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Topic: Sony A95L, K, J: Using Internal Speakers as Passively Driven Center Channel? (Read 818 times) previous topic - next topic
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Sony A95L, K, J: Using Internal Speakers as Passively Driven Center Channel?


Has anyone done this with the A95L, K, J models by using the center speaker level outputs on your AVR, or a separate power amp fed from your AVR's or multichannel (Okto? Exasound?) DAC's center channel line output?

If yes, how acceptably did the TV’s speakers work with your main speakers when playing Dolby Digital or DTS MA center tracks from DVDs and BDs, respectively? 


Off topic question: How far away do you sit from your 55" or 65" TV?

Re: Sony A95L, K, J: Using Internal Speakers as Passively Driven Center Channel?

Reply #1 –
I don't know anything about that TV.   How does it sound?   

I did that a long time ago with a big 'ol rear projection TV.   It wasn't the "best" but not bad because the speakers were bigger and better than what's in a typical flat screen and they were in a good-size wood cabinet.
 

Re: Sony A95L, K, J: Using Internal Speakers as Passively Driven Center Channel?

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Quote from: nmxny24 on

Don't own the A95L yet; trying to determine if the 65" model is too big or not for my field of view at ~ 11 ft.

Hoping this will help when I finish reading it.
https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship

We sit about 10 feet from a 65" LG OLED. I would like to get a 77" display.

Re: Sony A95L, K, J: Using Internal Speakers as Passively Driven Center Channel?

Reply #4 –
Quote from: Glenn Gundlach on
Quote from: nmxny24 on

Don't own the A95L yet; trying to determine if the 65" model is too big or not for my field of view at ~ 11 ft.

Hoping this will help when I finish reading it.
https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship
We sit about 10 feet from a 65" LG OLED. I would like to get a 77" display.
You must have a fairly large room if you prefer the 77". I was in Best Buy last night and at 10 ft the 55" looks too small. And the 65" looks too big; needs to be another foot or so away.

Worse! With $1200.00 in Sony card points due to expire on December 31st, the nasty problem I will face if I choose a 65 over a 55" Sony A95L TV is that because I want to watch it from 11 ft away and want my eyes to fall just below the center of the screen, the bottom of the TV will have to be only ~ 5" above the floor-making it impossible to place any respectably sounding center speaker in between. And mounting the center speaker above the TV is not an option, nor do I want to have the main speakers much closer than 10 ft from me.

The only other option is to go with the 55" and watch that from 11 ft way, a foot or so behind the speakers. And I can't place the 55” TV past the front of the main speakers to be closer to me as that would most likely cause bad early reflections.

If only Revel, Legacy, Wharfdale, Bowers & Wilkins, Monitor Audio or other turnkey HT speaker system brands made an excellent pair of vertical center speakers to be placed to the sides of the TV, and which would complement the directivity pattern of their main speakers.

Suggestions welcomed.