I am hoping to have the basement wrapped up within the next month or so. Iam going to have a slightly larger area than I do now and would like to upgrademy system. I need to keep it under $1400 or risk execution by the wife.
My current setup is Alpha B1 L/R, Alpha C1, Alpha A/V surround. I was looking at moving the Alpha B1 to thesurround and getting X1T for the L/R. With the remainder of the money I havetwo options.
Option 1: purchase a modest sub. It sure would be nice to have a little bitmore rumble when stuff blows up. I live in a semi-detached, we insulated thebasement as best we could, sealed the back of the electric boxes, and coveredthem with pads. I am putting up 5/8” drywall. That said I do not expect it tobe sound proof, my neighbors are great people and I want to keep it that way sowhen I say modest sub I mean just that.
Option 2: purchase an XC center channel to match the X1T. Currently I wouldlike to hear more vocals out of the center channel depending on the audiosource and the mix sometime it seems vocals get lost. I spent time tweaking thelevels and got it sound ok and the new setup will also improve it as it will bequieter and you won’t be getting your ear pounded by surrounds sitting 2” away.My concern here is there doesn’t seem to be much of a difference between the XCand the C1 other than tweeter size.
The total room size is 28’x15’. The “entertainment” area is 14’x15’ with theright hand side almost wide open (yea I know it is not ideal but I didn’t winthe lottery so it is what I had to work with).
Thanks for your help.
My current setup is Alpha B1 L/R, Alpha C1, Alpha A/V surround. I was looking at moving the Alpha B1 to thesurround and getting X1T for the L/R. With the remainder of the money I havetwo options.
Option 1: purchase a modest sub. It sure would be nice to have a little bitmore rumble when stuff blows up. I live in a semi-detached, we insulated thebasement as best we could, sealed the back of the electric boxes, and coveredthem with pads. I am putting up 5/8” drywall. That said I do not expect it tobe sound proof, my neighbors are great people and I want to keep it that way sowhen I say modest sub I mean just that.
Option 2: purchase an XC center channel to match the X1T. Currently I wouldlike to hear more vocals out of the center channel depending on the audiosource and the mix sometime it seems vocals get lost. I spent time tweaking thelevels and got it sound ok and the new setup will also improve it as it will bequieter and you won’t be getting your ear pounded by surrounds sitting 2” away.My concern here is there doesn’t seem to be much of a difference between the XCand the C1 other than tweeter size.
The total room size is 28’x15’. The “entertainment” area is 14’x15’ with theright hand side almost wide open (yea I know it is not ideal but I didn’t winthe lottery so it is what I had to work with).
Thanks for your help.
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