We are, of course, talking about your RV, if you have a surround sound system set up to accompany your 12 volt TV (and if you don’t, you should, cause you’re basically driving around in a swanky living room). If you’ll pardon another 2001: A Space Odyssey reference, setting up your surround sound can be frustrating enough to make you beat the ground with your remote like a monkey with a bone. Where do the speakers go? Why does everything sound so horrible? WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT?! It doesn’t have to be! Like an all-knowing monolith, the JuJuDeals team is here to guide you to the next stage of human development. Or television enjoyment. Whichever.
For the purposes of this tip guide, we’re assuming you’ve already researched and purchased the kind of speakers you’ll be needing. What we’re principally concerned with here is proper placement. What you don’t want to do is just put the speakers in the four corners of your RV. Before you place your speakers, you need to find what is usually called your “sweet spot.” Stop laughing, children, or it’s detention for all of you. The sweet spot is the place you’ll ideally be doing most of your viewing from, so go find the comfiest seat in your RV. Go on, it’s okay. We’ll wait.
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Okay, good, you’re back. What took you so long? Seriously, we didn’t say we’d wait all day. Well whatever. Did you find the sweet spot? Excellent. Now you need to consider where it is in relation to your 12 volt TV. Is it directly across from it? Is it at an angle? In either case, you want to orient your speakers, as much as you can, around the sweet spot when you are directly facing the TV. Just pretend you’re this smug little guy, and try to place your speakers as follows:
You wish you were as cool as this guy.
Now, there are all kinds of other hassles to hack through, like adjusting levels depending on what kind of media you watch most, choosing the best cables for high audio fidelity, etc. But that is a guide for another time. For now, sit in that glorious sweet spot and enjoy the music.
