Wall Mounting Rear Ported Speakers

Q1 is 5 6 inch space sufficient for rear porting speakers to work fine.

Wall mounting rear ported speakers.

In a perfect world set your listening position more than 3m 9 8 feet from the wall behind the speaker regardless of the distance of the speaker to the wall assuming normal setup. My current rear surround speakers are mounted on the wall near the ceiling beside the sofa. Before i start wall mounting these speakers i have few questions. Hi all i am considering purchasing a pair of sonus faber liuto towers.

Is this the ideal placement. My problem is that i can only position them so that the back of the speaker is only about one foot from the wall behind it. Even if you are using the front speakers above 80hz or so it seems like a bad idea to mount rear ported spaekers on the wall. Not only will this help with the soundstage it will also change the relationship of the rear port to your wall by changing the angle of reflection.

If i had to mount speakers on the wall i would look for front ported speakers. I also read in some other threads where people has advised to stuff the rear port with cloth do you recommend that. Rear ported speakers and wall distance. Total blockage turns the speaker into a sealed box in a box that is on the small side.

I will place the 2 new surround speakers at ear height on both sides of the sofa. Any thoughts on this. They are a rear ported speaker and come highly rated. With the latest speaker mounts you can position your speakers perfectly without sacrificing style.

Depending on the tuning of the box the effects of. Speaker wall mounts pair of universal side clamping bookshelf speaker mounting brackets large or small speakers 2 mounts 55 lbs capacity black mi sb37 4 7 out of 5 stars 773 28 99 28. There are plenty of them out there to choose from. Any back ported speaker with a port diameter of 2 for example will work just fine placed up to a wall as long as there is 2 of space behind the port.

And oh look that just happens to be the minimum distance to the wall recommended by genelec for their back ported speakers what a coincidence. I will be adding 2 more speakers soon and want to expand to 7 1. So now i will have 4 rear surround speakers at ear height and ceiling height.