Bookshelf vs Tower for Bedroom

[Chanur]

Putting together a 3.0 or 3.1 sound system for the bedroom. All the listening will be from the bed. Do I have to use stand mount speakers here or will woofers on towers being below the top of the bed not be an issue?

Sorry if this is a dumb question but would be nice to have the flexibility to choose either.

 

[staticV3]

Do I have to use stand mount speakers here or will woofers on towers being below the top of the bed not be an issue?

3-way towers with midwoofer + tweeter above the bed -> aok

2-way towers with woofers below the bed -> suboptimal

 

[Chanur]

3-way towers with midwoofer + tweeter above the bed -> aok

2-way towers with woofers below the bed -> suboptimal

That makes sense. Because then dialogue would come out below the bed. I'll keep that in mind!

 

[rccarguy]

Either way you want the treble/mid above the height of the bed, and depends on room size as well

Small room- towers are bad idea
Medium/larger - towers are fine

However with standmount you could use them on a desk, so take up less space not needing additional floor space.

 

[staticV3]

Small room- towers are bad idea

Why?

 

[rccarguy]

Why?

Too much bass. Shove in big speakers that go down to 30-40hz, and you'll have way too much room boom.

Also with standmounts you have more options to move them about for the ideal position, with towers you don't much as many options

I have both bookshelf with 4.5"/treble going up to multi driver x 8" woofer - 7" mid towers. I wouldn't use the biggest speakers I've got in a bedroom

 

[staticV3]

Too much bass. Shove in big speakers that go down to 30-40hz, and you'll have way too much room boom.

Add a WiiM Mini for room correction -> problem solved without compromising bass extension

E.g, here's a bedroom setup I corrected using a WiiM Mini:

 

[rccarguy]

Add a WiiM Mini for room correction -> problem solved without compromising bass extension

E.g, here's a bedroom setup I corrected using a WiiM Mini:
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Buy the right speakers for the room in the first place.

 

[staticV3]

Buy the right speakers for the room in the first place.

Sure, for the room above I could've bought speakers that don't extend below 200Hz and that way I wouldn't had any room modes.

The sound would've sucked though, so what's the point in that?

Inexpensive room correction solutions like the WiiM Mini enable us to use virtually any speaker for any room without problematic bass.

Buying worse speakers just to avoid room modes is so 1980s

 

[Oddball]

As noted, 2 centers are a bad idea unless they are separately EQd, which requires, in general, more expensive gear.

LCR should be ideally in the same plane, not C being pulled forward. Any particular reason for pulling C closer to MLP?

 

[rccarguy]

Also you'd ideally want to use this

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For matching brand/range

 

[tineared]

As an aside, I don't understand why so many folks advocate for the smallest speaker/amp for any given situation.
My policy is to buy bigger/more powerful than you need (assuming no budget/size constraints) because you may want to repurpose them in the future...

 

[tw 2022]

Putting together a 3.0 or 3.1 sound system for the bedroom. All the listening will be from the bed. Do I have to use stand mount speakers here or will woofers on towers being below the top of the bed not be an issue?

Sorry if this is a dumb question but would be nice to have the flexibility to choose either.

bmr monitors...

 

[RickS]

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