Would a playbase work for me?

Question

I am planning on using a Sonos System in our new house and had been planning on using a playbar sitting on our mantle with a TV above.

I am now wondering if I could use a playbase off to the sides in the bottom bookshelf, perhaps the white one and it could kind of blend in.

Thoughts, could this work or would it not sound right not being directly in front of the tv

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Airgetlam · Accepted Answer

It's not something I'd want to encourage. Your brain (well, mine, at least) expects to get the sound from the fairly specific location of the screen, so having it off to the side would be odd, at the least, and certainly probably mess with the ability for surround effects from the front 3 speakers in the PLAYBASE, although it might be mitigated (but how much?) by a TruePlay tuning.

That's what I figured. Pretty sure I'm going to do a Playbar on the mantle

mikeb3408 · Answer

It's not something I'd want to encourage. Your brain (well, mine, at least) expects to get the sound from the fairly specific location of the screen, so having it off to the side would be odd, at the least, and certainly probably mess with the ability for surround effects from the front 3 speakers in the PLAYBASE, although it might be mitigated (but how much?) by a TruePlay tuning.

That's what I figured. Pretty sure I'm going to do a Playbar on the mantle

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