Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Rearranging my room

Long time, no post. I got my Axioms (M60tis, QS8s, VP150, EP175) back in March. Love them. The sub takes a little more power to kick on than I'm allowed to give it after the kids go to bed, but I've managed.

Anyhow, here's my dilemma. I've almost got enough money saved up to replace my little entertainment center (52" cabinet with a 27" TV inside) with a "real" entertainment center (2 21" wide storage/component towers and a 49" wide DLP TV between). The room is 112" wide. Placing all that in the center of the wall leaves approximately 21" for me to place speakers. Fortunately, the M60ti is 9.75" wide at the widest point, so it will _JUST_ fit.

My questions are: How badly will this wreck the sound? Also, WTF am I supposed to do with the subwoofer, which currently has enough room to sit on the floor between one of the speakers and the entertainment center?

Lon

PS (should I go back to trying to convince my lovely wife that a projection unit and a screen with bookshelves behind the screen for storing the media/components is a good idea?)

Hiya Lon,

Glad you're enjoying your system. I'm jealous of your new TV.

Personally, I would hesitate to put the speakers that close to the corner of the room. If I understand you correctly, they would be very close to the side walls. When I had my system in a different room with the right speaker in a corner, the imaging got pretty wonky.

As an alternative to the two towers, perhaps you could get a bench with room for components underneath the TV. Here is an old crappy picture showing my monolith RPCRT with button-boxes below it.

As far as the sub goes, rearrange a bit and find someplace else for it in the room. Positioning at the front of the room is not at all critical, IMO. My SVS is an end table.

My final advice is to give your lovely wife whatever she wants. Happy wife, happy life.

Well, see...the wife wants the two towers. She wants the 'wall' effect...and the speakers would be the edges of the 'wall'.

Nice picture. I don't have the TV yet. I don't have enough saved. At this point, it's a question of waiting until after Christmas (when presumably, the prices will go down) or buying one on sale, should someone have a sale between now and Christmas. However, if this setup will make my sound all "wonky", I might have to invent a new setup, somehow. (maybe I can get away with one tower?)

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I think that has got to be the coolest sig I've ever seen in my life!

I love that sig, too.

If it were me, I'd try to sell the "one tower" idea. Not only are you going to get better fidelity if you have more speaker placement options, but also having that much casework in front of you is going to make the room seem smaller.

How about something like This? I've seen lots of other swanky options, but I can't find them right now.