Considering the minimal height of your platform, I definitely wouldn't put the speaker there (especially since the stand is shorter than the speaker). You could try curegeorg's idea of putting the speaker low by building a stand in front of the TV's base so the top edge of the speaker sat near the bottom of the screen. The stand could be integrated into the base since you're doing a base anyway.

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