Thompson's living room setup

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Updated pics of subs post #20****
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TV-
Sanyo 70"

Components-
Yamaha rx-v667 AVR
Sony bdp-cx960 400 Bluray Disk Mega Changer
Panamax m5300 Power Conditioner
Emotiva xpa-3 Amp

Lumagen RadianceXD

Darbee vision Darblet
Directv hr22-100
Xbox 360 slim
Yamaha wireless iPod dock

Speakers-
Emptek E55Ti towers
Emptek E5Ci center
klipsch s1 surrounds X4
Outlaw LFM-1 Plus Subwoofer X2

Remote-
Harmony 900
Niles IR Repeater




I wanted all wires and components hidden. The components are in a rack in the other room combined with components for the rest of the house. I did all the work including building the rack. Some of the rack parts are Middle Atlantic though. Working on the home theater now but the components and speakers that I want are very pricey so it is going to take a little bit before that is ready. Also the construction work will take a little while too because I will be doing it myself. I have read enough info on this great site to build a theater well and cant wait until it is done.









Pre amp pic

Edited by Pain Infliction - 8/6/12 at 5:16pm

Thanks everybody for the nice comments! I control everything with an IR repeater over a cat5 cable. Niles is the one that I am using, but there are many on the market.

Wow! Thanks for all the great comment. Very nice to wake up to them. The rack is a middle atlantic frame and faceplates. The rest I did. I had to modify the faceplates and shelves to get them to work. I also ventilated the shelves. I put a temp controled fan in the top of the rack and sealed the rack completely. the intake air is underneath the rack.

I just ordered the Emp Teck e55's so I will post pics and give a review when they arrive.

Haha. It does. Makes me want to go out and get a bigget TV. Not going to though because I am working on the theater now. i just want to replace the sub in the living room and the center speaker since I just bought some replacement fronts.

tmaschm: Do it. I think its fun to play around with all this stuff. Your wife might appreciate it too. Just give yourself a few hours to do it.

BrolicBeast: Thanks!

Thanks! The VF-35 are not that bad. You dont need a lot of power to make them sound good. They are directional though and probably becasue of the horn tweeters. I cant really give you an answer on the bass because the bass is crossovered at 80hz and the sub picks up the rest. I just ordered a new set of front and center speakers so I will compair them with no sub in a few days. Possible that I might want to sell them. Not sure yet.

You can put the rack anywhere in the house. All you need is a few cat5 or cat6 cables for hdmi, remote, etc. The sky is the limit or actually money is.

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Speakers without grills



New layout on rack

Dual Outlaw LFM1-Pluses





Finally got around to posting pics

I never heard it was bad to sack subs. Matter of fact I have seen a lot of people on this forum do the same thing. The reason I stacked the is because that was the sweet spot in the room and also there is another driver and ports closer to ear level. That is also the same reason why I lifted each sub up off the ground and off the top of the other.