Veiwing distance.....

If I cant move my speakers any closer together, what is the best happy medium for sight and sound in your guys' opinion?

A bias light might help with fatigue.

Chad,

It depends on whether you care about stereo music. If not, and assuming you use a center channel, let the video consideration be your guide, say 2 to 3 times the image diagonal, but I'd prefer 6' (2 X) rather than 9' (3 X ) for a 36 XBR.

In my experience, good sound is much easier to achieve for movies than for music. My Sony ES receiver was fine for movies, but lacked transparency and openness for music, so I returned to my high-end separates, and moved the receiver to a secondary system.

db

OK thanks, I will try pulling the loveseat up to 6 ft for movies..I just want to be as close as makes sence for a good movie experience.....thanks alot all!

5 feet for standard definition (seating distance is 2.0x to 2.5x times horizontal screen width for standard definition. 1.5x to 2.0 for high definition or 35mm) You might not like to sit that close, but for a real cinematic experience, these numbers are accepted to be best. I sit 12.33 feet back from my 80inch wide (92inch diag) screen. Which works out to a seating distance 1.85 times the width. It's just about perfect. At first it was overwhelming, but now I'm used to it.

I suspect some audiophiles are just trying to *not* justify a front projector [or at least a 65 inch]. ;-)