Flatscreen between speakers

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

@spenav thanks.  The idea for the room and the setup has been evolving for a long time, starting before I even had a physical space to build it.  Frankly, even though 5.1 Blu-ray soundtracks sounded great pretty much from day one with multichannel DSP correcting for any latent room issues, it took a long time and a lot of work to get two-channel direct stereo to sound great even though the Arcam has a decent amplifier section.  It wasn’t until fairly recently that I determined the flatscreen was a big part of the problem.  I never listen to two channel music without the screen covered anymore.  Now both analog and digital two channel sound much better in direct stereo sourced from my external front ends than two channel digital processed by the Arcam, due in large part to substantial improvements in those sources combined with the screen covering trick.

Good luck with your efforts to get better sound.

kn