As in, occupying the 'space' where the phantom center manifests itself.
One sees a lot of setups like this in photos of rooms: racks of gear that come up at least to the level of the woofers, if not the tweeters. Stuck smack in the middle of front left and right. The rack might be front-aligned with the speakers, or set back from their baffle plane. There might be vertical space between the components in the rack, or they could form a nearly solid tower.
Surely all this has some effect on the propagation of sound in the room to the MLP? Or is any effect mostly psychological?
Thoughts, best/worst practices?
One sees a lot of setups like this in photos of rooms: racks of gear that come up at least to the level of the woofers, if not the tweeters. Stuck smack in the middle of front left and right. The rack might be front-aligned with the speakers, or set back from their baffle plane. There might be vertical space between the components in the rack, or they could form a nearly solid tower.
Surely all this has some effect on the propagation of sound in the room to the MLP? Or is any effect mostly psychological?
Thoughts, best/worst practices?