Cohesion, unfortunatelly I don't have the ability to gain any more space from the wall in my setup. I'll give more details to make things more clear. I was able to fully customise my setup when I purchased my house 2 yrs ago. The best possible placement for my speakers led me to frame over my 1970 masonary fireplace and tile over the brick base that sits 13" high and 18.5" deep. All wiring was run in wall to all speakers as I remodeled my livingroom. I used 2 layers of 1/2" drywall sandwhiched with green glue as an acoustical experiment. I built my audio rack out of sanded plywood to suit my equipment. My rack measures 17" deep by 40.5" wide. From the floor, the center of my VP150 is 49" high. My TV sits directly above the VP150. My M60's are also on the tile base(or stage) on each side of my rack with 59" of seperation. I have them slightly toed in toward the main listening spot, which is my couch. The distance from my mains and center channel to my ears is 13ft.
I'm now thinking the VP160 may be the better option at the moment, but would require modifications to my audio rack. This would be no easy task. It would require the removal of all my equipment and dismanteling the bottom trim of the rack(which is glued and screwed) and ripping 2.75" off the bottom to allow for the extra height of the VP160. What do you guys think? Is the VP160 worth all that trouble? I'd like to add a few photos. Is there a simple way to add them to a post? Thanks for your input.
