I can vouch for pretty much everything Nsgarch recommended. First, the caveats: we technically do not have a pure cathedral ceiling (it rises up to clerestory windows on a high wall so the room is not symmetrical) and we couldn't sit 2ft from the back wall. Other than that - way back when (pre-kids, etc.) I stumbled onto that type of placement purely by accident. The speakers were centered on the long wall (facing the higher-wall clerestories) and the only real room treatment-like thingies were the drapes over the two sliding patio doors to the outside of either speaker. Lost count of how many friends/visitors commented/marveled over the sound. Same speakers on the end wall were good but never as special. For that & the reasons cited by Nsgarch we recommend you start centered on a long wall and see if you ever move them.
Speakers this way, or that, with cathedral ceiling
Hello all. With all other things being equal and as a general rule of thumb, when you are setting up a two-channel system in a room with a cathedral ceiling, do the speakers go on on of the walls with the ceiling sloping down toward it, or do they go on a wall that stretches up to the point?
Thanks.
-- Howard
Thanks.
-- Howard