I am upgrading my AV system and I am running into a challenge of how to configure things without my room looking like a stereo store showroom.
I have a new Samsung 50B860 plasma that I plan to mount on the wall in my den. The room is only 10' x 12'. I currently have the Energy Take 5 system with a Polk subwoofer. The speakers work fine but I clearly could have better sound with bigger boxes. The trouble I have is that bigger boxes sure look weird, especially in a small room. My TV is only 1.2 inch thick so when it is wall-mounted it protrudes less than 3 inches from the wall. Most larger center channel speaker's and satellites quickly expand to 8" deep, 10", or more. It seems to me that a slim plasma would look pretty funny wall-mounted over a center channel that is 20 x 7 x 10 like the Energy C-100.
I might be able to live with a couple of tower front speakers so long as they didn't stick out 12" from the wall. For example, there is a guy on these forums selling his Wharfedale Pacific Evolution-30s. Great price, good value, and he lives not too far from me. But the speakers are 11'' deep. Are there any good speakers with a small footprint? And that still leaves what to do with the center channel.
How do you guys solve this problem? That is, you guys who can't or don't want to live in a stereo showroom?
Live with limited sound from slim-design speakers? For example I can get a great price on the Energy FPS center channel and use it with my Energy satellites. Other ideas?
I have a new Samsung 50B860 plasma that I plan to mount on the wall in my den. The room is only 10' x 12'. I currently have the Energy Take 5 system with a Polk subwoofer. The speakers work fine but I clearly could have better sound with bigger boxes. The trouble I have is that bigger boxes sure look weird, especially in a small room. My TV is only 1.2 inch thick so when it is wall-mounted it protrudes less than 3 inches from the wall. Most larger center channel speaker's and satellites quickly expand to 8" deep, 10", or more. It seems to me that a slim plasma would look pretty funny wall-mounted over a center channel that is 20 x 7 x 10 like the Energy C-100.
I might be able to live with a couple of tower front speakers so long as they didn't stick out 12" from the wall. For example, there is a guy on these forums selling his Wharfedale Pacific Evolution-30s. Great price, good value, and he lives not too far from me. But the speakers are 11'' deep. Are there any good speakers with a small footprint? And that still leaves what to do with the center channel.
How do you guys solve this problem? That is, you guys who can't or don't want to live in a stereo showroom?
