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Why is the wall behind our speakers so often called the rear wall?
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It depends on what your point of reference is. From the speakers' point of view, it's the rear wall. From the listener's, it's the front wall.
Also depends on your speakers. From my speakers' point of view, it's just the baffle.
Also depends on your speakers. From my speakers' point of view, it's just the baffle.
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Gads. I guess I have to say '2 is the only one I can even see relating here.
I suspect the convention may vary as much from country to country as to individual choice.
Until I started reading audio forums with a large US membership, the rear / back wall was always considered as the wall behind the speakers. The US membership seem to be the ones that think more self-centredly and chose to use their own position as how to determine which is the rear wall!
Looking at it another way, we are mobile, getting up from our listening chair, ajusting speaker positioning, etc so the speaker's perspective may be more relevent, and the rear wall is the one behind the fixed speaker.
Recently to avoid confusion, I have tried to stop using "rear wall" and now say "the wall behind the speaker". A PIA as it now needs 5 words to type instead of 2.
Happy days!
Until I started reading audio forums with a large US membership, the rear / back wall was always considered as the wall behind the speakers. The US membership seem to be the ones that think more self-centredly and chose to use their own position as how to determine which is the rear wall!
Looking at it another way, we are mobile, getting up from our listening chair, ajusting speaker positioning, etc so the speaker's perspective may be more relevent, and the rear wall is the one behind the fixed speaker.
Recently to avoid confusion, I have tried to stop using "rear wall" and now say "the wall behind the speaker". A PIA as it now needs 5 words to type instead of 2.
Happy days!
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Archguy
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When I hear people refer to it as the rear wall, I always wonder what they would then call the wall behind them.
Speaker's rear wall.
Listener's rear wall.
Listener's rear wall.
Zgrado1970
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Because you should only listen to music in the back of your house.
Front wall can only be in one place. Rear wall could mean two possibilities!
When talking about speaker position, it simply is "the wall". You recommend this and that distance from the wall, and done. Context makes it overly clear what wall that is. No need to complicate your speech.
Some speaker placements refer to side walls!
These are the walls either side of the speakers, not the ones beside the listener, so it is logical to call the wall behind the sperakers the rear wall.
OK, we've cracked it, thanks to side walls!
Some speaker placements refer to side walls!
These are the walls either side of the speakers, not the ones beside the listener, so it is logical to call the wall behind the sperakers the rear wall.
OK, we've cracked it, thanks to side walls!
If the back wall is in front, then the left wall is on the right and the right wall is on the left?we've cracked it, thanks to side walls!
My sidewalls are the ceiling
Don't know what's the floor
My entire being
Tries not fall out the door
I don't think it's very complicated. The rear wall being referenced from the speakers perspective makes sense when you have one pair of speakers in front of you. In a world where multl-channel setups are common, with speakers in front, behind and to the sides of the listener, then it makes more sense that 'the rear' is referenced from the listener.
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