that just seemed natural and full. For (my favorite) music/video concerts, the concert hall sensation was there, including people coughing and talking around me, to the clinking of ice in a glass being prepared at the bar. Great stuff.

I'm confident that where ever I place these speakers, within reason, they will not disapoint.

Mr. U,

My HT portion of my room is basically 1/2 of the room, the other side is for the pool table, bar, drums, etc..

I have 2 rows of seats with 3 seats per row. From the primary seat, front center, the side surrounds are probably 9ft away, and the rears are about 7-8 ft, all 7ft off the ground. If I was to do it over again, I might go a little further back on the rears, for the folks in the back row. They would work fine further away, as you setup the receiver for distance and levels.

Axiom's design of the Q's was to simulate the lined speakers on the side/rear walls you see in theaters. Because of the quadpolar design having tweeters firing to the left/right, and 2 woofers firing up/down, all in phase, the sound wraps around you. It is not like a bookshelf speaker that is directed right at you.

So, if you surrounds are 13ft from you, your saying the left/right surrounds are 26ft apart, and the rears are 13ft behind you, and 16ft apart (5ft from the side walls?). The rears might be spread out a little to far, but I'm sure they will work. My rears are spread out about the same distance as my mains are apart, around 12ft or so.