Triad Owner's Thread - Page 172

Originally Posted by kblee 

I am in the process of designing my basement theater and have decided that I will be going w/ Triads. The theater will be long and narrow 29' x10' (8 foot ceiling) with ~ 4' of the length being behind an acoustically transparent screen. My current vision includes:

3 InRoom Silver LCRs
4 InWall Silver/4 Surrounds
2 SVS PC12-NSD Subwoofers

What type of receiver / separates should I be looking for to power the Triads properly? I have been looking at the Emotive UMC-200/UPA-700 combo and also the new Denon AVR-X4000, but it doesn't appear to be rated for 4 ohms. Utilization will be 95% movies / sports and 5% music.

Originally Posted by zoomin 


The way they are labelled, the woofer should be up high and the smaller drivers down below?

Originally Posted by Yzfbossman 

Yes this is the correct way. There needs to be some QC on the website and marketing materials.

Originally Posted by JaremyP 

Wish Emo had an XPA-7, but I need to buy my gear before such a product will likely come into existence.

Originally Posted by kblee 

Their sister company, Sherbourn, has a 350 x 7 watts per channel model for about the same money you're planning to spend.

Originally Posted by Paul Scarpelli 

All other things being equal, you will not hear a difference between 350 watts per channel and 200 watts per channel into Silver LCRs. And 100 watts per channel is puh-lenty for Silver Surrounds. One of the things I discussed with Dan Laufman (Emotiva) a few years ago was maybe a 7-channel amp that had three big channels and four smaller surround channels, like 300 x 3 + 150 x 4. I couldn't really get his attention on that concept, but I respect what he has done with his company.

Originally Posted by Paul Scarpelli 

All other things being equal, you will not hear a difference between 350 watts per channel and 200 watts per channel into Silver LCRs. And 100 watts per channel is puh-lenty for Silver Surrounds. One of the things I discussed with Dan Laufman (Emotiva) a few years ago was maybe a 7-channel amp that had three big channels and four smaller surround channels, like 300 x 3 + 150 x 4. I couldn't really get his attention on that concept, but I respect what he has done with his company.

Originally Posted by mankite 

Originally Posted by JaremyP 

Paul, now that post has me scared that I'm over buying... It was talking again with other reps at Triad that pushed me toward moving up to the XPA series from the UPA-700 for those speakers. Also when talking to the Emo reps, they suggested the same thing to shoot for roughly double the speaker rated power in an amp. I don't want to waste my money, but if I'm going to spend the money, I'd rather just spend it now on the XPA line up and be done rather than buying the UPA-700 and changing it out later.

Ugh, was at the house twice today and forgot to snap current pictures of the living room to post. Will do so tomorrow. At least after a few weeks of a full stop, we have major progress again with carpenters, painters, and countertop installers all doing their thing today!