Who has what?

Sparky

So, any of you out there with a home cinema, what do you have when it comes to the audio side of home cinema?

I have a fairly moderate sized room, bearing in mind it does get used for other things also, but I have the following all purchased just over 12 months ago.

Pioneer VSX-D514 AV receiver.
Kenwood 3 way floorstanding speakers (130w each) (mainly for just audio music)
Yamaha NX-E130 satellite speakers x5 (100w each)
Yamaha SW-P130 subwoofer

mathias

Mine is Humble but better than average , it will do me for now ,

I have a Sony STR790 hooked up to a Mordaunt short Avant premiere plus set of surrounds.
Everything plays either off my HTPC setup ( DVD Jukebox , and Audio Jukebox , through a Terratic Aureon 5.1 card ) or from My Pioneer 595 disc player ( Multi channel analog out ).
Im a big fan of SACD and DVD audio.

When I get rich Im getting and Pioneer AX10 and a set of Nautilus from Bowers and Wilkins.

Idleater

Sparky-s wrote:

So, any of you out there with a home cinema, what do you have when it comes to the audio side of home cinema?

My current system was built about 5 years ago.

Technics VSX something or other Amplifier - 6x120w
Jazz Speakers DTS Decoder.
Pioneer 514 CDRW
Philips 515 DVD (one of the original DVD players)
Pioneer dvr433 HD DVD recorder

Speakers: Revolver 120w biamp'd biwired floorstander fronts, and 100w bookshelf rears, Wharfdale Centre and a 120w sub, cant remember the name.

I am looking at upgrading to an
Arcam avr350 amplifier with either System Audio 1550's, 1530's or B+W 603's as fronts.

L.

godtabh

Makes me cry reading some of the above posts!

I still leave at home and only have a crappy 5.1 system hooked up to my laptop, dvd recorder and xbox 360.

Moving into a new gaff and am looking around at the moment but this could be on the cards after a bit of research

mossym

my system

Denon AVR3803 receiver
B&W DM603 S2 Fronts
B&W LCR600 Center
B&W DM601's Surrounds
HSU STF-3 Subwoofer, can't get them here, bought in the usa, but to give you some idea, it's 2 foot high, 15" wide and 2ft long...it is some serious bass..( http://www.hsustore.com/stf3.html)


good enough that sometimes i just listen to movies...

next move might be to upgrade receiver, new denon 4806 looks sweet.

ComeOnMeath

Canton Movie CD101 Surrounds & Sub
Canton CD50 Centre
Sammy R40"
Sammy HD860
Yamaha 459 6.1 AV Receiver

Small room and awaiting complaints from the neighbours, without sounding silly, my room just comes alive with DTS!!

mossym

why just dts?

ComeOnMeath

No, not just DTS, but without doubt my preference for Movies that have it

mossym

full bitrate dts yeah, but there a re a few movies where the DD soundtrack is better than the DTS..worth trying both...

ComeOnMeath

Absolutely!!

Very little between them anyhow IMO, both sound fantastic and can make an average movie that much better. Money well spent I reckon!!

Cooee

Hey ComeonMeath...

I am just about to buy a set of the Canton CD101s and the Yammy 459.

I see you list a centre speaker separately from the CD101. Did you upgrade the centre speaker from the one that comes with the CD101 set? And if yes any reason why?

thanx.

ComeOnMeath

Cooee wrote:

Hey ComeonMeath...

I am just about to buy a set of the Canton CD101s and the Yammy 459.

I see you list a centre speaker separately from the CD101. Did you upgrade the centre speaker from the one that comes with the CD101 set? And if yes any reason why?

thanx.

The Yam 459 as you probably know is 6.1, the CD101 is a 5.1 setup. You can use the centre speaker as the centre rear and upgrade the front centre to the CD50. TBH, the CD20 (I think its called), i.e. the centre speaker that comes with the CD101 was fantastic, and the CD50 IMO is not that much better, but if you want an extra surround speaker for the 6.1 you have to buy a minimum 2xCD10 speakers. So you are left with one extra, so buying the CD50 makes more sense if you want the full 6.1. But if you are happy with 5.1, well take my word for it the CD101 as its packaged is fantastic and you'll be very happy. Good choice

Cooee

My room design does not allow for 6.1/7.1 - so I will be using it as a traditional 5.1 setup!

Good to see that ur using a 459 - from reading stuff I was half worried that the 459 would not power the 101s well enuff - but you seem to be happy, so that takes that concern away!

-cooee

ComeOnMeath

Cooee wrote:

My room design does not allow for 6.1/7.1 - so I will be using it as a traditional 5.1 setup!

Good to see that ur using a 459 - from reading stuff I was half worried that the 459 would not power the 101s well enuff - but you seem to be happy, so that takes that concern away!

-cooee

Yep, certainly no issue powering the speakers. I will say the setup of the AMP is everything though. They say you should set the speakers to small, I found this not great for music and much better set to large. However this gives way too much bass during a good DTS movie, so bass volume I have set to half way on the bass itself, crossover is set to around 80/90. I have the centre speaker that bit louder than the surround speakers. Tinkering is the best way to put it, it takes a while and the speakers themselves need to be run in for about 100 hours. When you hear people talking about the 459, it's mostly in relation to major floorstanding speakers, the 459 might be a bit overwhelmed here alright, but for this lot it's more than enough.

Cmar-Ireland

Current setup as follows,

Sony STR-DB940 Amp
Sony DVP-NS930 SACD/DVD Player
Sony DVP-NS76 Upscaleing DVD player
Mission Cinema 6 Pack 5.1 surround
Sony VPL-HS60 Projector

mossym

like sony so do you?:D

HungryJoey

Nothing too fancy myself, Its in a very small room so Really it does the job. But I am still after a whole new seperates system sometime.

32" Samsung LCD
5.1 500 Watt Samsung Surround system
Samsung DVD player Component output
Sky+ 80GB
Xbox 360 & PS2
HTPC - AXP 2200+, 1GB DDR etc..

Its all in a garage conversion / Computer room so yeah, Its prety nice for a small room. But definetly, Can't wait to get up a whole new seperates system, But I'm just spending all my money else where. All going on audio equiptment for recording and computer equiptment.

Hj

John mac

Pioneer dv636d,......... dvd player
Pioneer vsx 810s ,.......Reciever
Pioneer pdz83m,..........multi cd player
Kef kht 2005,............. speakers
Panny tx 32lx60........... TV

All i want now is a hd box,

Cmar-Ireland

Cmar-Ireland wrote:

Current setup as follows,

Sony STR-DB940 Amp
Sony DVP-NS930 SACD/DVD Player
Sony DVP-NS76 Upscaleing DVD player
Mission Cinema 6 Pack 5.1 surround
Sony VPL-HS60 Projector

Just to update the set-up...

I've added a 2m 16:9 remote control electric screen.

Sparky

Nice one. Any pics?

dak

My System

Sony 32 inch flatscreen
Sony DCP-S725D DVD Player
Sony STR DB 1070 AV
Sony Active subwoofer
Bose Passive subwoofer
Bose Acustimas 5 speakers centre /left /right
Celestian 7's rear

And what you really must have - a old detached house with 2 foot stone walls and no immediate neighbours. Not being snobby but I think if you live in an apartment or semi detached house best bet is a packaged Home cinema kit. You only really get the most from it when you can turn the vol to max. When I added the Sony active sub- 3 pictures fell off the wall .....

Kintarō Hattori

Yamaha RXV-450 Amplifier
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/av/products/ht/rxv450.html

JBL SCS-200 Surround Speakers and Sub
http://www.jbl.com/home/products/product_detail.aspx?prod=SCS200.5&Language=ENG&Country=US&Region=USA&cat=HTS&ser=SCS

Panasonic DVD-S75
http://www.homecinemachoice.com/cgi-bin/displayreview.php?reviewid=2954

Wharfdale Diamond 8.3's for Music
http://www.audiocafe.co.kr/prod_image/diamond8_3_main.jpg

Sony 26" Flatscreen CRT
It's small, but it's a small-ish living room

mossym

dak wrote:

My System

Sony 32 inch flatscreen
Sony DCP-S725D DVD Player
Sony STR DB 1070 AV
Sony Active subwoofer
Bose Passive subwoofer
Bose Acustimas 5 speakers centre /left /right
Celestian 7's rear

And what you really must have - a old detached house with 2 foot stone walls and no immediate neighbours. Not being snobby but I think if you live in an apartment or semi detached house best bet is a packaged Home cinema kit. You only really get the most from it when you can turn the vol to max. When I added the Sony active sub- 3 pictures fell off the wall .....

not true..you may not be able to turn up the volume..but there is no reason you can't have quality

dak

mossym wrote:

not true..you may not be able to turn up the volume..but there is no reason you can't have quality

You can have quality at a low volume -what I was referring to was the full blown cinematic experience!!

GristlyEnd

ComeOnMeath wrote:

Canton Movie CD101 Surrounds & Sub
Sammy HD860
Yamaha 459 6.1 AV Receiver

I have the same system as you along with a Hitachi 37" plasma, Logitech 885 remote and Xantech 4 zone ir repeater.

Never new about this forum until today.

branners69

Here is my kit!!

Pioneer PDP-436XDE 43in Plasma
Pioneer VSX-AX4AVI AV Receiver
Pioneer DVR-530H DVD Recorder
Marantz DV7600 DVD Player - until I get my Pioneer Blu-Ray next year:D
Mordaunt-Short Genie 5.1 speaker system in black

Have my laptop, xbox, xbox 360, Sky+ and NTL Digital going through the surround sound and to the plasma!!

Control it all with my Harmony 885 Remote.

adox

My current audio kit is as follows:

Pioneer vsx 1011 receiver
Mission M73 fronts
Mission 77c1 centre
Mission M70 surrounds
Velodyne CHT-10 sub

delly

Tv is the Philips 42PF5421 LCD which I think I have gone on about enough for now

DVD player is the Sony DAV-SR1 with 700w speaker system. Although its an out of box all in one job the sound is great. Check out a review here http://www.homecinemachoice.com/cgi-bin/displayreview.php?reviewid=5554

The living room itself is quite large and also has a higher ceiling at 9ft, so the sound really wraps around well. Best part about being detached is just pumping the volume up and feeling the walls shake.

Sparky

Damn you delly. Damn you.



I wish I was detached.

DublinEvents

My home cinema system consists of just some humble headphones. I am only going to buy a surround system if I can somehow make my room sound proof so I don't disturb the neighbours. Any suggestions?

delly

Sparky-s wrote:

Damn you delly. Damn you.



I wish I was detached.

Thats the trade off for being an out of Dublin Commuter. Detached house > longer drives to work.

mossym

delly wrote:

Thats the trade off for being an out of Dublin Commuter. Detached house > longer drives to work.

detached house, 27' by 18' home cinema room, 25mins to work...

sometimes not living in dublin has benefits..:)

Slaphead07

I'll wade in as a newbie......

Panasonic 42" plasma
Arcam DV88+ DVD player mounted on Nordost Pulsar Points
Sony VCR
NTL cable box
Marantz Sr400 (I think) 6.1 amp
Tannoy 607s as fronts
Kef Centre
Yamaha Active Sub (also a Tsumami Sub a.k.a. REL needing a new woofer;) )
Accoustic Energy Compacts x 3 as rears


I,m moving to a newly renovated house in March '07 and the attic will be a dedicated Home Cinema. In Focus 5700 projector is waiting in the wings!

lifebook

I may as well put mine up to

Amp Pioneer VSX AX2AX-s 7.1 (THX and air)
DVD Pioneer DV757Ai Upgraded to mod 2
Xbox Media centre (best ever)
LG 42PC1D Plasma
Mordaunt Short 908 avant THX floor standers
Jamo E6 and E8 satellites with matching SUB

Room is 18X16, a little bigger and it would be perfect.

Also have everything upconverted to 1080i made running cables through chased wall a dream, just one HDMI and one power cable

Waiting on BLU-RAY and HD-DVD Battle to end

glav100

Just set mine up a purchased the same for two rooms. Not the most expensive system but it'll do little old me.

Hitachi 42PD9700
Pioneer VSX-D814
MISSION SYSTEM Speakers
Marantz DV6600

I got the KISS DP-600 for the other room.

Still testing but I have a detached house so I should have some fun with it.

Kintarō Hattori

In the bedroom:

Yamaha VS-10 Digital Amp
http://www.amazon.com/Yamaha-Cinemastation-Entertainment-System-PlayStation/dp/B00005B9AN

JBL E30C Bookshelf Speakers
http://www.amazon.com/JBL-Northridge-6-Inch-Speakers-Cherry/dp/B00018WNS8

Sony DVPNS36B DVD Player
http://www.rgbdirect.co.uk/referrer.asp?SKUNumber=104119&ReferrerCode=4

Sony 21" CRT TV - Same as the one below except mono version
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-KV21LS30-21-Nicam-TV/dp/B00006AV5J

Diarmuid

Mine:

NAD C320BEE
Infinity Beta 50 floorstanders
Squeezebox