Playbar positioning

With that installation, where you're looking up at the TV, I think I'd mount the Playbar either above the TV correctly, or below but upside-down (nameplate closest to the screen). The install instructions assume a more traditional screen elevation.

Here is the schematic drawing I was referring to. You can see that the speakers are installed at an angle, hence the importance of proper placement.

http://prylkoll.se/wp-content/uploads//2013/02/sonos-playbar-schematics.jpg

@Qunitus You are truly a lifesaver. I've been dealing with the most annoying audio issue for 2 years now rendering my Sonos kit totally useless on my home movie theater. The Sound Effects were way too loud and the the voices were muffled 60% of the time! All the advice was to turn on the speech enhancement and change my cabling configuration for Chromecast or Plex Media Server or Netflix. Nothing worked, I tried everything.. Until we had another terrible movie experience last night where 60% of the speech was too low too soft or non-legible. Then I thought, "I wonder if this playbar has to be below the movie screen?" Then I searched "Sonos Playbar Positioning" low and behold, after your simple explanation about what the instructions say, I double checked my theater installers work. The lousy, no good SOB, put it in upside down!!! If the cables are not away from your screen or the "silver bar" (both will be the same) AWAY from the screen, your audio experience gets destroyed. It took less than 5 minutes of random scene watching to feel as excited as a fat kid in a candy store or a leprechaun in a whore house, I was sooo happy! Thank you for fixing my audio issue. Again if your sound FX are louder than the voice, first and foremost ensure your playbar is installed in the right direction. That does not mean "angling" it, it means rightside up or upside down, it is critical. Where the cables go must be away from your screen or for my playbar the "silver bar" part must be away from the screen. Thank you 1 million times Quintus!! 😃 😃 :D

Tags: Sonos FX Louder Than Voice, Sonos Sound Effects too Loud, Sonos voice too low, Sonos Speech too Low, Plex Media Server Audio Problem with Sonos, Chromecast Audio Problem with Sonos

Here is the schematic drawing I was referring to. You can see that the speakers are installed at an angle, hence the importance of proper placement.

http://prylkoll.se/wp-content/uploads//2013/02/sonos-playbar-schematics.jpg

This image looks wrong to me...shouldn't the controls on the right cheek be at the front, not the back?

Schematic looks correct (controls on back of rhs panel), this is how mine is positioned in front of TV.

Any answer?