Flatscreen between speakers

@knownothing. Well, you’re better off than I 😄. I see that you have your own room. Your system looks pretty nice. I would think that your soundstage depth be ok since your speakers were designed to be wall mounted. Don’t be afraid of using DSP to make things better. The technology is quite mature nowadays. Your cover looks quite cool. I was shooting for something similar but all I could find was black cotton. I plan on putting a thick backing to the front to improve the acoustics. I bought some cotton batting and some medium-loft batting (cheaper at Hobby Lobby) yesterday and will put them together as soon as I receive the cover (taking way too long). I will give my honest opinion as soon as I get that project going. If that doesn’t work as expected, I will put something more substantive together and share the blueprint with the group. I appreciate your input. 

I used some cheap diffusers and absorber off Amazon and put them on foam board in a frame so it was light weight to put up for serious listening. Eliminates glare and adds depth. I might build something automated some day. Liked it so much I put one over the fireplace on a secondary system. I didn’t like just the diffusion or just absorbers.

I used to have some Gik panels mounted on some aluminum planks, but they were too heavy to move.

@kubla36 cool!

@devinplombier 

Doesn’t your LG OLED have built-in works of art to make it look like a picture frame?

I think these OLEDs are brilliant and the very thin panels have almost no effect on sound transmission or reflections.  Sony’s version fires its main speaker through the panel.

I can see that my old Pioneer plasma may have some sonic effect, because it is glass faced and so thick and heavy.  But really, how much sound do most speakers manage to spray out sideways?  Or is the TV panel complicit in re-reflecting sound waves bounced back off the wall behind the listener?

I am thinking about (real) cinemas seating hundreds in a rectangular space, some well to the sides, where a centre speaker behind a fabric screen does make sense for some of the people some of the time.

@richardbrand I have a recent model OLED Samsung flatscreen with a very thin (scarily so) panel and covering it makes a noticeable improvement in the center image stereo music reproduction.  This may be unique to my room and the placement of my speakers relative to my flatscreen, but the improvement is on par with the benefits of covering my similarly sized plasma screen that preceded my current TV.  
kn