I guess I just realized that the axiom QS brackets only provide a couple of inches of clearance from the wall... so I wouldn't really be able to tilt them in that much, if at all. Also, if I tilted one tweeter down toward the couch some, the bottom driver would then be aimed away from the listening area.
Maybe I should try the QS stands, or maybe I should just live with it the way it is until I buy a house hopefully within the next year. I really don't want to bring the speakers down as low as the stands would.
Terz,
I believe only the ceiling mount FSB have any concern about closeness. From the QS8's on 'wall mount' FMB's, they seem to tilt to maybe 45º if memory serves. In your case, against the back wall, tilting would make the lower woofer, reflect off the back wall, maybe right at your ear level.
Like Zimm, I always figured in theory, the tweeters tilting down, were still going off to the sides. I would look at the 1st reflection point and think they would reflect down to the carpeted floor. Keeping parallel like Randy's now, I guess I could see in theory, the extremely directional high frequencies might just remain above ear level mostly, at least through the first few reflections. Hmmmm... You guys are making me look at tilting them down slightly. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the high frequencies, even more than the mids. reflect just like you'd expect a pool ball to bounce off the cushion. The angle the ball or sound hits the surface, is the same angle it reflects off at.
For my rear ceiling mount set up, as I'd imagine would be mostly true for all rears, it might work like this:
Right rear surround tilted so L tweeter points at ear level of the left side of center of the sound field. The R tweeter would point towards the wall (or open space if no wall), and either reflects off the floor or the very bottom of the front wall, and then the floor. Hmmmn... This would tell me to forget about the L tweeter hitting a listener (who in never there anyway!) in the left of the sound field. Maybe start by making my best eye ball guess at how the 'pool ball' would reflect off the side wall, then front wall, then ?surface. Doooouhh! I gues you just stick it up there and play with it! (the speaker I mean).
Randy, did you give any more thought to brackets or maybe wooden wedges for a tilt in your set up? Have you been toLOwes to see if they had the Omnimounts. Sometimes a mfgr will show a chain as carrying their products, but the chain, or that store doesn't get the memo. ;o)
