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Am i sitting too close to the Center Channel? (around 3 feet)

 

Just bought the Denon X1800H to hook a center speaker and 2 rear speakers. I sit only 5 feet from the TV as shown in the pictures. I used Audessy to set it up. Sound comes out of the rear speakers well enough.

The voices coming out of the Mirage MC-2 are too...boxed in. Its true im sitting so close to it (3 feet) but i cant change the dimension of the room. Doesn't feel like a "surround effect" where sound moves across the left- right or front back. Maybe im expecting too much.

Looking for suggestions to improve the sound experience. Space is so tight, i dont even know where id put a subwoofer if i bought one.

Parasound Hint 6

LG C1

Aerial 5T

Mirage MC-2

Mirage M90i rear speakers

https://imgur.com/a/YzzM5Yo

Room looks similar to this

https://imgur.com/a/S6g3oM3

epz
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gkelly
235 posts
 

https://www.sanus.com/en_us/products/speaker-stands/sfc18/

I would start here instead of using that Ekhorn signature base ottoman. Definitely can’t be doing you any favors.
You have plenty of room for subwoofers. They make some pretty good micro subs these days look at REL acoustics https://rel.net/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA8Lu9BhA8EiwAag16b-0UmMU6_C4w4cqO9pxfo4jHIj3lF5-gPpbeJ6Ce36PPqek1pV2pZxoCjbQQAvD_BwE

or KEF, https://us.kef.com/collections/subwoofers?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=210013702&utm_content=11798189422&utm_term=kef%20subwoofer&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA8Lu9BhA8EiwAag16b7v-BfkHHO3rEWCO1lqI3KoZQhXeFcwa1r7cXZCL3yJq_t-FErKfWRoCmhMQAvD_BwE

Or SVS 3000.https://www.svsound.com/collections/subwoofers?g_adtype=search&g_adid=282802693332&g_keywordid=kwd-300886948781&g_acctid=919-192-0664&g_keyword=svs%20subwoofer&g_campaignid=704635121&g_network=g&g_campaign=Brand+-+New&g_adgroupid=43213629839&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADxNmCD8eYtcUU4iIUUhjjSbAkYNl&gclid=CjwKCAiA8Lu9BhA8EiwAag16b7g6PrXyQXDakJO40ANvpGBTEUijyygYn4o7LuoVNXkhA3_hVxfULBoCWbMQAvD_BwE

also try setting up the speakers manually instead of using the room correction feature.

epz OP
35 posts
 

Thank you for these suggestions. Especially trying the manual setup. I just assumed i could never do better than professional software. Worth a try..

deep_333
1,596 posts
 

Center’s placed too low. Center should be identical to fronts.

Disable center channel and just use the 2 Fronts and Surrounds. The phantom center provided by the fronts should be fine for a single listening position such as yours.

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