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Edwards80:
I placed the speakers behind my marquee to see if it sounded muffled. It sounds fine to me.

I'm sure someone who will turn their nose up at listening to anything less than FLAC on a £1500 set of headphones would moan, sounds fine to me though!
DashRendar:
I have 4.1 PC speakers in my cab.

Front-Left and Front-Right speakers are in the marquee overhang, facing down.  They don't interfere with the marquee light.

The sub is on the floor inside my cab.

The Back-Left and Back-Right speakers are mounted below the monitor, in the part of the cab just before the control panel.

I run multiple emulators and DW Jukebox on mine.  Not sure if any of that utilizes surround sound, but I do get sound out of all 4 speakers, which sounds good coming from 4 points in the cab.
shateredsoul:
that sounds pretty good dash, do you have a thread for your cab?

I might be able to do something similar to yours.. and just put the center speaker right behind the marquee.

Hmm.. I didn't know that about sub-woofers, maybe he knows something I dont? He's built cases for his own subwoofers before.. we'll we're suppose to go buy the wood and other supplies tomorrow. I'll talk about it with him.
BadMouth:
Actually, the best possible sound would be obtained by mounting the speakers at ear level, pointing directly at your ears, & equal distance from your ears. (assuming that the speakers were designed to be used "on-axis".  Most computer speakers are. Most car speakers are not.)  Having the subwoofer equal distance from your ears would also keep the sound from "smearing" around the crossover point, but that is getting way too picky for an arcade cab IMHO.

As far as music goes, is it important that the jukebox sound amazing for exactly one person, standing directly in front of it.  ???
I can't see myself standing in the sweet spot in front of an arcade machine, just to listen to music (unless maybe I'm playing games at the same time).

I'd put the arcade speakers where arcade speakers go & run another line out to a home stereo receiver with speakers placed high on the walls around the room  (think nightclub or bar).  Keep the arcade experience an arcade experience & the jukebox experience be an experience for everyone.

That being said, I was very picky when I mounted the speakers in my driving cab.  They are at ear level.
It does give an extra "immersive" quality to the experience.
But then again, that's where the original speakers were on the cab I used (Virtual-On...same cab as Daytona USA)


Experiment, experiment, experiment!

shateredsoul:
Oh man.. too many choices  ???

My friend was big on having the speakers at ear level  or at least facing the player, when I asked him about mounting the other speakers he told me to wall mount them, but ... then you can see the wires.  I guess that's not too bad,  but let's say I do something like that (2 on the cab and subwoofer on the cab).. I can mount the 2 rear speakers, and then what do I do with the center speaker?  Put it underneath the monitor for kids? Implant it into a stool?

I also asked if he had any ideas of whether a 15" monitor would fit in there.. he said underneath the monitor.  He already went and drew upmeasurements for for my monitor and so it could hold my cp (my cp is larger than this one... a lot larger). So my cab will be wider because my monitor is wider (especially if you include the light gun sensors).



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