Great information! Dean - where should I place my M22s for width and should they be toed in? Should they be the same distance from the back wall as the M80s?
According to Audyssey the best place for the wide speakers is 60 degrees to either side of the center of your screen. In my case that put them on the side walls which worked out perfectly. Some room/seating arrangements might allow for front wall placement at 60 degrees but that would have to be a fairly wide room. If you can’t set things up at the recommended angles (see the diagram in the link posted earlier) then the next best thing is to get close to those angles and experiment to see what sounds best to you.
There is no need for the wide speakers to be the same distance from the wall as the mains. More important is getting them placed far enough outside the mains that they provide an enveloping sound field. Like I mentioned in my case that actually put them on the side walls a good 5 feet closer to my seats than the M80s. I was worried this would cause the sound coming from the wides to be localizable to the speaker from the nearest seat but that hasn’t proven the case.
Yes the wide speakers should be toed in. I believe Audyssey recommends aiming them at the center of the listening position but I found that aiming spitting the difference (i.e. aiming each one about 1/3 of the way in from the outer edge of the seating worked best for me because it provided better coverage over all my seats and not just the center.
IMO all speaker positioning is a matter of trial an error since no two sets of setups/rooms/listening preferences are likely to be the same. I would use the diagram in the above link as a starting point and then make any adjustments you want to try from there.
Your going to read a Denon manual? Good luck with that.
Cheers,
Dean
