Advice for new house needed - 07/13/08 03:15 AM
Hello everyone.
Unfortunately I am going through a divorce and will have to move. I will get to take all the AV though with me.
The house I am moving to (which I own and was using as a rental) has limited options for AV placement. Basically it can be in a spare bedroom (10.5 x 10.5) that has been converetd to a sitting room, or in the great room.
The great room has a fireplace. With the layout, the only reasonable location is above the fireplace. The room is basically rectangular and 3280 cu ft. (as looking at the fireplace - 19.5 side to side, 16.83 front to back, 10ft high).
I am concerned this placement might be too high, but would like your thoughts. Viewing would be from about 6-9 feet.
In the pic, you will see where the mirror is above the fireplace. The display would go there, leaving 3 inches from the display edge to each side of the vertical mantels, and about 9 inches above the display to the ceiling.
To offer some scale the white/blue striped trim pieces are 9 inches in width. The display is a 46" lcd.
Your thoughts?
My thoughts were if using this location, to locate AVR/disc players, etc equipment to the left of the fireplace against the wall. I could run the wiring inside the trim pieces. The sub would be located out of the picture to the right.
I would forego a center for right now. Thoughts are to purchase a W150 and locate it in/on the horizontal trim piece.
That leads to the thought of also replacing my towers with W22s. located in/on the vertical trim pieces.
Some thoughts I had on that were:
With the room size, would this be enough? I tend to listen loud at times, and power would be a Pio Elite AVR at 140Wx7.
Would there be a negative effect if I mounted the W22s upside down (tweeter on bottom). Thought here is the L/R tweeter would be lower, and closer to on axis with the center (located under the display) as well as phyiscally taken up space more in the middle of the height of the display.
Does any of this make sense? I hope so.
I look forward to your thoughts.
Mark
Unfortunately I am going through a divorce and will have to move. I will get to take all the AV though with me.
The house I am moving to (which I own and was using as a rental) has limited options for AV placement. Basically it can be in a spare bedroom (10.5 x 10.5) that has been converetd to a sitting room, or in the great room.
The great room has a fireplace. With the layout, the only reasonable location is above the fireplace. The room is basically rectangular and 3280 cu ft. (as looking at the fireplace - 19.5 side to side, 16.83 front to back, 10ft high).
I am concerned this placement might be too high, but would like your thoughts. Viewing would be from about 6-9 feet.
In the pic, you will see where the mirror is above the fireplace. The display would go there, leaving 3 inches from the display edge to each side of the vertical mantels, and about 9 inches above the display to the ceiling.
To offer some scale the white/blue striped trim pieces are 9 inches in width. The display is a 46" lcd.
Your thoughts?
My thoughts were if using this location, to locate AVR/disc players, etc equipment to the left of the fireplace against the wall. I could run the wiring inside the trim pieces. The sub would be located out of the picture to the right.
I would forego a center for right now. Thoughts are to purchase a W150 and locate it in/on the horizontal trim piece.
That leads to the thought of also replacing my towers with W22s. located in/on the vertical trim pieces.
Some thoughts I had on that were:
With the room size, would this be enough? I tend to listen loud at times, and power would be a Pio Elite AVR at 140Wx7.
Would there be a negative effect if I mounted the W22s upside down (tweeter on bottom). Thought here is the L/R tweeter would be lower, and closer to on axis with the center (located under the display) as well as phyiscally taken up space more in the middle of the height of the display.
Does any of this make sense? I hope so.
I look forward to your thoughts.
Mark