I'm late in the discussion but since I recently got the 140SA too, I thought I could share a few tips who worked for me.
Like most of the people I assumed that putting the speakers on top of my speakers, slightly higher than my ears level would work. hell no.
My front speakers are 2 Klipsch RF-35, 8 feet high flat pop corn ceiling (urg), couch is roughly 2.5 meters away from the screen. Sony STR-DN1080, 5.1.2 setup
I didn't get any ATMOS effect, just some localized sound coming from the speakers. I was expecting thunder and rain coming on top of my head. Since every room is different I had to move them around, increase the volume, adjusted the crossover to 150Hz (from the manual), putting them higher/lower, next to the couch/behind the couch, leaning them more towards me. nothing worked and I really felt ripped off.
Then coming closer to the speakers I heard the sound coming from the ceiling. Basically it was bouncing all this time 1 meter away from the speakers.
Putting them directly on the floor next to my main speakers actually solved the problem, it increased the bouncing distance and I managed to hit the MLP. still had to adjust slightly the angle if i want the sound exactly on top of my head. Of course by having them on the floor, you can localize the sound directly, so I put a pillow in front of them to block the source and it did the trick. Will update with some acoustic foam to have something cleaner, my GF wants the pillows
Klipsch 140SA Placement
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Posted · Edited by Efixe
Hey guys,
I'm late in the discussion but since I recently got the 140SA too, I thought I could share a few tips who worked for me.
Like most of the people I assumed that putting the speakers on top of my speakers, slightly higher than my ears level would work. hell no.
My front speakers are 2 Klipsch RF-35, 8 feet high flat pop corn ceiling (urg), couch is roughly 2.5 meters away from the screen. Sony STR-DN1080, 5.1.2 setup
I didn't get any ATMOS effect, just some localized sound coming from the speakers. I was expecting thunder and rain coming on top of my head. Since every room is different I had to move them around, increase the volume, adjusted the crossover to 150Hz (from the manual), putting them higher/lower, next to the couch/behind the couch, leaning them more towards me. nothing worked and I really felt ripped off.
Then coming closer to the speakers I heard the sound coming from the ceiling. Basically it was bouncing all this time 1 meter away from the speakers.
Putting them directly on the floor next to my main speakers actually solved the problem, it increased the bouncing distance and I managed to hit the MLP. still had to adjust slightly the angle if i want the sound exactly on top of my head. Of course by having them on the floor, you can localize the sound directly, so I put a pillow in front of them to block the source and it did the trick. Will update with some acoustic foam to have something cleaner, my GF wants the pillows
now I can say it, holy cow, Atmos is amazing
It was worth the headaches. cheers