Many A/V receivers are equipped with built-in version. I even tune the speakers with EQ (your receiver) to the room for a flat response with a dedicated microphone and spectrum analyzer. I've installed many "budget" systems with a very rewarding audio experience and also many high-end rigs (like mine) which are capable reproducing very accurate imaging across the entire sound spectrum, at realistic levels and at frequencies above and below human hearing(you feel it!). Also, be careful of time-smearing issues from reflective surfaces, especially the back wall, walls near speakers and floors. The optimal listening position will be at at screen center. And the tweeters aligned with screen center in height as well - all this will pay off big-time. If the voice coils of the center and mains are placed aligned with the face of the TV/ monitor, the timing of the sound will originate at the image. The center should be no exception, if possible. Simply aligning mains and center speakers with the TV "screen center" as referenced above, PLUS time-aligning front-to back can produce an amazing sound-stage from inexpensive speakers. These tricks are used with high-end rigs, but the physics are the same, no matter the size or quality of speakers. You've got a nice receiver with capabilities ready to go. If you're on a budget like a lot of us, you can get great surround with relatively inexpensive speakers, sor less than 50 bucks each (shop and review).
No time to run through the manual tonight, but hope should not be lost.
You won't have the wide-field only good properly spaced and raised mains can deliver (tweeter at listening position ear level for killer imaging).
Whatever the reason, to have basic surround, this should be possible in this situation.įor now, it seems a waste of the potential of full surround, but with 2 TV speakers, you at least have the image near the center of the screen on one axis, which sort of gives you a "center of screen" acoustic image at a minimum. I have done this, but for a different reason. HDMI will be used for video and analog audio can be input to the TV. The objective is to use the receiver's out (with whatever source) and output the analog L+R to a TV input. Using the TV speakers for L/C/R is not the objective.