JAMO – ON THE WEB

Placing Your Speakers Properly

Jamo, who are attacking the Home Cinema market in a big way, are now proposing an interactive guide on their web site, allowing those of you who’ve been asking yourself questions about correct speaker positioning, to find the right answers, with the optimal positions of your speakers, depending on the size and shape of your room.

The new interactive Placement Guide by Jamo is one of their “consumer” tools, allowing you today to determine, to the last detail, the positioning of your speakers in a room. We have noted that in some people’s places, the furniture moves around a lot. It’s also rare that the speakers stay in the same positions. That’s why the good advice of a sound expert and, here, of a manufacturer become necessary. The Placement Guide allows you to resolve this difficult equation and asks you three simple questions in order to determine the position of your speakers:

1. What is the shape of your room? You indicate whether the room is square , rectangular, or has any nooks or crannies.
2. Where are you sitting when you listen? You answer by moving a chair and the listening zone until you reach the ideal position.
3. Are you using a Hi-Fi or Home Cinema system?

The Placement Guide then indicates where all the speakers should be placed in order for the listener to be in an optimal listening position. As you will note, this positioning of the speaker is indicated in green. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to place one’s speakers so precisely, as other parameters often get in the way (furniture, decorations, etc.). That’s why you are also given, in yellow, a zone that is termed “acceptable” in which to place the speaker. In addition, this interactive interface gives you other advice such as:
- the tweeters should be at ear level in order to avoid sonic distortion and the loss of high frequencies.
- The low frequencies can be made the most of by the speakers being placed in a corner, while always respecting a distance between the speakers and the wall (20 to 50 cm).

This guide will, in any case, be useful for those having problems in deciding how to place their speakers… or to improve the listening performance of your kit.

This very useful tool can be found on the following website: www.jamo.com.