Does anyone have a picture of the back of the 5DB?  I thought there would be one in the Product page, but all the pictures show the front/sides.  I want to see what the mounting mechanism looks like.

Hello there and welcome to the forum!

Here are some pictures,

Back of the 5DB:

 

Mounting hardware, small piece goes on the back of the speaker, large piece goes on the wall.  The screw holes on the wall plate are about four inches apart:

 

Here is how they hook together:

I hope that helps but let us know if you have any other questions, thanks!

 

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Jason Hicks
Aperion Audio Guru

Are the wall plates visible when the speaker is mounted?  It seems like they would be.

Josephd05:

Are the wall plates visible when the speaker is mounted?  It seems like they would be.

 

Nope the speaker is wider than the plate.

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Jason Hicks
Aperion Audio Guru

Hi Jason,

I just purchased a complete 7.1 system (haven't got the speakers yet) and I am trying to plan speaker placement and mounting. Is the picture of the speaker upside down? If not, it looks as though the wall plate would be visible above the speaker.

 Will the supplied mounts hold a speaker that is angled downward? I have to place my side surrounds about 5 feet above the listeners ears and was planning to angle them down a bit by mounting wedges to the walls and then mounting the wall plates to the wedges. Do you think this will work with the 5DB speakers and supplied mounts or is angling them down a waste of time? I've read in a few places that dipole/bipole speakers mounted too high should be angled down towards the listening area. Your thoughts on this would be appreatiated.

Thanks,

Jim

CAANS (Customer Anxiously Awaiting New Speakers)

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Jim

guitarjim721:

Hi Jason,

I just purchased a complete 7.1 system (haven't got the speakers yet) and I am trying to plan speaker placement and mounting. Is the picture of the speaker upside down? If not, it looks as though the wall plate would be visible above the speaker.

 Will the supplied mounts hold a speaker that is angled downward? I have to place my side surrounds about 5 feet above the listeners ears and was planning to angle them down a bit by mounting wedges to the walls and then mounting the wall plates to the wedges. Do you think this will work with the 5DB speakers and supplied mounts or is angling them down a waste of time? I've read in a few places that dipole/bipole speakers mounted too high should be angled down towards the listening area. Your thoughts on this would be appreatiated.

Thanks,

Jim

 

 

I would be interested in this answer too.  That is how it appears to me as well.  I need to drill a hole for my speaker cable and am trying to figure out if the hole can be concealed with the speaker.

CAANS (Customer Anxiously Awaiting New Speakers)

The speaker is 11.75"H X 10.6"W, the mounting plate is 5"HX3.5"W so the speaker has no trouble hiding the bracket, as you can see from the pictures I posted on AVS and here:

http://www.aperionaudio.com/community/forums/8561/ShowThread.aspx#8561

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Jason Hicks
Aperion Audio Guru

guitarjim721:

Hi Jason,

I just purchased a complete 7.1 system (haven't got the speakers yet) and I am trying to plan speaker placement and mounting. Is the picture of the speaker upside down? If not, it looks as though the wall plate would be visible above the speaker.

 Will the supplied mounts hold a speaker that is angled downward? I have to place my side surrounds about 5 feet above the listeners ears and was planning to angle them down a bit by mounting wedges to the walls and then mounting the wall plates to the wedges. Do you think this will work with the 5DB speakers and supplied mounts or is angling them down a waste of time? I've read in a few places that dipole/bipole speakers mounted too high should be angled down towards the listening area. Your thoughts on this would be appreatiated.

Thanks,

Jim

CAANS (Customer Anxiously Awaiting New Speakers)

 

I feel like perhaps I spoke with you on the phone earlier...

You can mount them a bit higher, and angling should not be a problem. Although that would depend on the amount of angle somewhat...The picture in this thread clearly shows how the speaker mounts to the wall. I think too much of an angle would put too much stress on the mount and would not offer as much security as it being flush with a straight vertical wall.

If need be you could actually use the B Tech Pivoting Wall Mount with the 5DB and get a bit more angle action going on. I don't think angling them is too much of an issue. In both of our demo rooms, we have the speakers about 7 feet off the ground and it sound rather nice. It helps add to the non-localizable sound field that comes from these speakers and really make it sound more like what you would hear in an actual movie theater.

As far as conceling wire goes, the back of the speaker does have that groove in it to lie your wire into. You can see it in the pictures above...it looks like a black strip. You can lie the wire in that if you have a hole drilled directly behind the speaker and that works quite nicely...

Hope this info helped. Sorry to steal Jason's thunder...

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David Bolt
Aperion Audio Guru
www.aperionaudio.com

You guy's are great! Thanks a lot.

Jim

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Jim

Just installed them on Saturday.  Fishing the cable was a nightmare, but well worth it at the end.  The sound is totally different.  At times the sound feels like its coming from the front.  I have to get use to not being able to localize the surround effects as much, but other than that these speakers look and sound great.