** A/V Receiver Speaker Hookup Question **

[ttechf]

Hi,

I had a question about hooking speakers up to my A/V receiver. I obviously followed directions and put my 2 floor speakers where it says "FRONT" on the back of my receiver but I was curious as to what would happen if I put these where it says "CENTER" or "BACK", or wherever else. Does better sound come out where the speakers are designated to be because goofy me, I did put the speakers by accident in the "BACK" ports and I just switched them over to FRONT and I dont notice a difference in sound from the speakers.

Like if I had a center channel speaker and put it in the BACK port, how much of an issue is this really? Does this really affect sound that much? Does the receiver know what speakers are where and produce sound accordingly?


Thanks!!!

 

[Kartajan]

The AVR bases it's output on (a) The connection (as labeled), and (b) the source material encoding. Many also have "self calibration" features that require you to attach a microphone to configure delays and such. I imagine that connecting is wrong would make it sound really funky in regard to sound stage...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surround_sound

 

[JeffMD]

Why is this a question? How do you dress in the morning? Clearly you put your front speakers on FRONT so you can hear all the sound intended for the FRONT speakers. If you stuck it on the center, you would get the audio tracks on the center speaker (usually this is a mono channel and is the front 2 mixed together with higher dialogue volume). And of course anything you stick on the rear speakers will be any sound that is behind you (In most cases with stereo only source, these remain silent).