Flatscreen between speakers
Has anyone found a solution to cancel or at least improve the acoustic glare caused by a flatscreen tv on the wall behind the speakers? I don’t have a dedicated room and have to share the room with my home theater setup. I have thought of using an appropriate curtain and treat the tv as if it was a window. I am also considering light 3D printed panels that I can temporarily hung when listening to music and take down when watching TV with the wife.
I tried hanging a couple of thick towels on it to see if there would be any improvement and the answer is yes. The center image is more solid and a little deeper. Nothing drastic but if I could squeeze anything positive, why not. Please let me know if you have confronted this issue in the past and whether you were able to solve it. Thanks.
Fortunately I no longer have a flat screen between my speakers sharing stereo and surround sound. But when I did, I used a double-sided quilted black cover from https://www.digitaldeckcovers.com/ $110 delivered. It helped a lot and was easy to deal with. I added a few small velcro squares to tighten things up.
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@macg19. Definitely need to explore this. Maybe that’s all that is needed. At any rate, I am going to start there, maybe add some padding to the front. Thanks. |
@elliottnewcombjr
There are very good reasons for not using a centre speaker, especially one which is in effect a horizontal d’Apolito array! As soon as you move away from dead centre, the outer drivers create an interference effect, or comb filter. If your main front left and front right speakers have good imaging capability, let them do what they are already good at. Your pre-processor should just add the centre signal to the signal for the two front speakers - my Marantz ones all do this. My main system is configured with two main front speakers, and two rear speakers, plus four ceiling speakers and a subwoofer. |
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