Originally posted by jupiterone
did you see my tv then?
i got a 40 inch HD with a 5.1 recently and rearranged the whole place
that tv couldn't get loud even at max volume
Yeah, that TV was a POS.
Jul-14-2010 01:56
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Jul-14-2010 01:57
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Jul-14-2010 01:58
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Wouldn't this be a lot easier if we had a diagram to scale, and possibly the measurements of the couch and TV?
+1 putting the center speaker above the TV, it makes a surprising difference if you've never done it before
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Jul-14-2010 06:59
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quote:
Originally posted by jupiterone
stay away from corners with a tv, especially surround sound systems. corners are the worst for bass, plus with the stand, the corners and the walls in general, it will just trap and bounce off of them. also it'll be difficult to really set up a 5.1 system when your tv is sitting in a corner
also mount the center above the tv, not too high however, i'd say 8-12 inches (20-30 centimeters) maybe even spread the back speakers out a little bit more. and make sure the couch is in the center of the left wall and the speakers are evenly spaced from everything
In an ideal world that is exactly how I'd want it. However, I made mention in my post that the width of the room is very small. Ignore the length of the diagram below for a minute as I know the proportions are all wrong, but if I was to arrange it like you've done it would actually look more like this:
The sofa would be too close to the TV and the small gap between would just look silly.
Unfortunately I won't have the exact measurements until I move in on Friday/Saturday so I can't do a proper to scale diagram. I have just found a picture though on the house brochure. This is how the previous owners had it set up:
It's a shame because all the other rooms in the house are massive.
Jul-14-2010 13:55
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If you're prepared to spend a small amount of money, you could rip the wall open, put some extra studs in there and then build a simple partially recessed storage cavity which actual sits inside the wall. I assume the walls aren't masonry? Then you could mount the TV above that and have all the cables nicely concealed inside the wall. It wouldn't cost that much, and you could sell your existing TV cabinet.
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Jul-14-2010 19:55
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do u have a tv that can be mounted on the wall? if so that clears up a lot of space..some nice wallbrackets to hold up ur surround/cable box/video game systems etc..
Originally posted by Domesticated
If you're prepared to spend a small amount of money, you could rip the wall open, put some extra studs in there and then build a simple partially recessed storage cavity which actual sits inside the wall. I assume the walls aren't masonry? Then you could mount the TV above that and have all the cables nicely concealed inside the wall. It wouldn't cost that much, and you could sell your existing TV cabinet.
quote:
Originally posted by DjWhooCares
do u have a tv that can be mounted on the wall? if so that clears up a lot of space..some nice wallbrackets to hold up ur surround/cable box/video game systems etc..
similar to this
I really like the look of that. How exactly do you get the cables to go behind the wall though? And how expensive is it to do? And how much of a ball ache is it to change if a cable needs replacing? And what sort of work are you looking at if you want to take the TV down and put it all back to normal? Questions, questions, questions.
Those long shelves underneath for the boxes look really nice too. I am designing a rather elaborate media centre so would probably end up filling both of those long shelves with equipment. Could end up looking rather sexy.