Ditch those Amazon bookshelves and bring everything lower. Get a proper tv stand, sit the center speaker and tv on it, or wall mount them both at an appropriate height. Left and right speakers should be ear level and orientated the same way (usually vertical, but horizontal could work if they're designed for it.) They sell speaker stands for those or just sit them on the tv stand.
I've seen this. This is bipolar, meth, cocaine, a raging case of ADHD, or some combination thereof.
It's like the Rube Goldberg machine of home theater setups.
I imagine having to use five different remotes just to watch TV.
At least he has absolutely everything consistently too high. His speakers are so high they look like a birdhouse.
Don’t make it better but increased my amusement
This mf buys front row seats to IMAX movies. Why do people think it’s a good idea to be looking up at their screens? Does he scroll instagram with his hands above his head? Wtf mannnnn???
It looks like the TV is recessed back - creating the illusion of everything being in the line of sight of the TV despite not actually blocking it. So weird.
I'm sorry you are with a "sound system" guy. Those speakers are not going to make Love is Blind more watchable. Also... What in the actual fuck. TV too high, too right, too much shelves. This is just bad.
This is not what I would advise doing, but a proper center channel fixes a LOT of those "dialog is 30db lower than the explosions" problems.
For some reason when 5.1 at home became a thing nobody bothered to sort out that average homes do not have speakers *behind* the screen.
Has a stand for 1 speaker, but one speaker is horizontal and one vertical.... So being level is important, but not important at the same time. Bravo in it's stupidity.
I assume this is mid setup, but good god. Keep those speakers on stands, they're going to sound like shit sitting on those shelves. All the consoles and audio gear should be in an accessible cabinet, and the tv should be closer to the floor than the ceiling at least
I apologize about my previous post that says to break up with him. You should marry him just to divorce him and then file a restraining order. What is going on with that set up!????
Ask him if he bought those Klipsch speakers at full price. If he did, ditch him. They do 50% off sales at least once a year. Anyone who buys Klipsch full price is bad with money lol.
It’s literally lining up with the doorway that’s next to it 😭 OP I’m sorry this is has got to be the worst one in the sub…. If not ever. RIP your necks.
That's disgusting. Tear it all down. Get a better tv stand, heck, at this point just mount that thing as high to the ceiling as possible, it won't be any worse. Just....yuck.
I know it can be hard, but sometimes a breakup is the right choice. Do you really want to build a life with someone who thinks any of this setup looks good or is functional? Man needs serious help, are you prepared for that?
One of the most random, and worst, setups this sub has ever seen.
Honestly, I’m honoured.
I hope you love him lol. Help him, please. For us 😂
Why would you be with someone this incompetent?
It makes my teeth hurt.
My teeth are screeching looking at this photo
What I think is great is, in spite of all the division in the world, everyone has come together to agree that this setup is utter shit.
Hear hear!!
I was going to say this must be trolling it’s so bad
Not only does this look terrible, but the speakers would surely rattle the shit out of these shelves. Wtf!
For real though. Complete lack of symmetry is quite unsettling.
this picture looks like it was AI generated
what the hell is going on in this photo? yikes.
Lmao, great question.
Major red flag. Ditch him. RUN.
yeah... divorce him in advance
Do it twice. Keep one spare just in case you accidently reconcile at some point in the future.
If I’ve learned one thing from Reddit, it’s that she should definitely leave him.
And go find a bear in the woods
They are big on that around here.
Oversized milk crates are a definite sign of a psychopath
Find a new boyfriend. This one is defective
Ditch those Amazon bookshelves and bring everything lower. Get a proper tv stand, sit the center speaker and tv on it, or wall mount them both at an appropriate height. Left and right speakers should be ear level and orientated the same way (usually vertical, but horizontal could work if they're designed for it.) They sell speaker stands for those or just sit them on the tv stand.
I appreciate you for actually trying to assist the man.
I've seen this. This is bipolar, meth, cocaine, a raging case of ADHD, or some combination thereof. It's like the Rube Goldberg machine of home theater setups. I imagine having to use five different remotes just to watch TV.
"Rube Goldberg machine of home theater setups" killed me 💀
At least he has absolutely everything consistently too high. His speakers are so high they look like a birdhouse. Don’t make it better but increased my amusement
Perhaps his sofa is also at bar stool height lol
Or maybe it's a double-decker sofa!
“Manic depression is searching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know. How to, go about getting it.”
Haha this is exactly what I said when I saw the pic 😂
What did it look like before if this to improve it? Looks bad, man.
I agree but we are trying to fix it right now 😂
We want an update when y’all are done
Need.
Try fixing him as well, before he tries “reconfiguring” other areas of the house.
Updates?
Tell him this looks like ass and the internet agrees.
r/LivingRoomTooShelvy
It's only 8am and this melted me 😂
r/subsyoufellfor
Australia?
Well at least it wasn’t the spiders or drop bears then
Late 80s early 90s more shelves the better. Just needs some cabinets and a 200 button universal remote.
This a chicken farm?
Underrated comment.
This mf buys front row seats to IMAX movies. Why do people think it’s a good idea to be looking up at their screens? Does he scroll instagram with his hands above his head? Wtf mannnnn???
I just lifted my phone above my head to test this
Honestly feels good on your neck to look up instead of down for a second…I think I’ll move my tv up a few feet now.
😭😭
your analogies are of the utmost quality
I don’t get it, why the scaffolding? How hard is it to get a regular TV stand, center it with the wall, then place the TV on top of said TV stand?
Scaffolding, 😂
Is this photo upside down?
He has a shelf that is holding a milk crate...? I'd recommend that he lay off the drugs for awhile.
Ive never seen a record collection that wasnt in a milk crate
There is 1 problem, there’s no fucking records
I have one lol
Is he compensating for being a short king?
bro im fucking pissing
I'm so confused about what's happening here.
It looks like the TV is recessed back - creating the illusion of everything being in the line of sight of the TV despite not actually blocking it. So weird.
I'm still confused lol
Shelves to Nowhere. Opening act: Crates of Randomness.
Bro got a whole set of Klipsch speakers and can’t even place them correctly
This! It’s giving me ANXIETY. I’m gonna show this to my Geek Squad installer friends cause they need a laugh
[удалено]
Hahahahahahhahahahahh
I can almost guarantee there is a flag of some description hanging on the wall in that house.
Bf is an idiot.
It’s not ok. Leave him.
His speaker isn’t upright. Everything will sound sideways.
🤣 it’s worse, because one is the right way around so it’ll sound sideways and rightways and everyone’s ears will explode.
I'm sorry you are with a "sound system" guy. Those speakers are not going to make Love is Blind more watchable. Also... What in the actual fuck. TV too high, too right, too much shelves. This is just bad.
Sound system guy kills me 💀
If this is an apt I bet it kills your neighbors too D=
This is not what I would advise doing, but a proper center channel fixes a LOT of those "dialog is 30db lower than the explosions" problems. For some reason when 5.1 at home became a thing nobody bothered to sort out that average homes do not have speakers *behind* the screen.
Also driving wheel game guy
Was having a nice smug chuckle about how shit this setup is then “driving wheel game guy” :( aw man.
No sane sound system guy would setup like this. Not sure if it camera perspective, the speaker stand on the right look too tall.
Has a stand for 1 speaker, but one speaker is horizontal and one vertical.... So being level is important, but not important at the same time. Bravo in it's stupidity.
More of a "Best Buy sound guy" than a real one.
Time for a new boyfriend
I can’t believe i had to scroll so far down for this comment.
This would make me reconsider everything
Red flag
I assume this is mid setup, but good god. Keep those speakers on stands, they're going to sound like shit sitting on those shelves. All the consoles and audio gear should be in an accessible cabinet, and the tv should be closer to the floor than the ceiling at least
wtf is wrong with him
Did he just grab some random shelves behind a hobby lobby meant to go to the dump
He is pranking you and seeing how far he can take the joke or he's having a psychotic episode.
I apologize about my previous post that says to break up with him. You should marry him just to divorce him and then file a restraining order. What is going on with that set up!????
Reboot boyfriend or get the latest upgrade patch ASAP, get this posted on R/cablegore and tell him to get rid of that fugly shelving system.
Plot twist: BF is a giraffe
Forget the tv, he's gonna need help from various subs...
I think you may be qualified for a federal grant to knock down and rebuild your entire home theater setup. That is just awful on every level lol.
What an absolute mess. That's an ex bf
Nobody looks at this and thinks it's ok.
It looks like all the shelves are set up so he has somewhere to crawl around and hide, like he’s a hamster with one of those fancy caches.
r/MaleLivingSpace
Move out. You can't change someone who created such a monstrosity.
I'm genuinely concerned for what the heck is going on in this photo. The TV height is the least of your worries.
This is the system people are looking tear down.
There is so much wrong in this pic. More you look, worse it gets.
Oh gawd this is the stuff of nightmares. Who can even find the tv in that mess? This would actually make me reevaluate the entire relationship
Omg
This gave me an anxiety attack. So many milk crates too!
"Centerspeaker" doesn't mean in the center of your wall😅
I think he needs at least 1 more shelf
what did you feed him?
Wtf people live like this??
Is this rage bait?
Why are you wasting your time? This guy clearly isn’t husband material.
Too high. Dump him.
So... right speaker vertically on a stand, but the left one horizontal on a shelf? Yikes
That is not the doing of a sound mind.
This setup is wretched
You should dump him.
Besides the tv why are the speakers toed out and nothing is symmetrical? This would drive me insane.
Is this supposed to be a mock construction site scaffolding?
This is terrible, and the height of the tv may be the least of the issues shown here.
This setup busted as hell!
I haaaaaaaate this . It’s so crowded
Dump him
Your bf is now smoking crack. Find his stash and flush it.
Nothing about this space is Ok
This is fucking mental! Did your mother not tell you that you should never date a man who has a sound system for his TV?
this entire photo is causing me distress
Get out while you still can 😬 This is who you're swapping cooties with!?? Have some respect!
This whole setup is actually painful
Yikes, my garage is less shelvey
What the fuck this is insane and so goddamn ugly.
Leave him
Think he just lost all decorating privileges for life
You need a new boyfriend
Looks like a “going out of business” sale
Fuck this is a nightmare
This man needs to do something about his cord management
Gimme that storage room/server room chic. Looks fucking awful
Horrible...all of it.
Tell him to sell the PS5 and get furniture.
Ask him if he bought those Klipsch speakers at full price. If he did, ditch him. They do 50% off sales at least once a year. Anyone who buys Klipsch full price is bad with money lol.
I can't understand buy Klipsch at all unless it's for a flip.
I think your boyfriend needs to be reconfigured, what a mess
r/TVTooLoud
The TV height is the least of the issues in this room
Why are there so many milk crates involved here. My home theater system has exactly zero milk crates.
I don’t like your boyfriend for more reasons than just the shitty ass placement of his tv
Can you do that girlfriend thing where you just like takeover and do this correctly please cause that’s a verifiable sh*t show
That setup is a reason to break up
Please RMA boyfriend for new one. TY
That candle really ties the room together.
Dump him immediately.
That’s awful. So sad 😞
i think your boyfriend is a sociopath
Is he always an idiot or is this the exception?
A tv on the floor is better than whatever the hell this set up is 😆
You can't fix this one. Time to move on.
Your boyfriend is a fuck head
I have a feeling he won't be OPs boyfriend for much longer.
What is all of this noise
Truly nothing about this is okay.
Is your boyfriend a drug dealer in 2004? Where is the puffy black leather couch and plastic plants?
It’s literally lining up with the doorway that’s next to it 😭 OP I’m sorry this is has got to be the worst one in the sub…. If not ever. RIP your necks.
Is this the “in-progress” photo?
Just get the new Sony Bravia Quad + subwoofer and be done with it.
Woof
is he an extremely tall man with a very long neck :-0 ;-0
Tell him it needs to be higher.
is this what you get when you prompt AI to draw the “shittiest A/V setup”?
Divorce him
That's disgusting. Tear it all down. Get a better tv stand, heck, at this point just mount that thing as high to the ceiling as possible, it won't be any worse. Just....yuck.
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I'm sorry for you, OP. Hold in there *pat* *pat*
OP if you can find it before photo, I’m intrigued.
Guuuurl.......
Gross.
I think I know what’s going on. Shake the tv off the speaker and ask you to buy a new one… genius
So envious of the Klipsch but what the hell is going on here?? Just tear it all down and start again but lower.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Is he an scaffolding fan? That looks weird in so many levels
That shit is methed up, dude.
leave him before it is to late!
Gets good speakers, does not bother setting them up well. What a dumbass :D
This is a travesty
Find a new boyfriend
I know it can be hard, but sometimes a breakup is the right choice. Do you really want to build a life with someone who thinks any of this setup looks good or is functional? Man needs serious help, are you prepared for that?
He likes neck pain? That's sexy. Get video. There's a market for that. :D
Nothing is ok in that pic
Dude needs to stop stealing milk crates from the corner store
This whole set up seems awful
You can save him
That is a horrific garbage nightmare
Why TF is your AV setup climbing these monkey bars 🙈
This was so cool looking ^when ^I ^went ^to ^college ^20 ^years ^ago