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I've been looking around for info on mounting options that would best suite my room. Because of the shape of my room I have only 2 options

1. ceiling mounting
or
2. rear wall mounting.

My problem is with the fact that my couch is only 5" away from the rear wall, so essentially I would be almost underneath the QS8's if wall mounted.

because of the nature of these speakers, would this be a placement problem or would ceiling mounting be a better option?

See my Illustration

thanks,

Steve

From the picture it appears you could go with the placements indicated in option one w/out having to ceiling mount. If that's a wall by the right surround, mount it there. For the left you could do some sort of twisted wall mount as afforded by a flexible mounting device like Axioms Full Metal Bracket. While you may not be able to get it fully sideways, it would be close.
In fact, I think I'm going to do something like that - looks be damned.

thanks for the opinion...

My system just arrived today (I'm still at work though)

I did buy the new brackets "just in case" this situation did happen. my most important concern is sound reflecting off walls or ceilings from too close of a placement.

To completley change the direction you're going, why don't you put your TV along the short wall in your room?

This would be amuch better setup than you have now in regards to seating distnce from TV and in speaker placement. It would probaly create a much wider, and possibly better soundstage than what you are going to experience in the current setup. You would also to be able to position your surrounds in a mcuh better spot, slighty behind and above your listening position.

Just something to think about for you.

It would be ideal placement situation in a perfect world w/o a wife and a solid oak entertainment center that costed me over $4k. I guess there are compromises in life and I am just gonna have to play the cards I was dealt..LOL!

Well, I guess I can understand that.

Just do it one day while she is out and see how she reacts!

Or are you saying that the entertainment center is built in at its current location? I can understand how that would be difficult to move then.

Well Now I have to get stands for the QS8's my wife quashed the idea of celing mounting. After she saw 8 HUGE boxes arrive at my house she freaked and told me the Axioms were an eyesore.

Like anyone in this situation I had to go into "justification mode" and tell her why the speakers are so big - ( we had a Bose AM15. Step 2, I had to use the guilt trip. Third I followed up with a promise of a 7-day cruise this summer! She said she was gonna put plants on top of the M60's to conceal them! She saw the surrounds and said that there was no way they would be in the ceiling.
Funny thing is last night she told me that she definitely noticed the difference in the center channel (vp150) she said she could actually hear the dialogue without straining her ears. So we'll see how everything goes this weekend

Yeah, I'm seriously giving thought to doing mock ups of the speakers so my wife can see how big they are... Even though I've got my own money, she has to live with the things in the living room.

see guys...
this is why i'm never getting married

But the give and give and give, then take it before she changes her mind, of a marriage can be so rewarding.