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Trevor can you confirm an exact dimension from the listener to the back wall, sorry to be a pain.

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96" no pain.

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Any updates? Good or bad news?

Working on it as I write this...

Slow going...
Managed a few hours but only set up the front 3 and the subs.
They are exactly as drawn with exception to the co-located 3rd sub, an executive decision, and the subs being a foot of the back wall.
This should help with the ground loop hum I was getting, fingers crossed.

I did lower the towers down to the floor, they were raised about 12 inches.

Will probably keep the rear seats, the two lazy boys were already positioned with the ears 8' from the back wall. I booted out the 4 kid seats a while ago. Will still sit 4 with unobstructed views.

More another day...I came up just in time to watch my two oldest run for the bathroom, both leaving a trail of flu as they ran. Lots of fun...

Awesome job so far!

The front soundstage is the most important aspect. It looks perfect!

I had trouble lining everything up this time. Not sure why.
The legs for the screen should just fit between the subs. Just.
Catch is the gap I had/wanted on the one side will be gone. The screen will be roughly centred. No harm, it will be back where it was before I started only 3 inches further into the room.
The real issue will be setting up the subs with no access and no screen movement freedom.
I won't be able to tuck the legs under the 2x4 mounted at the bottom of the wall and it looks like I'll need to add an additional one in front of the centre tower joining both legs to keep them square to each other. It didn't matter before, I had a foot of swing/wiggle room without the subs behind the screen. It will be tight. I can move the uprights the legs are attached to but would like to avoid the extra bit of hassle, at least for now.
Will try running the receiver at +10 with the the subs at their lowest power levels, just out of curiosity, and go from there.
I need/want to drop the screen down closer to the floor so the lowest woofer can fire forward un-ubstructed.
I'll be restretching the screen this time too. It'll be nice to have a taught screen again.

Since the gain is a physical setting and preout settings are software, it might be best for setup flexibility to set subs higher and preout +/-0 to start.

Craig probably has a quick and dirty way to set sub gain levels. I measure with full band pink noise and set them 5-8db hotter than the mains. It is probably easiest to set each subs' gain one at a time since they arent matching (treat the co-located subs as one sub and set together) then set the global sub level in bass management. With both front wall sub positions on vs only one there should be a ~3db increase if all pans out at the mlp. You will just have to turn the global setting in the AVR down a bit to your preference.

Its fun if there's no hurry and beer is involved.

It's all in good fun...
It didn't work. At +10 on the receiver and with the power turned all the way down on the subs the bass is roughly equivalent to 2 towers. I turned the subs off after and listened while I grinded away.
I still have lots to do. I relocated 1 side and rear surround last night. I swapped the side and rear speakers too but didn't like the look. I swapped them back. In my last home the room was wider, the towers on stands worked well as surrounds. Here the walkway is along the side rather than across the room, it makes for a tight walkway in a room frequented by monkeys with no ears.
I might get down there tonight, later tonight.
The rooms half empty so I'll need to reserve my SQ thoughts for another day.