Yet another "hard room thread"

[Roscoe]

My first post...please be gentle

I assembled a beginners HT system for a specific room (Denon AVR-1804, Mirage AVS-200/600 speakers, Sammy 56" DLP)... and then we moved. The new room is almost a perfect square (16x18), but the wife insists on putting the TV in on corner and the viewing sofa in the opposite corner with each end of the sofa touching the wall; this leaves about 3 feet behind the sofa and the corner of the room. No compromise possible.

Beside the fact the viewing distance is double what the TV was sized for (56"), I can't figure out where to put the rear surround speakers. My system is a 6.1 so I need to place 3 speakers. Ceiling is normal height. I thought about putting the speakers at each end of the sofa, but that puts them awfully close to the listeners. I also thought about in the wall, but the wife refuses to allow and wall or ceiling mounted speakers because the next owners of the house won't like it (sigh...). Ideas??

I also considered one of those newfangled sound bars that bounce the sound off the walls...except that one side of the room has no wall. Today I saw the Polk "Audio SurroundBar" that doesn't use wall bounce but rather destructive interference to generate the surround sound effect. It sounded OK in the showroom but...any thoughts on this product?

Any comment or recommendations would be helpful.

 

[bpape]

Sounds to me like you need to buy some new equipment

or

Maybe make a man cave for yourself in the basement? .... and just have a normal TV in that room set up the way she wants it?

If neither of those are viable options, you'll likely just have to live with laying the surrounds on the floor behind the couch firing up. It's not optimal but better than the other alternatives.

Bryan

 

[Davemcc]

Here's what you do. In that 3 foot space behind the couch, build a small wooden frame around the triangular shape of the space and drop a bedsheet over the top of the frame, like a tent. You crawl into your tent and stay in there all day playing video poker until she demands that you come out of there. At his point, you tell her "No, I don't want to come out. Not until we move the couch to where it belongs. Until then, this is my fort and you can't make me come out."

 

[Roscoe]

Here's what you do. In that 3 foot space behind the couch, build a small wooden frame around the triangular shape of the space and drop a bedsheet over the top of the frame, like a tent. You crawl into your tent and stay in there all day playing video poker until she demands that you come out of there. At his point, you tell her "No, I don't want to come out. Not until we move the couch to where it belongs. Until then, this is my fort and you can't make me come out."

You, I like!

Shame that isn't practical

 

[DrunkenWolf]

Here's what you do. In that 3 foot space behind the couch, build a small wooden frame around the triangular shape of the space and drop a bedsheet over the top of the frame, like a tent. You crawl into your tent and stay in there all day playing video poker until she demands that you come out of there. At his point, you tell her "No, I don't want to come out. Not until we move the couch to where it belongs. Until then, this is my fort and you can't make me come out."

omg.

I'm so trying that.