jrichey98
06-14-08, 12:22 AM
I just bought a small house and my roommates kept the old entertainment system system so I needed to buy a new one. I'm in no way an audiophile so I jumped onto cnet and consumer reports to find out what they had to say and started off looking at a Samsung LN52A650 with a Sony HT-7200H. Problem is I couldn't find many reviews since it's new but I wanted the Blueray/HD Support so I jumped on here trying to find a review.
Anyway I stumbled on ***HTIB Alternatives Thread*** in the Home Theater In A Box forum while looking for reviews and wondered if I could put something together better than the HTiB. Long story short I asked a buddy of mine and he said Yamaha and JBL were good for the money. I found the Yamaha RX-V663 which I really liked. Afterward I stumbled across the JBL Venue Series and couldn't find much bad about them. Compared to the newer JBL speakers cost these seemed pretty for the price.
My friend said good stuff I should go with it. After doing a more research on the forums it seemed many people were liked them and most the gripes were with the silver covers, which I can live with, buy new black ones, or dye apparently. Long story short after some more of this dangerous 'reading' on the interweb I ended up going with: 2xStadiums, 1xLC2, 2xArena, 1xBIC H100 for a 5.1 system.
After I ordered a DVD/VCR Combo and DVD Recorder from Toshiba, 250' 12AWG Speaker Wire, and the needed HDMI, DVI/HDMA, Toslink, Component, and RCA Cables from Monoprice, and two APC LE1200 1200VA Voltage Regulators (one dedicated for sound system), I ended up spending over $2K on the, system up from the $500 original. Breakdown is as follows: $750 on the Receiver, DVD Player, and Recorder, $1000 on the speakers, and about $300 on Cables and Line Conditioners, rest is shipping.
Here is a picture of the possible configurations for my small room, it's 16x12 and has 3 doorways and an 8' window:
http://www.jrichey98.com/jems_archive/soundconfig.gif
(All door's/windows/furniture with the exception of speakers are to scale)
In any case I do have a couple questions for you guys: I went with the Arena's, Stadiums, and LC2 because they all seemed perfectly matched, approximately 50Hz-20kHz w/crossover at 4K. I was wanting to maybe switch to the 7.1 configuration by getting two balcony's but there crossover is at 2kHz instead of 4kHz and since I'm still in the 'quickly learning' phase I'm not sure if it'd sound weird while playing music because there's such a difference. Also due to the size of the room there is not really any room to put the speakers back from the couch, they would need to mount on the wall above directly behind, and though i really want the rear speakers, I'm worried they may drown out the others.
Many Thanks,
--Jeremy Richey
P.S. I will edit links to the manufacturers product page once I have three posts
Anyway I stumbled on ***HTIB Alternatives Thread*** in the Home Theater In A Box forum while looking for reviews and wondered if I could put something together better than the HTiB. Long story short I asked a buddy of mine and he said Yamaha and JBL were good for the money. I found the Yamaha RX-V663 which I really liked. Afterward I stumbled across the JBL Venue Series and couldn't find much bad about them. Compared to the newer JBL speakers cost these seemed pretty for the price.
My friend said good stuff I should go with it. After doing a more research on the forums it seemed many people were liked them and most the gripes were with the silver covers, which I can live with, buy new black ones, or dye apparently. Long story short after some more of this dangerous 'reading' on the interweb I ended up going with: 2xStadiums, 1xLC2, 2xArena, 1xBIC H100 for a 5.1 system.
After I ordered a DVD/VCR Combo and DVD Recorder from Toshiba, 250' 12AWG Speaker Wire, and the needed HDMI, DVI/HDMA, Toslink, Component, and RCA Cables from Monoprice, and two APC LE1200 1200VA Voltage Regulators (one dedicated for sound system), I ended up spending over $2K on the, system up from the $500 original. Breakdown is as follows: $750 on the Receiver, DVD Player, and Recorder, $1000 on the speakers, and about $300 on Cables and Line Conditioners, rest is shipping.
Here is a picture of the possible configurations for my small room, it's 16x12 and has 3 doorways and an 8' window:
http://www.jrichey98.com/jems_archive/soundconfig.gif
(All door's/windows/furniture with the exception of speakers are to scale)
In any case I do have a couple questions for you guys: I went with the Arena's, Stadiums, and LC2 because they all seemed perfectly matched, approximately 50Hz-20kHz w/crossover at 4K. I was wanting to maybe switch to the 7.1 configuration by getting two balcony's but there crossover is at 2kHz instead of 4kHz and since I'm still in the 'quickly learning' phase I'm not sure if it'd sound weird while playing music because there's such a difference. Also due to the size of the room there is not really any room to put the speakers back from the couch, they would need to mount on the wall above directly behind, and though i really want the rear speakers, I'm worried they may drown out the others.
Many Thanks,
--Jeremy Richey
P.S. I will edit links to the manufacturers product page once I have three posts