Hi there, I have a question for the speaker makers/designers.
I'm renovating our lounge room and planning on building a large wall unit to house the television, stereo and bookshelves.
I would like to incorporate a couple of cavities in the unit for some custom speaker cabinets. I'm thinking that I might make the spaces large enough to allow me to experiment with different speaker cabinet sizes. But overall, the speakers will look like they're part of the bookshelf.
I'm thinking of experimenting with a pair of full range drivers in ported boxes, or maybe a two way set up.
I know there are issues with placing speakers close to the walls/corners of a room, and ultimately it's best to play around with placement. But we also want the unit to look like one piece of furniture.
I've made a basic rendering of what we're thinking of achieving below. Can anyone impart any advice if they have tried something like this before? Is this the worst idea in the world? Or are there ways to get a half decent result from something like this?
(For reference, this is a very large room, 8m x 5m with a 3m ceiling height. Speakers will be driven by a NAD C320 amp).
Many thanks
I'm renovating our lounge room and planning on building a large wall unit to house the television, stereo and bookshelves.
I would like to incorporate a couple of cavities in the unit for some custom speaker cabinets. I'm thinking that I might make the spaces large enough to allow me to experiment with different speaker cabinet sizes. But overall, the speakers will look like they're part of the bookshelf.
I'm thinking of experimenting with a pair of full range drivers in ported boxes, or maybe a two way set up.
I know there are issues with placing speakers close to the walls/corners of a room, and ultimately it's best to play around with placement. But we also want the unit to look like one piece of furniture.
I've made a basic rendering of what we're thinking of achieving below. Can anyone impart any advice if they have tried something like this before? Is this the worst idea in the world? Or are there ways to get a half decent result from something like this?
(For reference, this is a very large room, 8m x 5m with a 3m ceiling height. Speakers will be driven by a NAD C320 amp).
Many thanks
If the cabinets go into the wall and their baffles are flush with the wall surface then that's a large room-size baffle wall that has multiple benefits. Simply building the cabinets into a TV stand is similar to building them as boxes the regular way.
https://blogs.qsc.com/cinema/2020/05/21/hows-and-whys-of-baffle-walls/?lang=nl
The baffle wall is suitable for both projection and TV. People who take the TV route can simply get a flat panel that could be wall mounted. All the large ugly boxes including the subwoofers are easily concealed.
It is always a good idea to plan such architectural things in advance.
https://blogs.qsc.com/cinema/2020/05/21/hows-and-whys-of-baffle-walls/?lang=nl
The baffle wall is suitable for both projection and TV. People who take the TV route can simply get a flat panel that could be wall mounted. All the large ugly boxes including the subwoofers are easily concealed.
It is always a good idea to plan such architectural things in advance.