I am ready for TRUTH, I can handle the TRUTH

I did a thread about this a year or so ago...but the thing that having a TV is an audio system that is the big concern..is your cable signal.

I have never seen a cable feed that doesn't have serious noise and DC voltage on the ground. Once this DC voltage gets onto the grounds of you power and systems..the sonic impact is far from subtle...most of you actually don't know what your missing if it has been a long time...or never, since you had just an audio system.

You can check this two ways. Get someone to lend you a voltmeter and measure the ground on the cable TV feed. But even better , and this is assuming a home, go outside and disconect the cable where it comes into your home and the cable ground that has been attached to that pipe that serves as your AC ground. Then go inside and disconnect the TV cable/digital box completely from your system...inc. AC power. Then, after this simplification, just connect your best source component to you amplification..and listen. Noise floor will be lower, voices will bloom...and listener fatigue will drop a great deal. (If your not familiar with cable/ground...etc. you might get a friend to help you...don't want anyone screwing up their system....or getting a shock..even if it is only static shock).

So, what I am saying is the worst thing about televisions and their related gear is: they screw up the sound.

I suffer from Farleytitties, but am now on a diet!

push the tv to the back wall and refocus your speakers based on the new image characteristics

get a second system for the video if you are really into 2 channel

i like to sit on my tv remote it seems to elevate me beyond 6db closer to 9db, and believe me that is alot of headroom

I have a 53" TV inbetween my front speakers, and my friends really wonder how I get the kind of imaging I get (which is very good).

The key as stated above, is to push the TV back against the wall as far as possible and bring the speakers forward so they clear the TV. With this configuration, the TV can make a minimal impact on soundstage. Or at least the TV will make A LOT less impact on the soundstage than the speakers NOT clearing the TV (the TV anctually being in the same plane as the TV.

KF

Albert has his monitor on rollers & actually removes it from the listenng room altogether for serious 2 channel performance, then rolls it back into place for video. Realize that's not what you wanted to hear but there it is; the blanket method is better than nothing though.
Why not just try it with / without blanket/ vs. completely removed, & find out what happens?