r/TVTooHigh • u/Rexaroooo • 17h ago

My situation

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Sitting 11 ish feet from the tv (83”), bottom edge of the tv is 35” off the ground, eyes are 40” off the ground, math says roughly 6.5 degrees vertical angle to the center and 30 degrees FOV

Not ideal but not bad enough to fix? What do we think

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u/SelectivePressure 7h ago

Bring your centre speaker closer to the edge in order to reduce acoustic reflections from the platform.

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u/Rexaroooo 6h ago

You’re nuts for catching that lol. I normally have it at the edge but was experimenting with very slightly angling it upwards and raising the couch vs doing all this carpentry to get the viewing angle better

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u/JMtxz 17h ago

Ehh its fine

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u/Bill_Money 17h ago

I think do some woodwork and move that center into the stand (make it fit right and be as high as possible angled up) then lower your TV

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u/Rexaroooo 17h ago

That’s the dilemma, I could lower the entire middle part (about the length of the 3 middle cubby things) by about 10”, change the moulding, and lower everything by said 10” and it would no doubt be just about ideal, especially since I could get away with moving the couch a little closer too.

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u/moving_to_NL_soon 9h ago

Math? .....I like math! Indeed you prove my point that the center does not really need to be at 42", especially at distance. Neck and eyes can easily compensate.

Looks great!

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u/teckel 16h ago

I think you made the built-in cabinet under the TV too high. Or, you didn't make the center space wide enough for your center speaker, forcing you to mount the TV higher.

Fix it.

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u/Rexaroooo 15h ago

Ha. Yeah, I didn’t make this built in it was there when I moved in

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u/teckel 6h ago

Still, fix it. Or get a smaller center speaker at least so it fits in the built in. There's solutions.

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u/Rexaroooo 6h ago

It’s not a matter of if just when. You can’t or at least shouldn’t put a center speaker in a small enclosed space. 3/4 of your home theater sound comes from this speaker so it’d be dumb to compromise that for a few degrees. So it’s a big job to cut out the entire built in, drywall, re wire paint etc for a sake of a few degrees.. but I will do it eventually

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u/wupaa 13h ago

Both

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u/bigtonysop 9h ago

Mate that’s absolutely fine. Don’t create unnecessary work and stress. Just enjoy your system. Looks great.

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u/Classic_Steak4987 11h ago

i see no issues

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u/Murphy_York 3h ago

I don’t know why you didn’t just place the TV on the built in stand thing

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u/Rexaroooo 3h ago

I know this sub gets a massive erection whenever somebody uses a tv stand and I get it. But the center channel was just slightly too tall and I already had the mount. The mount lets me put the tv exactly the height I need it to be for less than 1/4” of clearance from the center speaker

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u/SvynEcho777 2h ago

ummm do you also have the Klipsch subwoofer with this?

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u/CreosoteEcho 16h ago

Yeah, it sucks, as is.

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u/Vi0let__Ice 15h ago

The horn tweeters on the Klipsch are worse than the tv height. lol

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u/RadlEonk 5h ago

It’s too high but you need minor construction to fix it.

The backlighting is an abomination and should be dismantled.

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u/Rexaroooo 3h ago

It’s much more subtle in person, the camera ISO was just too high and overexposed everything

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u/Kind_Thanks4322 15h ago

I think you could get some homepods (assuming you’re in apples ecosystem and have apple tv) on each side to replace the current speakers, and get a larger tv on a stand instead of wall mounted, and visually would be a lot more balanced

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u/Rexaroooo 15h ago

I think you might be having a stroke