I am interested to know how everone sets speaker angles, I have read that the center (above tv) should be angled down slightly towards you ears, which got me thinking now how about the mains and rear centers and surrounds, should these be angled towards the seating position or just in straight lines. I have a full set of energy veritas speakers if it matters, any info would be great!

R, the "best" is to angle every speaker so the center of the tweeter is pointing directly at the listener's ears. That's the theory. In practice, it's hard for several people to share one pair of ears. Besides, most speakers have a fairly good dispersion pattern, so it's not critical.

Mine are toed in somewhat, and my center, even though it's below my screen, is not angled up. it's just barely below sitting ear level. There is definitely a sonic difference between standing and sitting, so there is truth in the angling.

Larry
www.fineelectricco.com

R,
hi there. I've been messing around with the speaker angles recently myself, and the sound from the centre speaker when sat beneath the TV on the cabinet shelf is relatively muffled. By comparison, when sat above the TV and angled down towards my head, it sounds vastly more open and detailed. The rears I haven't really messed with; they are dipoles so one side face the rear wall and the other into the room, on Atacama SE1000 stands. These are just above ear level when sat down and work really well. The mains are just toed-in normally towards me. Check out the related knowledge base article at http://www.dolby.com
cheers,
Dan.

Hi R,

My mains are raised off the floor until the tweeters are the same height as my ears (no vertical tilting required), then "toed in" (angled horizontally) until they fire directly at my listening position.

The center is on top of the TV directly in front of the listening position (no horizontal angling required), then tilted down until it fires directly at my listening position.

The main surround speakers (direct-firing, no dipoles/bipoles) are directly to the left and right of the listening position (no horizontal angling required), six feet above the floor. I tried tilting them downwards towards the listening position, but did not like the "yelling in my ear" sound. So they currently are angled vertically halfway between the listening position and firing "straight out", which diffuses the sound nicely. I plan to replace these with dipoles in the near future.

The rear surround speakers (also direct firing) are six feet above the floor, along the 15-foot back wall at the 5 feet and 10 feet points. They are tilted, both horizontally and vertically, to point at the listening position.

Hope this helps! -Bruce ;-)