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I currently use the the qs8 for my surrounds. My placement is pretty much dead on for the correct placement of all speakers according to the drawings for surround that I have seen. My rear speakers I have not purchased. I am planning on mounting these from my ceiling about 2 feet behind my listening position about 4 feet above my head. In short would it be better to use one of the bookshelf type speakers in these two positons or should I continue to use qs8 or does the qs4 work ok here? I wish I could figure out how to post pictures that way everyone could see how I want to do this.

I would think Qs would be perfect. Ms may be too directional that close.

Another vote for Q's at that distance, although directionals would probably be OK as well. If you want to email me a picture I will host it for you. Take my first name, which is john, add the first letter of my username, one of those "at" thingies and the name of my ISP, which is interlog.com.

If a web crawling script can get my email address out of THAT I will happily read their spam.

JH, if you have room, about 4-5' behind you would be better than 2'. Also, they shouldn't be directly over your head, if that's what you mean. Separate them widely enough so that one is definitely to the left back and the other to the right back of the listener(s). If you can do that, either type of speaker should be adequate, but M2s should give a little more precise localization of effects in movies intended to be in the rear. With back surrounds in play the side surrounds should be directly to the sides of the listening position.

I have about 5 or six feet behind me, but the problem is I drilled the holes in those places so I am pretty much stuck with them unless I tack the wires up and run some along the ceiling, which I don't plan on doing because of how bad that will look. They will definitely be separated left and right by about six feet, but they will be rather close to where I am sitting. I can move my love seat up a little to help, not sure how much that will help. I guess a major question would be. Will adding the two rear speakers add that much more to my experience of feeling into the movie?

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I have about 5 or six feet behind me, but the problem is I drilled the holes in those places so I am pretty much stuck with them unless I tack the wires up and run some along the ceiling, which I don't plan on doing because of how bad that will look.

JH, if you haven't already, you may wish to go to the local home improvement store and see if they carry a product called "Cord Mate." It's white platic channeling that has an adhesive on the back. While it's not the end all-be all, it certainly looks much better than tacking bare wire to the walls. I have used it myself to run wiring along above the baseboard and thought it looked quite good actually, barely noticeable. You may find that an appropriate solution.

I’d go with the Q’s. You have a similar situation to what I’ve got. I’ve got the M3’s in the SB locations and I’m going to swap them out for Q’s as they are just too close.

Whatever you do, definitely go with back speakers though. The 6 and 7 channel sound is way cool. There’s not a lot there, but enough to make it worth while. I’m enjoying the hell out it. Audioslave at around 100 db’s in 7.1 is better than apple pie and ice cream.

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Audioslave at around 100 db’s in 7.1 is better than apple pie and ice cream

What, Mike, you some kind of communist or something?

Just never had a really GOOD apple pie?

JH, how far back is the love seat from the TV? In the pics it looks pretty far back ...

I'm thinking (if you have sufficient space) about maybe moving the couch in front of the love seat, leaving the rear QS's in place for back surrounds and adding a second pair of QS at the 90 degree location (side surrounds) from the couch and elevating the love seat by a few inches?

Of course it all depends on whether or not you have the required space.

Thanks to Brigman for posting the pics for me. I been trying to post those to have people give me ideas as to where to put bass traps or acoustic treatments in the room to help out with sound. I for one have no idea if those things would help my sound in the room. Anyway, my ideal idea for the room is to actually build a risor for the love seat and put the couch up front or vise versa. The room itself is 24 feet. I think the love seat is 15 feet from the tv so I think I could in the future move the couch infront, but the way the walls are built I think I have to have the speakers behind me to the left and the right. In the future I plan on putting a projector right above the love seat about 1ft behind it so that will give me an additional 2 ft from the screen. Biggest problem I have is that I have a very small house. I have nowhere to put that awesome tv and I don't want to sell it. OH well guess I'll have to build onto the house so I'll have a room to put it in. I really want the total theater feel. I am close as it is, but I hooked a projector up from the school this summer and it made the room into a theater. So far I am very happy with the room that my father and I built out of my basement. Anyway more suggestions would be wonderful. Ideas??? Thanks again to brigman for posting these for me.