Wall Mounting Floor Standers
Discussion
Essentially, wtf.
One of the younger guys in the office is looking for a house and came accross this photo on the particulars.
Is this as batsh#t insane as it looks? Surely the floor standers are meant to work from a solid base on the floor and have some room round them as well - this is suspended and pressed against the wall.
Is this mental?
One of the younger guys in the office is looking for a house and came accross this photo on the particulars.
Is this as batsh#t insane as it looks? Surely the floor standers are meant to work from a solid base on the floor and have some room round them as well - this is suspended and pressed against the wall.
Is this mental?
As long as they have forward firing bass ports it wouldn't be that awful (at least the sound, they look dreadful , a sort of hifi crucifixion).
What they should have done is soffit mount them as they do in studio control rooms to avoid all wall relections.
ETA Can't see any front bass ports!
What they should have done is soffit mount them as they do in studio control rooms to avoid all wall relections.
ETA Can't see any front bass ports!
Edited by Driller on Tuesday 21st February 17:11
Goa'uld said:
He's looking for a new build detached house and I am really surprised by how small the livingrooms are, 3 and 4 bedroom places have living rooms that you could almost change the channel on the TV without using the remote!
Yeah my niece has just bought a place with her boyfriend....4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms/bogs and tiny living space. People buy based on bedrooms and bogs it seems!
Agreed they do look hideous but there is no reason why mounting them like this couldn't work well if, for example, they were mounted securely and they were a sealed rather than rear ported design. The speaker's designer should have taken boundary ( i.e the floor ) reinforcement into account during the speaker's development. When mounted in this position, low frequencies will receive similar boundary gain from the rear wall instead of the floor.
They are going sound poor (muted and dull) mounted this way though, certainly when the listener is sat watching TV. They would sound far better if they had been mounted the other way up; at least that way the tweeters would be vaguely on axis with the listener's ear height when sat down.
They are going sound poor (muted and dull) mounted this way though, certainly when the listener is sat watching TV. They would sound far better if they had been mounted the other way up; at least that way the tweeters would be vaguely on axis with the listener's ear height when sat down.
Edited by Crackie on Tuesday 28th February 12:55
.Rear ported or not - there will be too much bass for a start.
I have a pair of Linn Keilidh floor standing speakers which are infinite baffle (e.g. no ports) and if you put those too close to the wall, the bass becomes excessive.
To work that close to a wall, the speaker has to be specially designed - Spendor actually designed a model that was intended to be wall mounted.
Floor standers are designed to be close coupled to the floor for optimum performance - and wall mounting them (even high up like above) will give lousy sound.
Also - they could have at least mounted these upside down to get the tweeters at ear level.
It's a case of 'never mind the quality, feel the bass' here.
I have a pair of Linn Keilidh floor standing speakers which are infinite baffle (e.g. no ports) and if you put those too close to the wall, the bass becomes excessive.
To work that close to a wall, the speaker has to be specially designed - Spendor actually designed a model that was intended to be wall mounted.
Floor standers are designed to be close coupled to the floor for optimum performance - and wall mounting them (even high up like above) will give lousy sound.
Also - they could have at least mounted these upside down to get the tweeters at ear level.
It's a case of 'never mind the quality, feel the bass' here.
Edited by TonyRPH on Sunday 26th February 19:44
TonyRPH said:
Rear ported or not - there will be too much bass for a start.
There's no reason why there would be too much bass; the bass reinforcement is determined by the distances to adjacent boundaries. In this location the speaker will receive increased gain from the rear wall but there will be a big reduction from the floor. TonyRPH said:
I have a pair of Linn Keilidh floor standing speakers which are infinite baffle (e.g. no ports) and if you put those too close to the wall, the bass becomes excessive.
You are doubling the boundary gain by putting your Linns close to the rear wall so excess bass (+6db) is likely with gain from floor and rear wall boundaries.TonyRPH said:
Floor standers are designed to be close coupled to the floor for optimum performance
Certainly 
TonyRPH said:
- and wall mounting them (even high up like above) will give lousy sound.
If a floorstanding speaker's path length from its bass driver to the floor is similar to the speaker's front to back depth, which it is in the picture above and probably wouldn't be too far off with Keilidhs, there is no acoustic reason for it to sound lousy when mounted on a wall.Edited by Crackie on Tuesday 28th February 08:24
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