Well, my year long process of building a dedicate home theater is finally finished. The Marantz VP-12S1, which was two months late, was the last piece of the puzzle. The 100" diag. Firehawk, which had arrived a month earlier, is finally being put to good use.
The combination replaces a Toshiba 56H80, which now moves to the family room. The improvement to the feeling of being in a theater is dramatic. The larger picture is only part of it. Not dealing with the never quite perfect convergence with the Toshiba is great. The only negatives are that the RPTV does well in a moderately lit room where as the FPTV requires total darkness. The other negative is that the Marantz, which due to it's short throw is right over my head, is audible, though not disturbly so.
I used the Mount 12 to install the Marantz which caused the projector to be quite close to the ceiling. In order to prevent the picture from being too high, I had to angle the projector down slightly which resulted in having to apply a small amount (2 clicks) of electronic shifting (I forget the term) to square off the image. I was concerned about the degradation in picture quality this might cause, but I could detect any when flipping back and forth. Fixing this would probably require the use of a shelf instead of the mount. I'm in no hurry, however, as a really couldn't detect any picture degradation. Maybe it's because I'm much more picky and take more pride in my audio setup, which is pretty awesome.
The speakers are all Vandersteen models. Model 5 for the fronts, a VCC-5 center, 2 pair of VSM-1s for the sides and rears. The VSM-1 are augmented by 2 2Qws subs and the a V2W sub is dedicated to the LFE. This allows me to run all the channels full range.
The electronics are an Integra Research RDC-7 processor and RDA-7 amp, a Toshiba SD-9200 DVD player, which I use in interlaced mode. And finally, I have a Dish 6000 HD receiver for viewing HDTV programming that has not been connected yet. Although, I am curious to see how HDTV will look on with this setup.
I do have one major concern. I've had the projector give me a lamp failure warning during turn on, on two separate occassions. It required me to unplug the projector to reset it, after which it worked fine. I'm hoping this is just a breaking in glitch, but somehow I doubt it. If it starts to happen more frequently, I'll contact Marantz.
Sorry for rambling, but my friends aren't into this stuff. So I hope it's OK to vent my enthusiasm with you all.
The combination replaces a Toshiba 56H80, which now moves to the family room. The improvement to the feeling of being in a theater is dramatic. The larger picture is only part of it. Not dealing with the never quite perfect convergence with the Toshiba is great. The only negatives are that the RPTV does well in a moderately lit room where as the FPTV requires total darkness. The other negative is that the Marantz, which due to it's short throw is right over my head, is audible, though not disturbly so.
I used the Mount 12 to install the Marantz which caused the projector to be quite close to the ceiling. In order to prevent the picture from being too high, I had to angle the projector down slightly which resulted in having to apply a small amount (2 clicks) of electronic shifting (I forget the term) to square off the image. I was concerned about the degradation in picture quality this might cause, but I could detect any when flipping back and forth. Fixing this would probably require the use of a shelf instead of the mount. I'm in no hurry, however, as a really couldn't detect any picture degradation. Maybe it's because I'm much more picky and take more pride in my audio setup, which is pretty awesome.
The speakers are all Vandersteen models. Model 5 for the fronts, a VCC-5 center, 2 pair of VSM-1s for the sides and rears. The VSM-1 are augmented by 2 2Qws subs and the a V2W sub is dedicated to the LFE. This allows me to run all the channels full range.
The electronics are an Integra Research RDC-7 processor and RDA-7 amp, a Toshiba SD-9200 DVD player, which I use in interlaced mode. And finally, I have a Dish 6000 HD receiver for viewing HDTV programming that has not been connected yet. Although, I am curious to see how HDTV will look on with this setup.
I do have one major concern. I've had the projector give me a lamp failure warning during turn on, on two separate occassions. It required me to unplug the projector to reset it, after which it worked fine. I'm hoping this is just a breaking in glitch, but somehow I doubt it. If it starts to happen more frequently, I'll contact Marantz.
Sorry for rambling, but my friends aren't into this stuff. So I hope it's OK to vent my enthusiasm with you all.
