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shitty pic sorry

37 inch samsung lcd
logitech z5500 speakers

Ty wrote:

I, which is to say my folks have a Bose system, couldn't tell you the specifics 'cause I don't know. That's hooked up to a Panasonic projector which projects a 2m wide screen onto the wall. Again I don't know the specifics, I just know it's awesome and a major reason I haven't gone flatting yet.

Hope it's not a $1000 paper and foam set.

I've been eager to post my setup, now that I have my new audio system completely installed now.

It isn't a super-big, awesomely-specced screen like Kmarion's, but it's enough. I just can't afford anything better

Some pics coming up.

The whole contraption, my 24" screen (Packard Bell with some cheap-ish Samsung panel, 1920x1200, 1000:1, 5ms), my 17" secondary, which is completely irrelevant, my amps and stereo mid/treb speakers.



Not much to say about that. It's obviously also my desktop. The screen can be angled down a couple of degrees, so that it's pointing a bit more straight toward my, er, "sofa:



(Yes, I know my sheets are hilarious)
I do have a real sofa, a quite good, 100%-leather one, but it covers the half of the wall that the bed does not, and I'm too lazy to move it

Amplifiers and mids/trebs close-up:





The small black speakers are ripped from an old 40" CRT TV, and do a quite good job at pumping mids and trebs. 2.5" and a nice little spheric horn. They're about 15W each. Coupled with my 6" Tandberg mids (brown ones, obviously), they have quite some force in the 300Hz-16kHz area. I have to bump up the higher mids a bit, though, or they'll sound a bit metallic. But once the EQ is set, they won't budge for just any system.

The big amp is my pride, a Luxman M120A, the best amplifier I've ever owned. 2x120W or 1x300W bridged. >110dB SNR and <0.015%(!!) THD under full load, even slightly better under lower load. I currently run it bridged to power my 150W 12" Pioneer sub (pic lower down), with a low-pass filter on the input. I'm gonna buy a pair of good stereo speakers soon (150W, 12" woofers, 5.5" mids and 3" horns), to use the amp to it's full potential.

I know I should be running the trebs/mids with it, as it's far, far, far superior to the semi-crap Pioneer SA-330 that I currently run those with, with a measly SNR of about 85dB. The problem is that the Pioneer is no more than 60W/ch, and nowhere near good-enough to power my sub decently. I wish I could get my hands on another M120A, but they aren't exactly something you find in the supermarket. The Pioneer is at least a simple linear amplifier, so it doesn't have the issues that most smaller modern amps have with sound altering and such. What comes in comes out.

Here comes my sub, an old fighter that I've had for many years. It's one of Pioneer's top models from around 2000. I got it for free after one of dad's drunk friends punched a crack in it. Wasn't a hard fix, as it's a plastic cone, and it had no coil damage. Some duct tape and filler, and it's good as new. It's held up for 4-5 years, and I hope for it to keep doing so for at least as many more. 12", 4Ω, 150W RMS. 400W peak for a couple of ms. The box is closed and about 50L. I have it standing in there to get a little more directed bass. If I have it on the floor, I basically only get any sound in the corners.



So yeah, that's my home theatre. It's more aimed at audio than video, as you might see. A big reason for that is that audio equipment is a lot easier to get for cheap than video. I haven't paid more than 30€ and a couple of hours of tinkering to get it working for all the audio stuff in this post. My 24", purchased when 24" displays weren't popular yet, was almost 500€ alone.

I hope you enjoyed the pics. +1 if you actually read through it all

get some bass traps Freezer or make them yourself

.Sup wrote:

get some bass traps Freezer or make them yourself

Nah, I don't really have issues as long as I keep the sub there. The only issue with acoustics I really have is my desk resonating at about 200Hz, but that's solved by putting some damping under the speakers.

.Sup wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

.Sup wrote:

get some bass traps Freezer or make them yourself

Nah, I don't really have issues as long as I keep the sub there. The only issue with acoustics I really have is my desk resonating at about 200Hz, but that's solved by putting some damping under the speakers.

Man I have big problems with acoustics, mainly cos of my door that is vibrating very bad at high volumes. Door and door handle. Have to put something over them and make a more firm installation of the doors.

I'm lucky enough to live in a concrete house. I have some wardrobes that vibrate, but they don't disturb as long as I keep them open.

how much for the center speaker sonder?

SonderKommando wrote:

.Sup wrote:

how much for the center speaker sonder?

It was like three something.  Getting matching LR floorstanders in one hour.. will post new pics!!

That receiver is gonna be quite a bottleneck.

Freezer7Pro wrote:

SonderKommando wrote:

.Sup wrote:

how much for the center speaker sonder?

It was like three something.  Getting matching LR floorstanders in one hour.. will post new pics!!

That receiver is gonna be quite a bottleneck.

You're crazy,  it sounds great.

Freezer7Pro wrote:

SonderKommando wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

That receiver is gonna be quite a bottleneck.

You're crazy,  it sounds great.

Yeah, it's not bad, got a similar one myself, but for those speakers, it's gonna be a bottleneck.

Not enough power?  This thing pumps all the latest audio formats (DD TrueHD/DTS Master Audio, the dealer from whom I have purchased all my equipment asserted it would be more than adequate.  I watched "Night at the Museum" with the wife last night and the Klipsch performance seemed flawless to me, it was better than going to a theater.

Last edited by SonderKommando (2009-07-15 18:13:10)

Freezer7Pro wrote:

SonderKommando wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

Yeah, it's not bad, got a similar one myself, but for those speakers, it's gonna be a bottleneck.

Not enough power?  This thing pumps all the latest audio formats (DD TrueHD/DTS Master Audio, the dealer from whom I have purchased all my equipment asserted it would be more than adequate.  I watched "Night at the Museum" with the wife last night and the Klipsch performance seemed flawless to me, it was better than going to a theater.

It doesn't go much under 0.1% THD at any volume, with both channels driven. It's decent, but it is limiting your speakers.

Hmm. Well itll have to do for now.  Thanks for the information Freezer. I plan on owning these for quite some time, so a new receiver isn't out of the question down the road.  They are more than adequate for my listening now though.

PS3 = Media Centre System + Bang and Olufsen 40" LCD

Just need speakers.

Last edited by Kurazoo (2009-07-16 16:00:28)