Post Your Home Cine & HiFi Kit...

Phil2008 · 4 Apr 2011 at 01:52

lay-z-boy said:
Possibly, just err on the side of caution as some brands label max with totally opposite meanings. Max on my yamaha results in huge explosions and standard volume dialogue, on others it can mean max amount of compression.

Ive tried mine at normal and max settings, and like you say it reduces the loud sounds, in the manual it says it compresses the sound......

lay-z-boy · 4 Apr 2011 at 11:19

Yup, max is the option you want.

Though I just use headphones after a certain time. Saves fiddling.

phill1978 · 4 Apr 2011 at 18:17

my kit is getting long in the tooth but still produces what i want and is well looked after

AVC-A1SR +SE £600 upgrade dac with THX Ultra 2 and PLII -
16 x Burrbrown Dacs @ 24,192khz! + 10.2 170w per channel.

B&W CDM-NT range in 5.1 with KEF sub. all on Atacama stands sand filled, bi wired

PS3 optical to amp, HDMi to Projector

Benq W5000 latest firmware @ 1080p 84" panoview matt white high gain screen.

quite nice purchases as i manage to get lots off on each piece of kit. id describe the sound as majestic and refined perhaps not metallic or lots of slam just very clean deep bass and layered with lots of detail.

Participant · 4 Apr 2011 at 18:27

phill1978 said:
my kit is getting long in the tooth but still produces what i want and is well looked after

AVC-A1SR +SE £600 upgrade dac with THX Ultra 2 and PLII -
16 x Burrbrown Dacs @ 24,192khz! + 10.2 170w per channel.

B&W CDM-NT range in 5.1 with KEF sub. all on Atacama stands sand filled, bi wired

PS3 optical to amp, HDMi to Projector

Benq W5000 latest firmware @ 1080p 84" panoview matt white high gain screen.

quite nice purchases as i manage to get lots off on each piece of kit. id describe the sound as majestic and refined perhaps not metallic or lots of slam just very clean deep bass and layered with lots of detail.

That's great. Pics?

Sparky · 4 Apr 2011 at 20:46

After a new centre speaker [using a KEF Egg atm] as my Tannoy one is FUBAR.

Rest of system is:

Mission 752 fronts and rears
Mordaunt Short MSW20
Onkyo 506

Something that will sit nicely with these?

Soul.Survivor · 5 Apr 2011 at 01:11

You could try adding a mission Centre. I might have a Mission 77C1 for sale soon if your interested CS||nuTs?

What subwoofer are you using?

Sparky · 5 Apr 2011 at 09:32

Mordaunt Short MSW20

Soul.Survivor · 5 Apr 2011 at 14:35

Ah yes, I had the model number mixed up with MS speakers.

Check your trust

DiCe! · 7 Apr 2011 at 11:05

Just purchased

LG 37LD490

First Proper TV, to be delivered tomorrow, excited much

start of my little project

Soul.Survivor · 7 Apr 2011 at 13:44

Good tv that!

What's the rest of your kit?

Phil2008 · 7 Apr 2011 at 22:49

Lowe said:
Had a few new additions over the last week or so...

These showed up yesterday

PMC FB1i with a couple of custom mods

Panasonic 50" G20B

Ignore the state of the room, we're mid decoration in other parts of the house and the living room will be the last done due to chasing all the cables into the walls. The DB1i have been moved to rear surround duties.

**** me over 2 grand, and I thought the RX6's were bad enough at £800

Lowe · 8 Apr 2011 at 10:14

Phil2008 said:
**** me over 2 grand, and I thought the RX6's were bad enough at £800

Yeah, they're a little more than that by the time you add in the mods as well. The surround/centre DB1's aren't cheap either, kinda makes me wince when I add it all up. Still, it makes for a great home system and helps me with my own work as an audio engineer too. Good job we're detached.

DiCe! · 9 Apr 2011 at 17:05

Soul.Survivor said:
Good tv that!

What's the rest of your kit?

It is amazing, just that at the moment, going to be hooking up to a HTPC on payday, HOWEVER it isnt seeing USB sticks/hard drives atm...not that it really bothers me as i say the HTPC but still a tad annoying

ste-sim2x9 · 9 Apr 2011 at 21:33

Did abit of diy and put the tv on the was and put the wires in the wall.

From This

To This

Fr0dders · 9 Apr 2011 at 21:34

whats the thing your kinect is on ?

ste-sim2x9 · 9 Apr 2011 at 21:40

Crown Kinect Sensor Camera TV Mount £7.99

DannyW · 10 Apr 2011 at 15:14

50G20B - Owned it 3 days now

SRCMAN · 10 Apr 2011 at 20:09

DannyW said:
50G20B - Owned it 3 days now

How are the Tannoy speakers? Give good sound for their size?

Had my eye on these for a while.

DannyW · 10 Apr 2011 at 20:16

Yep for their size there brill, however for an extra £50 i wish id of gone for the boston soundware xs's (they were an extra £100+ a few months ago, on offer atm)

DiCe! · 11 Apr 2011 at 10:50

DiCe! said:
It is amazing, just that at the moment, going to be hooking up to a HTPC on payday, HOWEVER it isnt seeing USB sticks/hard drives atm...not that it really bothers me as i say the HTPC but still a tad annoying

Spoke to LG techs and was very very close to sending my TV back....then had a thought....i wonder if they read NTFS? NO they dont, and the techs hadnt mentioned this, tried a FAT32....hey presto!

I would have been very annoyed to say the least if i had sent it back!