Will this work?

[Thom71GT]

I am building my home theater in our basement. Our basement is just getting finished so I wired the speakers behind the wall and will be installing in-wall speakers. ALL EXCEPT ONE. The center channel speaker.

I have a Denon Receiver. Pic of the back is attached. Can I connect my Samsung Q60C soundbar to the receiver using the optic cable and it will work with all the rest of the speakers when I have the receiver on Dolby Atmos?

I KNOW it would be ideal to just get an in - wall center channel and wire it to the center connectors in the back of the receiver. I know that. But there is a reason, too long to post here as to why I can't do that.

 

[j_garcia]

I am not sure it will work that way. You'd need to test the output to see if it is active at the same time when you have the rest of the speakers playing. If the soundbar has speaker level inputs, you can connect it that way, as if it were just a speaker.

 

[TLS Guy]

I am building my home theater in our basement. Our basement is just getting finished so I wired the speakers behind the wall and will be installing in-wall speakers. ALL EXCEPT ONE. The center channel speaker.

I have a Denon Receiver. Pic of the back is attached. Can I connect my Samsung Q60C soundbar to the receiver using the optic cable and it will work with all the rest of the speakers when I have the receiver on Dolby Atmos?

I KNOW it would be ideal to just get an in - wall center channel and wire it to the center connectors in the back of the receiver. I know that. But there is a reason, too long to post here as to why I can't do that.

You did not post what receiver it is. However, I have been in the Denon/Marantz universe for a long time. I have never seen an audio optical out. So, I suspect they are both assignable optical inputs. Even if it were an output, which I doubt, I highly doubt it would output to the speakers and the optical out.

Anyhow a sound bar is a lousy center channel. What you need is a passive speaker connected to the center speaker outs. If you can't do that, then just forget having a center speaker.

 

[j_garcia]

From the image, if that is the actual AVR, it says 591. There is only one optical and it is an input.

 

[lovinthehd]

As the others say, not with this gear.

 

[BMXTRIX]

No.

The speaker bar is designed as a stand alone 'surround sound' device. It is not designed to be used with an AV receiver and the small speakers that are in it will not even work well with the other speakers in the room. You should either go with a in-wall to match the rest, or get a on-wall center speaker that will work with the rest, or simply skip the center channel entirely and phantom the center speaker. That is, use it as a 4.1 system instead of a 5.1 system. The receiver will handle that just fine.

There are plenty of on-wall center channels that look similar to a speaker bar which are available.

It would be better to simply get an additional in-wall speaker and put it in the center position.

This is, of course, ignoring that in-walls are not a great solution. But, they are way better than a speaker bar.

 

[lovinthehd]

If you can't go in-wall are there reasons you can't use a passive center channel speaker otherwise?

 

[Wardog555]

You cannot use a soundbar in addadition to an av receiver.

Use the av receiver on its own. And lose the soundbar immediately.

Make sure to place the speakers properly aswell. Avoid in walls where possible as regular bookshelves have greater apund quality for the money.

Stop making excuses and find a way to accommodate the speakers.

I will support you if you make the right choices. This will expire when you make poor choices and excuses for not doing the right thing.

 

[Thom71GT]

You cannot use a soundbar in addadition to an av receiver.

Use the av receiver on its own. And lose the soundbar immediately.

Make sure to place the speakers properly aswell. Avoid in walls where possible as regular bookshelves have greater apund quality for the money.

Stop making excuses and find a way to accommodate the speakers.

I will support you if you make the right choices. This will expire when you make poor choices and excuses for not doing the right thing.

So here's the reason why I can't put in an in-wall speaker. We're building out the basement wall where the TV is going to go. There is a 72" in-wall electric fireplace that sits about 17" off the floor. The TV is an 85" Samsung that mounts to the wall above it. There is a mantel that will separate the TV and the fireplace. Once the mantel is installed, there are literally only a few inches that separate the bottom of the TV and the mantel. All in-wall center channel speakers are about 5 - 6 inches tall. There is literally no room. I've seen Samsung sound bars that are only a couple of inches tall and that would fit, but apparently, I can't use a sound bar with my surround system.

I need to find an on-wall center channel speaker that is very thin. Any suggestions?

 

[TLS Guy]

So here's the reason why I can't put in an in-wall speaker. We're building out the basement wall where the TV is going to go. There is a 72" in-wall electric fireplace that sits about 17" off the floor. The TV is an 85" Samsung that mounts to the wall above it. There is a mantel that will separate the TV and the fireplace. Once the mantel is installed, there are literally only a few inches that separate the bottom of the TV and the mantel. All in-wall center channel speakers are about 5 - 6 inches tall. There is literally no room. I've seen Samsung sound bars that are only a couple of inches tall and that would fit, but apparently, I can't use a sound bar with my surround system.

I need to find an on-wall center channel speaker that is very thin. Any suggestions?

The trouble is that you have gone about this wrong. You don't put TVs above fire places. It gets the TV too high and your can't use the fireplace unless it makes no heat. Heat kills electronics.

If you must, just don't use a center. A center with those dimensions, will literally be worse than useless. Just use right and left speakers. If you can switch the room around. You have a bad design.

 

[DigitalDawn]

Here's how I see it. You can either go with a really, really good soundbar, or InCeiling Speakers that are angled towards the listening position. If installed correctly, the ceiling option will place the sound directly from the wall in front of you.

Triad Speakers has options for both:

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[BMXTRIX]

Someday, those who insist upon a fireplace, will install a model like this, with their heat shift system, so that the TV can be as low as 30" from the floor. Around a foot and a half lower than where they often end up above fireplaces. Plus, it actually is moving the heat from the face of the fireplace to elsewhere in the room.

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