This perceptual battle between ears and eyes may cause irritation and listening fatigue, or if your ears win the perceptual battle (which happens for many people) then you will perceive a change in height of the soundstage as sounds pan from side to side through the center channel. If your center channel is below the height of the L/R speakers, your ears will pick that up and your brain will process the sound as being somewhere other than where the visual clues (screen) say it should be. Human ears have evolved to accurately localize sound at eye level and below, but have more difficulty localizing sound coming from overhead. You will almost always be better off with the speaker above rather than below the TV/Screen. I think I'm going to take the advice to DIY something for on top of the TV for now until I have the RPTV, and maybe even experiment with it if I can find something of the proper height to put the center on in front of the set as well, then I should be able to decide before I get the RPTV and order the center stand if necessary. Plus the center stands angle upward slightly. So one reason I was thinking about the stand for the center is I did figure it would put the center tweeter a little closer to the height of the mains, at worst, 1 foot below vs 2 feet above I'm guessing. The speakers are about 11" high and I'm estimating the tweeter as 8" up the speaker so one of those stand heights should put the tweeter at ear level. My center will be a JBL S-Center, my mains are S38II bookshelf speakers, I plan to put them on either 24" or 30" Wood Tech metal stands (once I measure listening level, I move into this apartment next week, I have the speakers, haven't ordered stands yet). ![]() ![]() So I'm just looking for any reasoning I might have missed, or if its a matter of personal preference, what do you prefer and why? I read an article suggesting on top was preferable but w/o any specific reason, plus I figure if you had a front projector you'd have no choice but to put it below (unless you wall mounted the center speaker). I kind of like the look and idea of the below placement with an RPTV but a lot of people seem to put theirs on top too. Mainly I'd like to avoid buying 2 $30-40 stands (the shelf top vs the down-in-front). ![]() My question is basically is there any particular reason to choose above over below or vice versa? So the center channel will probably go on top of his TV but if it won't sit there securely I may have to get the Sanus TV-top shelf, or possibly just wedge something in behind the speaker (though that doesn't sound like the greatest idea acoustically).Īnyway, I'm thinking when I get the RPTV I might get a center stand, the kind that goes down in front of the TV. This is probably a pretty trivial question, but I figured I'd ask it anyway since I can't quite seem to decide based on the information I have.īasically, I'm putting together an HT setup with my roommate and until I buy a nice big HD RPTV, we're using his analog 25" Sharp (*shudder*).
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