Speaker Placement Question

[puppet]

It’s an optical illusion until he lays a straight edge on it.

Try bending a sheet of plate or tempered glass and post back.

 

[AdamG]

Try bending a sheet of plate or tempered glass and post back.

Glass and Tempered Glass will bend under loaded conditions. It will bend to a point and then shatter.

https://www.pilkington.com/en-gb/uk...ass/mechanicalfunctionsofglass/glass-strength
Second paragraph of above link: “When glass is under load it will bend and accommodate stress to a certain level and then suddenly fail once its threshold is met. The failure can be sudden and spectacular. “

https://qr.ae/pNQndP

 

[kiwifi]

Thank you-this is the type of answer I was looking for! So the plaster walls behind the speakers isn't good?

All the surfaces of a room color the sound to some extent. Your job is to mitigate that as best you can, by using good speaker and listener placement, and by acoustically treating the room.

 

[Rottmannash]

Glass and Tempered Glass will bend under loaded conditions. It will bend to a point and then shatter.

https://www.pilkington.com/en-gb/uk...ass/mechanicalfunctionsofglass/glass-strength
Second paragraph of above link: “When glass is under load it will bend and accommodate stress to a certain level and then suddenly fail once its threshold is met. The failure can be sudden and spectacular. “

https://qr.ae/pNQndP

Thank goodness the g

lass shelves have aluminum struts underpinning them.

 

[AdamG]

I’m not picking on you Bro. I hope your not taking it that way. Friends helping friends here. Can’t tell what that is a pic of?

 

[Rottmannash]

I’m not picking on you Bro. I hope your not taking it that way. Friends helping friends here. Can’t tell what that is a pic of?

Nah- it's all good. Just don't want anyone to worry. That a terrible photo of the underside of the middle shelf. I was trying to show there is bracing under there.