L & R Channel Placement
Hey everyone, I'm a little confused by something I see posted here fairly frequently and would love for some discussion from different perspectives to help me better understand.
I see placing their L&R channels behind acoustically transparent projector screens. For the most immersive experience, shouldn't the L&R channels be laterally to the screen instead of behind the screen? It's really common for sound to come from a person or object off screen to the left or right (even something as simple as someone speaking from the off screen to the left). Isn't this aspect of immersion lost with the speakers behind the screen? Also, its seems like there is typicall less room to pull the speakers off the back surface and toe them in correctly in these setups, right?
Obviously it makes sense to have the center channel behind the screen but I'd love everyone's perspective on this.