Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Weird QS4 situation

Hey everyone. Here's my situation. In the room I'm setting up in, I can mount my QS4's behind me at an equal distance and height BUT, the room's indented layout limits me to only being able to mount one on a rear-wall and the other on a (perfectly aligned) side wall. Would this work or would I be better off placing them on floor stands?

MD, a more specific description would be helpful. For example, it's unclear what "indented" or "perfectly aligned" really mean. The dimensions of the room and especially your sitting distance from the back wall might suggest that you mount both speakers on the back wall, spread as widely as possible, if this would place them not more than about 3-4' behind you.

If it were possible, I would do exactly that. Unfortunately, about 4 feet behind my seating area is a closet which comes out about 5 feet into the room from the side wall. To the far other side, the room continues, witht the back wall another 8-10 feet further down. So, my only option if I don't go with a stand appears to be mounting one speaker on the closet wall behind me (positioned front-forward like a proper rear-wall speaker), with the other across from it mounted on the side wall. I'm not sure if I'm being clear, but in essence, the speakers would be perfectly symetrical on opposite walls, but the rear-left speaker would be sideways along a wall and the rear-right would be perfectly face-out (poiting direcrtly towards the seating area) on the other wall.

Since the QS speaker design produces wonderfully tough-to-isolate sound, I'm wondering if this setup would work, or would I be creating an audible imballance between the two rear speakers?

I'm not sure that I followed the description, but if you mean that the right surround would be facing the listening position, while the left surround would be directly opposite it but facing toward the front of the room, my thought would be that the surround effect would be satisfactory.

Thanks, John! Would putting these on the QS stands give me a better experience, though? The one thing I'm not nuts about with the stands is that the height of the speakers would not be as ideal as they would be with wall mounting.

Is ceiling mounting not an option? In my home theater, I only had one wall along the left side of the room, the rest is open into a bigger room with no walls. In this picture you can see my right-side surround and my right-rear surround.

Nice setup! Ceiling mounting wouldn't work in this room, but your rear-speaker positioning is even more extreme than mine would be. Do you find the surround feels uneven or impballanced this way?

not sure what you mean by extreme? The two rear surrounds are a few feet behind the rear couch which works fine. Yes I would have liked them further back, but was unable. Now, for the front seating area, it is awesome. The side surrounds are to the sides as intended, and the rears are 8+feet back.

My rears and sides are perfectly symetrical to exact measurements to the primary listening position.

Here is a not perfect to scale drawing of my room.

Randy:
Maybe another photo that shows all 4 surrounds would help....(if you have it available)?

Ah, sorry, I had through you had one surround at the rear and the other at the side, which is what I'm looking at doing. Because of the strange shape of my room, the side speaker would be just as far behind me as the rear speaker would be, only the tweeters and woofers would be firing in different directions.

Yeah, I was wondering about that. Lots of nice new speakers in that room since the last pictures were taken.

Maybe the ebony speakers don't show up against the black walls and Randy had to Photoshop the old speakers back in.

Hey guys I know I know.....I've been very busy at work and other things.

John, you are partially right. Taking pictures of my mansfields was bad enough down there. Even with the walk out windows letting light in and all the room lights on, it was just to dark for my cheap digital camera. I had to use night mode to get the ones you see on the website, which let more light in the camera.

This week I am on-call for work, which sucks because they don't pay us, and I have to potentially take calls for other apps/servers I don't support. AND, getting calls from people in Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, etc... in the middle of the night is not fun.

I will try to get some pics soon...

MD, I'd just be guessing, of course, as to how each setup would sound in your room, but be that as it may, my preference would lean toward the height of the wall mounting rather than the symmetry of the mounting on stands. Keep in mind that the mid-woofers, which handle the majority of the sound, fire up and down, so that will be identical for both speakers in your proposed wall mounting. The tweeters will have different dispersion paths, but my thought is that the difference at the listening position wouldn't be very significant. Mount the left surround on the closet wall as far to the left as possible, to match the right surround in at least that respect.