How about a lower stand (and a BL 7-1/2/6)?

MM

Like this or with a smaller/less wide BL7 as center:

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Well my plan was an avant 75 but that would overpower this room perhaps

Maybe to the left of the bay angled across the first window with the lab9’s either side.

Completely unsure of layout now and moving a BV7-55 is not an easy task.

Something lower to the floor like an 11-55 on a MFS would look a lot less imposing.  I have one for sale (Mk2 - WISA), as well as my Avant 75!!

An Avant 75 would dominate the room, for sure.. but some people like that!

Lee

 

I agree the -55 is dominating in the bay. Any chance it could go on the wall opposite the couch ?

One great BV !

1) It would bother me that the TV is directly in front of a radiant hot-water heating panel.  Moving it to a lower stand will block even more of the panel! Never mind that heat in the room will be compromised, expect that your TV will overheat!  That kind of panel sometimes does have a front and back with air convection spacers inbetween, but it is still basically a *radiator* out the front side.  (Maybe I worry too much, but I have a BeoVision 10 that overheats in Florida when hung flush to the wall, and must be pulled away, despite its up/down venting slots.)  You say you had your system in a bay window before, so maybe you already have good experience with a similar heating setup?

2) Maybe it's temporary, but you already have located the sofa to watch on the opposite wall!  I would take the TV out of the bay window and put it where the previous owner clearly intended it to go, given the existing electrical receptacles & CATV poke-thrus.  But then you have the problem of slap-echoes across such a narrow room, thus probably don't want to have your external speakers whipping up a storm of volume.  

Humph.  Sorry to sound so negative, especially when you're just moving in to a new place, which is always exciting.  But I would move my system to the living room, which presumably has better proportions than this small-ish den.  The system is certainly pretty enough...

 

trackbeo wrote:

But I would move my system to the living room, which presumably has better proportions than this small-ish den.

Ha. I can't speak directly for Sean but In the U.k. this is often the size of a living room, not a den!

Morning

Yeah the living room is larger than we had before.

You are right it needs to go to the left of the bay where all of the cables are.

I used to have a cabinet full of set to top boxes but might need to get some brackets from STB for this.

I think I will reserve all judgement until after a few weeks of living with it.

Defiantly going to be an avant which is smaller as it has less of a surround.

Jury is out and I need to find a tape measure which is somewhere in all of these boxes.

Maybe the avant 75 or 55 or 11-55 who knows.

Duels wrote:

trackbeo wrote:

 

But I would move my system to the living room, which presumably has better proportions than this small-ish den.

 

 

Ha. I can't speak directly for Sean but In the U.k. this is often the size of a living room, not a den!

 

I was thinking exactly the same!  That's a normal sized UK lounge!! ❓