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.
@ghdprentice. Good catch. I did pick the cotton and black. I intend to pad the front with some absorbing material (old towels?) if the first try is not too convincing. |
As Audiophiles or music lovers are goal for most is to eliminate acoustical issues in our listening room. Adding a TV screen is a self inflicted issue. Yes, many band-aid corrections could alleviate some issues but why put the elephant in the room. I put most of the blame on audio dealers pushing more products/sales and convincing some it's the ultimate set up, the best of both worlds when the truth is a watered down version of music reproduction. Youtube even has a "Rhinestone Cowboy" that pushes HT integration and a $30k filtering device that IMO is a very poor value proposition. The choice is simple."less is more" when regarding HEA. |
OP, Good to have picked cotton. I use a very densely woven wool carpet (See my virtual system). It weighs at least twenty or thirty pounds. It is highly absorbent and dense. Over the years I have experimented a lot. A couple inches thickness of cotton towels and blankets or couch cushion can simulate something better... to give you the feel. But then either a made for the purpose material is needed or something like what I am using. |
