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Where the ehck do you have your rear computer speakers mounted?

ive always wondered this as well, i wasnt sure if they had some sort of hovering device or not.... but i guess a bookshelf would be convient enough
 
my 2 rear Z560 speakers are on a shelf in my closet. I've considered mounting them on the wall behind me but it's about 6-8 feet away and might look retarded...plus I'm too lazy. I have 5.1 downstairs so I'm not too worried. Kind of a waste of a Z560 system though. 🙁
 
Originally posted by: BillGates
my 2 rear Z560 speakers are on a shelf in my closet. I've considered mounting them on the wall behind me but it's about 6-8 feet away and might look retarded...plus I'm too lazy. I have 5.1 downstairs so I'm not too worried. Kind of a waste of a Z560 system though. 🙁
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and by "on a shelf in my closet" I mean that they are still in their original packaging, not hooked up.
 
my rear speakers are sitting right next to my front speakers - I took a pair of Y connectors and just take the front channels. I could never geat rear channel analog to work anyway.
 
I don't have access to pics right now, but here's what I did with my PM 4.1 rears speakers.

1. Drilled two holes, one in each leg of each speaker's feet.
2. Put hollow wall anchors in ceiling.
3. Slightly bent each stand up a little to angle speaker "down towards the back of my head"
4. Mount speakers to celing.

I used C-hooks (mug hooks) screwed into the ceiling to run the wires over my head, down the wall and to the control box. Works great.
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
I don't have access to pics right now, but here's what I did with my PM 4.1 rears speakers.

1. Drilled two holes, one in each leg of each speaker's feet.
2. Put hollow wall anchors in ceiling.
3. Slightly bent each stand up a little to angle speaker "down towards the back of my head"
4. Mount speakers to celing.

I used C-hooks (mug hooks) screwed into the ceiling to run the wires over my head, down the wall and to the control box. Works great.
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Dang we need pictures of this ASAP!!!
 
This is a baaad ascii drawing of how my surround speakers are set up 🙂

o__o_____o
/__/
o
|
|
o

In the corner of my room, i sit at the "corner" of the "desk" above, inbetween the front 2 speakers. The rear ones are actually behind me, so it does sound pretty good in games 🙂


Confused
 
Confused, that is exactly how I have my desk set up, it is one of those "courner" unit thingies.
I see that your speakers are behind you, but what are they mounted on?
 
I have an L-shaped desk in the corner, so the right rear is on the desk. The left rear is on a stand (one I made in shop class in 8th grade no less) on top of a mini-fridge.

When I'm down at college I'll have a corner desk, so they'll be on the respective corners of the desk.
 
Well I have chrome shelving running all along the "top" wall, so it's on there. And the other one is on my window-sill 🙂


Confused
 
i have the right rear on a bookshelf against the same wall my computer shares. The left speaker is ghetto-tied (using tape and string) to a tripod originally intended for my digicam/camcorder. It works great because i can move it into place when i'm using surround, or move it back to the corner to get it out of the way.
 
Here is me:


+----------X-------+ (+'s are speakers, X is my sub)
|O| (this is my laptop)
🙂 (me looking at porn... er, um, anandtech, yeah that's what I meant)

That's it for me, I don't have the desire to hook up rears.

On the same note... how good do headphones do with "surround" sound? I've never figured out how 1 speaker on each side could convey something in front or behind you...

EDIT: AT sucks at WYSIWYG.
The laptop and me should be one space to the left of the X in the speaker/sub line
 
I have a corner desk. One speaker on each side of my monitor, sub underneath desk in corner, left rear speaker is on the window sill, although it's really just to the left, and not so much to the rear. The right one is much closer, being on the cart that my printer is on, but is also more right than rear. I still feel I get pretty good directional positioning from it. I could never figure out how else to do it. Although an elaborite metal arm system would be neat (and by neat I mean dorky.)
 
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