Couldn't you just wire it into your receiver in reverse? Or are the front and back speakers different?
It’s 90 degrees off so if I tried it the front left channel would be forward and over my head and the front right would be center right. The rear would be the same but slightly behind me. The guy who owned the house before me was crazy. I had to bring in an electrician to figure out what he did. He put speaker drops in every room in the house and even some outside. He also ran coaxial cable throughout the house and most of it terminated in one big rats nest in the basement. He even ran it to the attic. There are also volume knobs built into the wall and I have no idea what they do. We figure he had some really expensive sound system put in (back before wireless) that allowed him to play and control music from anywhere in the house. I also think he may have had a camera system in the basement where my neighbor thinks he may have been growing cash crops. Anyway when the guy left he cut all the cables and left a mess. At one point we found about 50 foot of copper cable shoved into a small hole in the wall.
Apple Man's suggestion of the ZVOX soundbar was actually so good we bought another one for my father in law. We love ours: super easy to use and sounds great. We went with the 570 for him, which is similar to the 555, but with bluetooth. He had a cheap receiver and speakers that frankly didn't sound that great, but could never figure out how to use the receiver without help, so it was usually turned off, and his TV has really crappy speakers. After he renovated his living room, he didn't even bother to set the receiver and speakers back up, because he always had so much trouble using it. I think the ZVOX is going to work great for him, since it just responds to the TV remote. You don't have to change inputs or sound formats or do anything other than press the volume button. Anyone looking at a new sound setup should take a hard look at the ZVOX soundbars. I think they sound as good as anything in the sub $1000 range, and they're way less clutter and way easier to use.
I upgraded my home theater setup with the Panasonic DP-UB820-K, pretty much the best 4K Blu-ray player on the market at a remotely reasonable price (to get a better player you're looking at $1000 for UB9000 and up). I'd been watching it for quite awhile, and it finally went on a decent sale at $399, $100 below the normal retail price. It really looks and sounds fantastic, and it supports just about every format, including Dolby Vision, HDR10+, Dolby Atmos, and DTS:X.
I did an upgrade too a few months ago. moved my 55" LG c9 OLED and edifier 2.1 speaker set into another room. got a 65" LG c1 OLED with a gen 2 Sonos beam and gen 3 Sonos subwoofer
I've had a second order for an LG OLED cancelled, first a Black Friday deal for a 65" C4 and today a 65" G3 from Greentoe. This has been quite an ordeal. Well, I've found a hell of a steal on a 65" G4 OLED and LG's flagship S95TR soundbar through their partner's price I got from verifying I'm a licensed psychologist. Why someone in my tax bracket (keep myself just under 32% to avoid the big tax jump) deserves over $2000 off is a mystery to me, but I got both for just under $3000 total with a wall mounting service included with the purchase. The original MSRP for just the TV alone was around $3400 a year ago. The full price for the soundbar system is $1500. This was more than I intended to spend originally, but I'm getting LG's flagship TV and flagship soundbar system for a few thousand dollars. Now I just have to figure out how I am going to lug this up to the 3rd floor. I have reserved a small moving truck for tomorrow morning and hope I don't end up hospitalized after this. I can't wait for delivery at this point; I'm on a plane to visit my girlfriend in Canada on the 24th.
I actually brought my 65" c1 upstairs by myself. It's doable but I don't recommend it because you get super paranoid about breaking it. It is so thin and it's super wide for your wing span so you have no comfortable or safe way to grab hold it while going up the stairs. If you have no other way. Just keep it in the box.. I know that just makes this task even more unwieldly, but grab a side handle and drag it up the stairs. Since my last post in 2021. I moved the Sonos beam back with the 55" c9 and got a sonos arc and 2x sonos one speakers for the surround in july 2022. I also got a 42" c3 for a computer monitor last year.
It looks like the TV is about 61 lbs. but with the included mount it's like 80 lbs., which wouldn't be so much to lift but it's so damn wide, awkward, and delicate. I'm not a particularly large person at 5'7", but I relocated to a new town and don't have anyone to help carrying it up the stairs. My plan is to mostly slide it along the carpet most of the time then lift from the side for the stairs and rest at the bends of the stairs as needed. I just have to do that 4 times to get it up to the 3rd floor without dropping it or breaking any of my bones and I can get it inside my place. Last time I did something as stupid as this was carrying up a Samsung G9 curved ultrawide monitor up a single but quite long flight of stairs, which wasn't very heavy but in the box was like the size of a small refrigerator. Extremely awkward to carry up stairs alone. This is what one of those boxes looks like next to a person: