Surround speakers in new house

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sdav

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Topic # 127422 9-Aug-2013 15:15

Hi guys,

We are building a relatively small house and will have a fairly small square shaped room. I know already which way the tv etc is going to face with the ability to flip it 180 degrees.

My question is with regards to speakers. I want to run cables through the ceiling and then have some wall outlets in the ceiling and back wall to plug in the surround speakers. Are surround left and surround back speakers ok to be mounted at ceiling height (standard ceiling height)?

Thanks

RunningMan

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Reply # 874696 9-Aug-2013 17:30

I have some at ceiling height, and it's OK.

Some receivers have an option to specify the height (as opposed to the distance to listener) of the speakers (not sure what this does though!)

stevenz

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Reply # 874699 9-Aug-2013 17:37

It changes audio delays generally.

Depends what the speakers are and what you want them to be used for to some extent, but generally speaking they will be fine as long as they're a foot or so from the actual ceiling, if they're too close then you get issues.

@KnightNZ

sdav

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Reply # 874822 9-Aug-2013 20:57

Cool, that's all I wanted to check. Thanks.