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Never thought of this Good to try, but may not be ideal solution aesthetically..
Asthetics depends on how the whole thing is constructed . The box can be kept small as bass is not a requirement in a surround duty .
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Never thought of this Good to try, but may not be ideal solution aesthetically..
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one sentence. very bad off-axis response.
movie theaters don't use speakers like horizontal center speakers.
those are horn speakers to have better off-axis coverage to wide areas. These horizontal speakers will fail terribly in theaters.
yep, those do have compromises.
A coaxial speaker, pointed at listening position is best for ceiling. That will give you a circular coverage for multiple rows and multiple seats.
movie theaters don't use speakers like horizontal center speakers.
those are horn speakers to have better off-axis coverage to wide areas. These horizontal speakers will fail terribly in theaters.
Hmm..I think there are some pointers that one need to be aware of before considering angled surrounds (or) mounting the speakers in the ceiling, which robs the charm of object based audio at the same time limits your experience to 5.1/7.1..
If there is going to a compromise for every other speaker/ speaker location in some form or the other, i guess it is better to live with it..
There is not much to confuse. Although, some manufacturers will come out some designs like horizontal centers or angled baffle surround speakers. Those do put constraints. Like Horizontal center speaker has always been a compromised design, however, it met the criteria to have a speaker which will lie flat above or below TV. But its a compromised solution nonetheless.
Same with angled surrounds. We all toe in our Left/Right speakers. Would you prefer if some manufacturer releases a speaker with front baffle already toed in? Would people prefer that? Obviously not. Because everyone's toe in angle will be different.
Same principle to surround speakers. I would rather angle the speaker to the best angle that meets "my" purpose/taste.
I don't want speaker manufacturer to make that choice for my room and lock me into it.
For someone using a HT in living room, above solutions might not be feasible..Angled surrounds might just be the best compromise is one of my reasoning.
Let us take this example for surrounds..
Most users have surrounds at a distance of 5- 7 feet on either sides of the listening position.. Let us assume one has mounted the regular surrounds 3 -4 feet above ear level and trying to aim to his listening postion and hits 25 degrees tilt angle...
Assuming angled surrounds have a 20 degrees tilted baffle and mounted in the same place as above, how much is a user missing in the loss of 5 degrees tilt? may be not much..
surround channels should not be aimed at the listener or listening position,infact they should be aimed at the center of the room or opposing each other as per dolby recommendation,so here 20 or 25 degree tilt angle is not required.
The theory is always 2 or 3 feet above listener's head to feel the true ambience effects and never hit our ears directlyr/s