29 Jan 2007, 10:19 pm
AspicViper wrote:
My brother would crank his so loud and make it sound as if a herd of elephants was comming and going to stomp on the house. I'm surprized he isn't deaf.
That's me too! I can't stand it anymore. Time for a home theater rant. Home theater is one of my current obsessions. I spend way too much time tinkering with my setup. It's probably 3x what I need for my house and I love it!! ! You haven't lived until you see the hi-def version of Lord of the Rings on a great home theater system cranked up to Warp 10. It's unbelieveably awesome! I rarely go to theaters anymore because my system blows away any movie house around here. Plus I have no crowds in my living room and the kitchen and bathroom are 10 feet away.
Here is my TV, subwoofer, and center-channel speaker. TV is a Sony Wega 50" rear-projection LCD. It was my Christmas present to myself. The sub is the speaker on the floor. It's a PSB SubSeries 6- single 12" with a 350 watt built in amplifier. The center speaker is under the TV and it's a PSB Image 9C- two 6.5" woofers and a 1" dome tweeter.
30 Jan 2007, 12:00 am
BubbaHoTep wrote:
The sub is the speaker on the floor. It's a PSB SubSeries 6- single 12" with a 350 watt built in amplifier. The center speaker is under the TV and it's a PSB Image 9C- two 6.5" woofers and a 1" dome tweeter.
I have greatly enjoyed the PSB speakers I have heard. Good choice! I gave my family a cheap home-theater-in-a-box for Christmas and it works quite nicely for them considering it's abysmal cheapness.
For myself, I get the best surround sound from *gasp* my headphones. I have really nice Sennheiser HD-600s and a great headphone amp. With just the stereo down mix the surround imaging is very good. I have literally turned around when watching a movie because I thought that someone was behind me. In my dorm room, at the moment, is a old 19" CRT TV with a pretty decent stereo: NAD 60watt Integrated Amp, and JVC SK-S44 Speakers with 12" woofers, corner loaded, these babies have incredible bass! At some point I'll fix up the pair of 30 year old Sansui SP-2000s I have stored at home and put them in the system instead (even though they are much more expensive than the JVCs, they don't have as warm and pleasing a sound).
Sansui SP-2000
I doubt I would ever go with a Home-theater-in-a-box for my self. If I ever move away from stereo, which is unlikely, I would probably go with a NAD receiver and PSB speakers.
NAD T743 5.1 Receiver (50 watts per channel, if it is anything like the 60 watts per channel of my NAD-C350, it would blow away receivers claiming much more wattage)
Mains:
PSB Image B25
Center:
PSB Image C60
Surrounds: PSB Image B15
Subs:
Custom: I would build my own subs, copying a hand built pair of subs owned by my college's theater department. I would make two and use them as stands for the front speakers. They each have a 12" woofer and a 12" passive radiator in a large (3' tall x 15" wide by 12" deep) sealed cabinet with a 70 watt amp/crossover. They are flat and very tuneful down into the 20Hz range. They are completely transparent; none of that nasty one note bass you get with most subs. I could probably build a copy for a few hundred dollars and it would outperform subs many times more expensive.
However, this whole deal would probably set me back at least $2500 and I have college loans to worry about and no decent TV. If I were to spend money on a TV it would have to be an HD DLP front projector. With screen, that's at least another $2500. Sigh....
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30 Jan 2007, 12:05 am
30 Jan 2007, 2:52 am
30 Jan 2007, 8:57 am
NeoPlatonist wrote:
BubbaHoTep wrote:
The sub is the speaker on the floor. It's a PSB SubSeries 6- single 12" with a 350 watt built in amplifier. The center speaker is under the TV and it's a PSB Image 9C- two 6.5" woofers and a 1" dome tweeter.
I have greatly enjoyed the PSB speakers I have heard. Good choice! I gave my family a cheap home-theater-in-a-box for Christmas and it works quite nicely for them considering it's abysmal cheapness.
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I doubt I would ever go with a Home-theater-in-a-box for my self. If I ever move away from stereo, which is unlikely, I would probably go with a NAD receiver and PSB speakers.
Subs:
Custom: I would build my own subs, copying a hand built pair of subs owned by my college's theater department. I would make two and use them as stands for the front speakers. They each have a 12" woofer and a 12" passive radiator in a large (3' tall x 15" wide by 12" deep) sealed cabinet with a 70 watt amp/crossover. They are flat and very tuneful down into the 20Hz range. They are completely transparent; none of that nasty one note bass you get with most subs. I could probably build a copy for a few hundred dollars and it would outperform subs many times more expensive.
However, this whole deal would probably set me back at least $2500 and I have college loans to worry about and no decent TV. If I were to spend money on a TV it would have to be an HD DLP front projector. With screen, that's at least another $2500. Sigh....
Cool! I'm a huge NAD/PSB fan myself. Save your pennies and put it together one piece at a time. That's what I did. Here's the rest of my system:
The left main speaker, "rack" and sub. Mains are PSB Image 5Ts. They're basically the same as my center speaker, two 6.5" woof and one 1" dome tweet, only oriented vertically. The big grey (and heavy) amp is a NAD T761. The black thing above it is an older JVC DVD player that's going to be replaced soon. And the silver thing above that is my DVR. I also have an old Marantz turntable on the shelf above just out of the picture. Underneath the teddy bears on the bottom shelf is a Sony Playstation 1, which doesn't get played much anymore.
My surround speakers. They're Advent Babies that were part of a bookshelf system I bought new in 1989 and they still sound great. I found the wall-mount brackets for them on eBay and ran the speaker wires through the ceiling myself.
