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Safe distance for a Sub woofer from a CRT TV ?

  • 27-12-2008 08:27PM
    #1
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭


    I've a Black Diamond 32" telly and a surround sound system with a sub.
    what's the safest distance I can have it ? Is leaving it on the ground beside the stand that the telly is on safe ? I'm guessing having it behind the telly ain't safe. there's not much cable on it, there's maybe 4ft and the way the room and telly is (it's in a corner) I can't really have the cable stretching along the either wall


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  • #2
    MediaTank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭MediaTank


    That's an old wives tale :) All devices are shielded so it doesn't really matter.


  • #3
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    It says on the speaker that it's not magnetically shielded so you should not place it near a television.

    I don't think it's an old wives tale as I used to have a dvd wired into a big speaker beside a telly and gradually blotches started to show up on the screen. At first it wasn't that noticeable, it was just a red spot on the top right hand corner. As time went on the blotch got bigger and became more discoloured. If I turned the telly off for 10mins say it would go away, sometimes it'd come straight back other times it wouldn't come back for a week.


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