SOWK -
Can much be done in the way of calibration on a 4 year old Sony VPL 50 ? I kind of remember hearing that they don't calibrate well because of a poorly designed CMS (or none at all). I use some picture settings that may have come from you when it first came out and was a popular model on the AVS forums. Other than basic calibration, I running it without a professional calibration. It is still on the original lamp. I must be lucky because I recall lots of members complaining about the lamps not lasting more than 800 or 100 hours.
Not much new in my system. I'm up to 7 channels with the addition of two rear speakers on the rear wall 5 feet behind listening position and 6 feet off the floor. I think it does improve the perceived sense of wrapping the sound field from sides to the rear wall. Also having as set of speakers behind you improves the panning from front to rear and vice versa. Other things I've also noticed is an increase the height of some effects, and sometimes sound effects appear to float in the middle of the room between my seat and the center channel or the mains. It would seem odd, without front side or front height channel speakers, but that's what I hear. I just have plain vanilla decoding of DTS HD MA or Dolby TrueHD straight out from my BDP 51 bluray player.
Bill
Can much be done in the way of calibration on a 4 year old Sony VPL 50 ? I kind of remember hearing that they don't calibrate well because of a poorly designed CMS (or none at all). I use some picture settings that may have come from you when it first came out and was a popular model on the AVS forums. Other than basic calibration, I running it without a professional calibration. It is still on the original lamp. I must be lucky because I recall lots of members complaining about the lamps not lasting more than 800 or 100 hours.
Not much new in my system. I'm up to 7 channels with the addition of two rear speakers on the rear wall 5 feet behind listening position and 6 feet off the floor. I think it does improve the perceived sense of wrapping the sound field from sides to the rear wall. Also having as set of speakers behind you improves the panning from front to rear and vice versa. Other things I've also noticed is an increase the height of some effects, and sometimes sound effects appear to float in the middle of the room between my seat and the center channel or the mains. It would seem odd, without front side or front height channel speakers, but that's what I hear. I just have plain vanilla decoding of DTS HD MA or Dolby TrueHD straight out from my BDP 51 bluray player.
Bill
:cool:
Did you make the sound panels that I see on the sidewalls ? That is something I'd like to try as an upgrade to my room.
