Is Nearfield Auro 3d possible?

[theshade]

I took this from the genelec monitor setup guide. I currently have my speakers nearfield and the projection screen is far like the in the genelec diagram below.

Can I also put the elevated speakers vertically above the lower layer speakers thus being nearfield also for auro 3d? I like how the nearfield setup sounds and I dont run into spl problems. Thanks

 

[theshade]

I found this. I guess I should not worry then. Auro 3d themselves use a nearfield setup in one of their sound design rooms. I noticed they used neumann speakers here and the majority of their speakers in rooms are genelec.

I was also inspired by sancus pic here of the stands and was thinking whether it could handle two 8030 instead of neumann kh 80.
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/neumann-kh420-vs-genelec-8361a.17621/

Thanks a lot sancus!

 

[theshade]

What are these speakers? Are these 8050b's, 8040b's or 8030c's?

 

[Sancus]

I was also inspired by sancus pic here of the stands and was thinking whether it could handle two 8030 instead of neumann kh 80.

I think probably yes. The friction clamp on the 19780 won't hold up a Genelec 8351B(it slowly drags down), but that's over 14kg. The 8030C is only 5kg so it should probably be OK. I'm actually not sure what the real maximum weight of that thing is. K&M claims 15kg but that's definitely not true. I emailed them to ask about it.

One thing you should take note of is that Auro3D has specified elevation angles to the listener for their heights, 30-40 degrees. It looks to me like they handled that in the above nearfield setup by keeping some of the speakers at lower heights. It's probably not too important to get this perfect, especially if you're only using the heights for reflections with upmixing. I don't have any issues with this since my heights are mostly 2m+ from the MLP.

 

[Senior NEET Engineer]

Why not move the speakers closer to the screen?

 

[theshade]

Why not move the speakers closer to the screen?

The screen is about 12 to 13 feet away. My previous speakers are behind the screen and the center speaker remains there but I opted to place the genelecs in front of the screen to avoid hitting spl limitations. And I guiltily admit that I want to see my new speakers . The pic is probably just because of camera focal length and they are 59 to 63 inches away from the listening position depending on the tilt of the recliner. Additionally, I wanted to follow this by genelec so I wanted the 8030c to be less than 2 meters away.