There will be two locations within my room's seating area that are positioned on the centerline of the television (and subsequesntly will have good alignment with the L/R/C speakers. However, the rest of the seating (3 to 4 other seats) will be off-axis to the left side.
I will be ceiling-mounting the surround speakers, but have some choice as to placement:
1. I can mount the surrounds equidistant from the TV centerline, giving those 2 "sweet" seats a very symmetrical soundstage (i.e. left and right surrounds will be equidistant from the left and right ears of listeners about 10 feet separation). In doing so, any seats out of these 2 locations will be to the left of the left surround speaker.
2. I can mount the left surround speaker further left along the ceiling (5 feet further, making it a 15 foot separation), moving the surround speaker placement off the centerline defined by the television and L/R/C speakers. This will include more seating within the surround soundstage at the expense of denying the 2 former sweet seats equidistant alignment with the surrounds.
This is one of those cases where a picture is worth a thousand words, sorry for my tortured description of what is really a straightforward question...
...WHERE SHOULD I MOUNT THAT LEFT SURROUND?
A followup question, very relevant to Axiom, is whether their QS speakers are far less sensitive to off-axis positioning than a direct-radiating (i.e. 2-way bookshelf) speaker.
Yet another followup question, will certain receivers auto-setup function (I'm thinking Yammies YPAO?) compensate for this speaker placement depending on where I place the test microphone?
Thanks.
