Floor Standing Vs Surround Speakers

Surround sound systems can have a mix of both floor standing and.

Floor standing vs surround speakers.

Floor standers are typically around three feet tall while bookshelf speakers are roughly one foot tall. Because of their larger size floor standing speakers can have more drivers the part of a. While you can put a bookshelf speaker on a shelf they will sound better on a speaker stand out in the room very similar to what we described for floor standing speakers. They will lack the deep bass of a tower but some models when coupled with a subwoofer are able to put out a very large and convincing soundstage for music.

Not exclusively but a pair of floor standing speakers augmented by smaller strategically located speakers will result in the ideal setup for surround sound. If you re a music freak or an action movie lover the excitement you re going to bring in the room through the floor standing speakers will be unparalleled. They are smaller speakers in size as compared to a floor standing which reduces the amount of sound it can produce. The low mid and high sounds are all coming through one speaker primarily the lows as opposed to having a floor standing speaker which produces the low mid and high sounds individually.

A pair of floor standing speakers are complemented by smaller centrally placed speakers.