Originally Posted by
N Boros
Seymour AV has one of the better screens with the least amount of color shift and only attenuate the sound by around 1 to 2 dB at some frequencies. Their centerstage UF if if you have a 8 to 10 foot viewing distance. The centerstage XD is for 10 to 11 feet or more of a viewing distance. It looks like a fixed screen would run you around $1500, in the size you were looking at.
Elite screens has a retractable acoustically transparent screen for a little bit less money, but it is a little less accurate. Amazon has a silver ticket acoustically transparent screen for even less money, though I don’t think these have been measured by a third party for accuracy.
It doesn’t sound like your fronts would be so close to the wall, or the floor that it would be considered bad placement. But, I like the idea of having flexibility of placement, without really loosing all that much. With a good acoustically transparent screen, like from Seymour, the only think that you really lose is a little bit as far as screen gain. The UF is about 0.8 gain and the XD is about 0.94 gain. So you lose a little bit of light output. Other than that, if the price is okay, you don’t really lose much else. But, like I said having the flexibility to get the tweeter at earlevel and to position them to the left and right whereever you need can be a big gain.