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Wall mounted era 300s placement

  • December 15, 2024
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Hi,

I’m building a new house and am planning on using an arc ultra, sub 4 and 2 era 300s in my media room.

 

The media room is 4m x 4m.  Ceiling height is 3m.  The tv will be mounted on one wall with the arc ultra below it.  My question relates to the era 300s.  The sofa will be up against the opposite wall from the TV.  The room isn’t big enough for this to be spaced away from the wall.

At what height and how far from the side walls would you mount the era 300s?  They can’t be at the recommended 80-100cm as it would be too close to ears (or you’d hit your head on them).

 

Many thanks.

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Stanley_4
  • Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • December 15, 2024

Can you experiment with placement now in an existing room? Come as close to the couch/wall position for the media room as possible. Make temp mounts, cheap lumber works good, and try the 300s in various physically acceptable positions.

Maybe when building the media room you could add mounting blocks between the studs in multiple locations that you might decide to use?

Perfect positioning is all well and good but the bottom line is what is possible and how it sounds to your ears.

My surrounds Play 1s recently upgraded to Era-100s are horribly positioned. Too far back, too high, not centered on the listeners and pointed the wrong directions. Guess what, they sound better than no surrounds. That was the spouse’s other mounting option so I’ll take what I have and be happy with it.

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  • Wandersen
  • Author
  • Contributor I
  • December 15, 2024

I’m going to have to make a decision before I move in.  The power points will be in location for the speakers so it’s not going to be easy to change.  I don’t have the equipment yet I don’t really have a lot of storage and I’ll purchase when it is ready to be installed and it will too late then to change positioning.

AjTrek1
  • AjTrek1
  • December 16, 2024

You might consider mouthing the Era 300’s in the inverted position. Doing so may allow you to mount as high as possible and still have decent surround. TurePlay with and iOS device is now possible to properly tune to your environment. Here’s a link to mounting the Era 300’s in the inverted position:

https://www.sonos.com/en-us/guides/era300
 

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