Place it where you can maximize physical distance of surrounds from your ears (closest you can match with distance of front mains to ears) Ignore Dolby’s lil layout pictures for side surtounds/back surrounds....On the same note, Sony’s 360 reality SSM beats Dolby to a pulp if you want to optimize for music listening as well, i.e, Dolby’s not the only game in town (Auro’s there too)..
Locating speakers behind where you sit versus positioning them on the side?
I was in a smaller room before I relocated my system to a larger room and the rear speakers were placed on the sides of room because they couldn’t go behind me.
Now they are behind me and I thought this might be better.
When they were on my side they were literally sending soundwaves directly to my ear and I think that may have been better.
If you had your choice which position would you use for these speakers. Not really feasible to do both rear and side