Center Speaker Help

coyb
coyb Posts: 4
edited October 2012 in Speakers
ok. so i am getting a house built and i just went and measured where all my speakers are going to go. come to find out there is a double 2x4 stub right in the middle of where the center speaker should be mounted in the wall. my wife does not like speakers that sit on top of the entertainment center.

so my question is the center speaker a specific speaker? like is it wired a certain way?

what should i do??
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  • zane77
    zane77 Posts: 1,696
    edited October 2012
    You're center should be from the same series as your front left and right so you have a matching front sound stage. Not as important in the surrounds
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  • coyb
    coyb Posts: 4
    edited October 2012
    i did plan on getting the same series. however the in wall center will not be centered in the wall above the tv. which will drive me crazy. so i can not do that plus it would not look good. what to do? what to do?
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  • SDA1C
    SDA1C Posts: 2,072
    edited October 2012
    Why not frame in a submount box for your center? If you don't have a center speaker in it the wife can put some pictures or something. If you are building whats the biggies about custom in wall sound?
    Too much **** to list....
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  • coyb
    coyb Posts: 4
    edited October 2012
    SDA1C wrote: »
    Why not frame in a submount box for your center? If you don't have a center speaker in it the wife can put some pictures or something. If you are building whats the biggies about custom in wall sound?

    i am sorry but what is a submount box? about mounting the center in the wall, well i cant. where the tv is going to be mounted is a load beam in the middle. so the speaker would not be centered with the tv.
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  • SDA1C
    SDA1C Posts: 2,072
    edited October 2012
    A recess in the wall. Seems to me if the TV is going in the center of the wall it would be possible to to put two load studs in and cut the wall in thirds instead of one in the middle. There is always the ability to build speaker boxes in the wall and put on driver on either side of the load stud.
    Too much **** to list....
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  • coyb
    coyb Posts: 4
    edited October 2012
    They have already started to sheet rock.
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  • badchad
    badchad Posts: 348
    edited October 2012
    Consider mounting a shelf on the wall, and placing the center on the shelf.
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