In Reply to: RE: Speaker Positioning posted by Ischgnibargle on September 29, 2010 at 02:34:41:
If you have enough cable, try a "quad" arrangement. 2 front, 2 rear. The effect outdoors can be very nice, since there's no mud from room resonances. Like wearing headphones, except they cover your entire body and are invisible.
Alternatively, if you have a Dolby Surround processor, try that, or maybe you can configure the Driverack to simulate one (rear = L-R plus a bunch of delay, 50 to 100 ms). (Or buy one on eBay for next to nothing if you can find one that's realistically priced.) On tracks with considerable out-of-phase content, this can be startlingly effective. For surround, the rear subs wouldn't do much, so I'd stick them up front, or feed them the same as the front subs.
Or, find some software that turns two into 4 channels and does interesting things. There's gotta be some app that can shift the sound field around, contract it to mono, expand it to enhanced stereo (something like Carver's Sonic Holography or Radio Shack's "Stereo-Wide"), maybe make it rotate.
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