Re: Re: Hey everyone, I'm back with a new big project!!!
I know exactly what you're talking about. Please remember, that is just a very basic "quickie" drawing I did. In the real world, I plan on building that shelf out to the grill, which will also be angled up slightly. It would be so in such a way that the center channel is actually hanging about two inches past the shelf and almost touching the subwoofer grill cloth at the top of the cabinet.
dscline said:
I'll leave the PR sub suggestions to those who know more about the topic. But I do have a suggestion about your design: if possible, you may want to re-think the bowed out design. I think that may adversely affect the sound quality of your center channel. The top panel can interfere with the direct output of the drivers, and reflections from the bottom panel can also muddy up the sound. I have my TV and audio equipment in a large armoire (big enough for my 46" TV). Most of my components are on a shelf immediately above the TV, with a stack of components on the left, another stack of components on the right, and there's JUST enough room between the two stacks for my center channel. The front of the center channel is normally relatively flush with the front of everything else (TV screen, front face of components, front edges of shelf and armoire cabinet), but I can still notice a sound difference between having the front of the center flush, and pulling the speaker out so it hangs over the shelf a few inches (therefore causing it to stick out a few inches past everything else). There is simply a more open sound when the speaker is brought out away from the rest of those boundaries.
I simply think having your center recessed back into that cabinet might cause the same problem. If you went with the same design, but brought the center channel out as far as it will go, and cut back the top panel such that it didn't cover the center channel speaker, I think you could mostly avoid this. You could bring the grill cloth from the center grill up over the top to still keep the center channel invisible.
I know exactly what you're talking about. Please remember, that is just a very basic "quickie" drawing I did. In the real world, I plan on building that shelf out to the grill, which will also be angled up slightly. It would be so in such a way that the center channel is actually hanging about two inches past the shelf and almost touching the subwoofer grill cloth at the top of the cabinet.