Speaker Layout For Garage

[Garage357]

I am trying to figure out the best locations for speakers in my garage which is a triple (I call it a 2+1). I labeled a sketchup I did of my garage with what I consider the potential speaker locations. The receiver is right under the TV, which is on a swinging wall mount and can be positioned to face either direction in the garage.

Right now I have speakers mounted on the ceiling at 2,3,4 &5 with the center channel on top of the receiver and the sub-woofer at 6 on the shelf. It sounds okay, but not great. The equipment is just a cheap RCA 5.1 Channel System that I found used for $20. Someday it might get upgraded if I can find a good deal on something used. I have a couple extra speakers, but I don't know if running two speakers off one output is a good idea.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[kd3pc]

I have found when you use the 5 or 7:1 and you don't have that focused on a "seating area or position" the sound is awkward.

I went back to plain two channel stereo with two decent bookshelf speakers, wall mounted on either side of door, pointed back in to the garage(rather on the back wall and pointed to the street) and have great sound, decent volume. The only downside is if I am out front in the gravel driveway, I may need to turn the volume up a bit more.

 

[Jere]

Yeah multi channel surround systems dont work great in anything but a home theater room.

I would see it you could set it to stereo or even mono so all the speakers are putting out the same channels. That way you wont get just a weird random background effect noise in one corner of your garage. Then just put a non sub speaker in each corner of the area you spend the most time pointing to your work area. This could be a the furthest corners or just a small zone depending on where your main work or viewing area is

 

[MOTODOJO]

Go 70 volt for several speakers, as summing the left and right channels will give you the total audio package. Even stereo imaging is essentially useless unless you stand in the center of the speaker overlap triangle. Check out the Peavey Auto-match 2 transformer. Add a powered sub for punch.

 

[MOTODOJO]

Or to keep what you got .......just come out stereo into a matching speaker transformer. This will let you keep stereo and add pairs without putting too much load on the amp.