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Arc with amp and in ceiling speakers possible with no back wall

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Hello forum,

first time post, but searching the forum I haven’t found a good answer yet. We are moving in to a new home with the family room having an open back wall into the kitchen. In our previous home, we had a great rectangular family room that I used an Arc, two Play:1s and sub. In the new family room, lacking a back wall, I’m worried the arc won’t work well. I can certainly reflect surrounds off the walls, but would in ceiling rears (connected via AMP) provide a decent surround effect even with the open back? I suspect not, but wondered if anyone had similar set-ups/experience.

thank you!

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buzz

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Sonance is not in the trash group that I mentioned, but in my opinion the Amina’s are in a different class. I don’t know how one would find a demonstration where it would be possible to compare both.

The Amina’s are not directional in the traditional sense. You are very aware of the musical elements, but not very aware of the exact speaker location.

In my opinion, if you are using traditional L/R speakers that image well and are close to the TV, center channel is mostly redundant, however, some A/V kit might not handle this as gracefully as we’d like. It is important that the L-C-R speakers have the same timber. If the timber is different, an actor’s voice will change while walking across the stage. In your fireplace mounting scheme, I think that the L/R speakers will be too close to the TV, relative to your viewing distance. You’ll have OK sound, but not much of a ‘grand’ surround experience.

Those marketing photos distort the room dimensions for me, but I would go large for the TV. Make a statement.

R

Ron PanasonicAuthor

Contributor I

Buzz, thank you for the thoughts. And thank you, also, Ken for yours.

buzz, to make sure I understand your thought right, are you saying that regardless of whether one would use the LCR front speaker set up, it would inevitably get muddled with the work-around for the fireplace mounting (ie, sound muddled regardless if you didn’t use a dedicated center channel)?

im obviously imagining something here with no actual regard to budget (and I can’t blow, like, $20,000 on sound in this room), would you think you could make it work with say animas in the traditional 5.1 setup (or maybe even 4.1) - and I like Ken’s idea of going for a 5.2 or 4.2 set up with subs - with in-wall fronts and ceiling mounted rears (and I guess open up a 5.2.2/5.2.4 or 4.2.4) system if I win the lottery)?

I guess that feels like I am forcing a square peg into a round hole and would be better, which I think you said originally, picking a different room for the non-casual viewing.

thanks again, guys, really do appreciate the thoughts.

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