Center Channel ABOVE LED Display on Fireplace???

[rpr13]

Anybody have any experience, or pictures, of center channel speakers mounted above flat panel displays that are mounted over fireplaces???

The only other option is mounting it below the mantel, but it will take too muchg heat and I ereally think it will actually look better above the fireplace. If I put it approx. 4 feet above the top of my display (which will put it about 10' above floor level) it will be at the same height of some fairly extreme trim around my great room. I think it will look OK along this natural break around my room.

All thoughts are welcome. Thanks.

 

[just-some-guy]

If I put it approx. 4 feet above the top of my display (which will put it about 10' above floor level)

idk man. sure, you can put it there. but i doubt it will integrate well.

 

[6L6X4]

Can you post a picture of your room and the proposed set-up? 10' sounds way too high to me. Is a phantom center an option?

 

[highfigh]

Anybody have any experience, or pictures, of center channel speakers mounted above flat panel displays that are mounted over fireplaces???

The only other option is mounting it below the mantel, but it will take too muchg heat and I ereally think it will actually look better above the fireplace. If I put it approx. 4 feet above the top of my display (which will put it about 10' above floor level) it will be at the same height of some fairly extreme trim around my great room. I think it will look OK along this natural break around my room.

All thoughts are welcome. Thanks.

Building code forbids any flammable material within 8" of the sides of the fireplace opening and 12" from the top.

How high is the mantle, what are the dimensions of the center channel speaker/TV, how high and how much space will be open above the TV? Have you thought about not using a center channel speaker? Placing it too high doesn't sound right.

 

[TLS Guy]

Anybody have any experience, or pictures, of center channel speakers mounted above flat panel displays that are mounted over fireplaces???

The only other option is mounting it below the mantel, but it will take too muchg heat and I ereally think it will actually look better above the fireplace. If I put it approx. 4 feet above the top of my display (which will put it about 10' above floor level) it will be at the same height of some fairly extreme trim around my great room. I think it will look OK along this natural break around my room.

All thoughts are welcome. Thanks.

Do not mount TVs above fireplaces. We get this issue all the time. The TV is too high and the heat will shorten the life of the TV considerably, and they can go up in flames. Come up with a better plan.

 

[6L6X4]

Fireplaces are often the focal point of a room and it's understandable that is also where people would want to place a display, but IMO above a fireplace is way too high. Do you really want to be looking up for 2 hours to watch a movie? Not me.

My 50" Sammy is only 10 inches off the floor, but from the couch looking straight into it my line of vision is vertically centered on the screen. As it should be.

 

[zhimbo]

All thoughts are welcome. Thanks.

Don't put it over the fireplace. That solves all sorts of problems, including the eventual being sick-and-tired of watching a TV that's mounted too high.

If there is literally no other option, such as your room is built entirely out of fireplaces, I wouldn't use a center channel at all.

 

[Chicagorep]

God...I don't know what the fixation is with putting a flat screen over the fireplace. It's a TV not a family portrait. The TV ends being to high for comforatable viewing, the heat kills the TV and speaker placement is never right.
In replying to the OP, don't use a center channel, go with a phantom center instead. Unless you like to hear voices from the heavens.

 

[sawzalot]

People have been putting the panels over the fireplace for as long as I can remember, right or wrong some folks don't care they just want it there and no matter what is said they don't care, must be the Metro. Home thing. I have seen this done countless times and when I try to point out all the reasons why not I usually get one response, it's the only place in the room for the panel, oh please.I don't say anything any more just do it , I really don't have the patience to change the minds of the A/V challenged people.
I will say this, some folks that I have helped to install this way do not have the room set-up as an HT so yes in deed they hang the panel over the fireplace as some excuse at art work, it looks awesome there and look at my new status, lol.
These same peeps usually have some other room that they set up the surround sound and enough furniture for the family to watch TV but they always have some "other" type of TV in there while the 2500.00 flat panel is just for show in the living room, really funny,really

 

[WaynePflughaupt]

Four days and the OP has not weighed back in. I think you guys scared him off – LOL!

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

 

[bandphan]

Four days and the OP has not weighed back in. I think you guys scared him off – LOL!

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

And I was just going to comment on the "LED" display

 

[ShamilIgla451]

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[ChicagoLR3]

I am actually in the same boat. The problem is the room was set up with the fireplace as the focal point and for the TV to sit on, i.e. cable connections are there. The solution I am looking at involves getting a keyboard stand with a top level that can be angled so i can point the center channel towards the seating like this http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/product/On-Stage-Stands-Deluxe-X-2Tier-Keyboard-Stand?sku=450339&CJAID=10451188&CJPID=3136390 As a result, the center channel will be approx. 10ft above ground level, but the center channel will be pointed directly at the sitting position. Furthermore, as the height of the stand is adjustable, it can be set up, so only the center channel is visible, with the rest of the stand hidden behind the TV.

Luckily for me, we dont ever use the fireplace, so the heat issues involving longevity are a non-issue. Also, moving the TV off of the fireplace is not conducive as cable lines would need to be hidden for a large distance. Yes a phantom center is possible, but as the wife and I constantly watch movies, I would like an actual center channel to improve dialog intelligibility

As for the LED tv comment, I actually have an LED tv too. In know is actually an LCD tv with a different lighting strategy, and not actually LED's, but considering that's what the industry as a whole calls them, its understandable he would use the same term.