Michael McKelvy wrote:
"Stubud" wrote in message
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I'm looking for advice on designing home theater towers and center
speaker console around my projection screen. I'm designing a left
and
right tower to go on each side of the screen. Across the top will
be a
panel (approx. 6-8" ) behind which my center speaker will be
mounted
and some recessed lighting to light up the wall area when the
screen is
up/not in use. The area at the bottom between the towers will have
a
storage bench across the bottom as well (bench for sitting when
screen
not in use, storage for vinyls, DVDs, Videos's etc.)

Here's the question. In each tower I'm planning to place my left
and
right front speakers which are Infinity SM-12's. These speakers
are
rear ported. Above the speakers would be storage for videos/DVDs
(left
side) etc and the audio components (right side). In regards to the
rear ports, would it best to try to just leave the back open with
space
allowed between wall and tower to allow sound out OR should I build
a
baffle system that would capture the rear port sound and project it
forward?

IMO it would be best to let the speaker vent as designed. No reason
to
re-engineer the work done by the original desingers.

Personally, I wouldn't put the speakers inside of anything, as this
would
make it impossible to experiment with placement at a later date or in
a
different space, if need arises.

Actually, I'm designing the home theater unit to allow the speakers to
be removed and not be permanent if necessary. I posted the original
question so that I may get further ideas on how to "vent" the rear port
out around the home theater wall unit. So far from the two responses
I've received (your's and Amy's), it sounds likE I would want to design
the unit so that the back of the cabinet has openings around the entire
speaker to vent the rear port sound. I could subtly hide these
openings with black speaker cloth to make the unit look nice (i.e.
rather than large gaping spaces for speaker venting). The idea here is
asthetics and functionality.