room setup


I have read several articles including Cardas and the audio perfectionist about room/speaker setup. After many hours of trial an error I have come up with an optimum placement of the speakers.

Practicality dictates that my TV be setup between my speakers about 2 feet behind the front of the speakers. As we all know practicality simply goes out the window with our affliction. It seems to me that not only threoretically but in reality the TV becomes a reflective surface producing negetive imaging, etc. I will probably start experimenting, but its really not easy to move the 32 inch TV and the cabinet that it sits on. Any one want to weigh in on this?
kyneo

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OK. Let's see. A 32" TV you say? (diagonal?) And let's say the front face is represented by a 32" dia. disk. 32" is 2.6 feet. If you let that dimension be the length of the half wave it will reflect, then the full wave dimension is 5.2 feet. If you divide the speed of sound (approx. 1100 ft./sec.) by 5.2, that would be a frequency of 211 Hz.

The TV will be essentially invisible to any sound below that frequency, since it won't reflect them, and as for sounds above 211 Hz, unless you're using a dipole/planar type speaker, there probably will be minimum reflection, since most frequencies above 211 Hz (and certainly above 500 Hz) will be projected forward.