Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Systems Centre Speaker Height

Howie I run a 7000 VC like you in between 2 8000s. I believe floor standing speakers are not meant to be taken off the floor- they will lose some of their bass impact. What I would do instead is adjust the individual axis settings on each speaker. Normally the control such as corner, boundary, etc are set for all the speakers, but you can trick the system by doing one speaker at a time- turn off the other speakers. In my case my DSPs are on the floor but my seating is on a riser so I am a drop higher than the speakers would ordinarily be. I believe the speakers come with a default axis rating of -1. I set my 8000s to 0 and I set my 7000 to +2 (or maybe +3 I forget now). Point is this made the soundstage seem more even. These controls work. I would not use any of the boundary or corner controls with your setup since you have MRC- those location controls were like a poor mans MRC. Given your speaker locations I can understand why you have not chosen an 8000 VC (side firing woofers- thats a lot of side firing woofers going on!) but perhaps as a future upgrade thought you might consider a 7200 VC.

Very nice setup you have there.