What's the best positionning for small Wi-fi wall mounted speakers in my living room?

[jbellini]

Hi everyone,

For now, I'm listening to music on a pair of nice bookshelf passive speakers plugged in to a Marantz amp. I like my gear very much but we're currently renovating our future apartment and those speakers won't find their place in it.

As we're completely recabling the whole place electric network, I'm considering switching to a wireless multiroom system such as the Bluesound Flex 2i speakers. We've to finalize the electrical plan very soon so I'm looking for advice about where to put the speakers for the best possible rendering.

Two thirds of the living room is the open kitchen and dining room while the last third is some lounge place with sofas and all :


To keep it simple, I'd like to listen to music at 2 locations :

• Sitting in the blue couch in the living room. Once in a while, we'll also watch a movie sitting in the very same couch while projecting to a screen unrolled before the window ;
• Cooking in the open kitchen.

So I imagined positionning 3 Flex 2i speakers :

2 speakers paired in stereo above above the living room's window, tilted downward, aiming toward the couch:


1 speaker in the upper-right angle, also tilted downward and facing the center of the room:


What do you think about this proposal? Should the sound output be loud enough and nice to hear on the whole sound spectrum?

I'm not considering putting 2 speakers in stereo in the living room for two reasons:

• The cost ;
• The fact we're moving constantly in this part of the house thus it seems less important having left/right channel.

What do you think the "sound feeling" will be in both "living room" and "lounge" part of the room when all 3 speakers are playing (2 in Stereo, 1 alone)? I'm afraid it may feel "blurry" with sound waves messing with each other...

I can virtually decide to put my speakers at every angle in both rooms and I've got to make a decision real soon.

 

[staticV3]

Hi @jbellini! Welcome to ASR.

Speaker placement seems sensible, but I dunno about playing all three simultaneously.

At any given time, I'd play either the kitchen speaker or the stereo set. Not both.

 

[jbellini]

Thank you very much for your very quick answer!

I'm not a native English speaker. In this context, does the sentence "Speaker placement seems sensible" means it is good?

I totally understand what you mean by advising not to play all three simultaneously. However, I imagine a situation where we're having a party where some guests are chatting in the kitchen where others are seating in the "lounge part", would it be possible to play all speakers at the same time?

If not, will it be better if this unique speaker is positionned in any other angle of the living room?

Or, as a last resort, will it be better to install 2 speakers (not paired in stereo, so both playing the exact same sound) in this room as well?