Post Your Home Cine & HiFi Kit...

gitbags · 11 Dec 2011 at 19:13

johny dolan, you and your brother have some truly beautiful kit. I especially love the look of your brothers sme deck, not that the gyro deck ain't a looker

easyrider · 11 Dec 2011 at 19:26

EQDruid said:
Almost finished with the Theater Room, Used a Denom AVR-5308CI amp/reciever.
with front left and right speakers Klipsch R-3800, the MTX HT2625W as a center, and 4 Klipsch R-2650 in the ceiling for Left right, and left right rear.

The Sub is a Polk Audio DSW MicroPRO 4000.

Projector is a Mitsubishi HC 6500, in 1080P. Displaying a 15 foot Display. ( Makes Sniping super easy... lol )

Still need to raise the rear seating area, above the Futon area.

Here are the new pictures. Will post more once I am done.

EQDruid

Hi mate

lovely install

How easy was the Klipsch R-3800 to install?

Moeks · 11 Dec 2011 at 20:42

Indeed, some nice stuff and johny dolan you'ed be right, I do like your brother's setup

starkill3r · 14 Dec 2011 at 17:24

My home theater, not very good pics, will take better ones at some point lol

simonprr · 14 Dec 2011 at 17:43

starkill3r - what PJ you got? what size screen is that too? very cool tho!!

starkill3r · 14 Dec 2011 at 18:51

simonprr said:
starkill3r - what PJ you got? what size screen is that too? very cool tho!!

It's an Optoma HD67N 3D projector, it's only 720p but the image is great, the pics don't do it justice, and it does take 1080p and 24p, 3D is fantastic on it as well, will shortly be upgrading to another 1080p projector soon, I miss my Panny

The screen is a 84" manual Optoma pull down.

Thanks!

lay-z-boy · 14 Dec 2011 at 22:54

Looks great, though you don't have a record player or an amplifier made of snake oil so you aren't going to be pleasing the raging audiophiles here.

What projector are you upgrading to? From what I read the 3d requires an expensive extra box if you want 3d from anything other than a nvidia based pc.

TBH, I'd rather have 1080p over 3d. I just hardly ever use 3d and I even put a reasonable amount of effort into sourcing 3d content.

starkill3r · 15 Dec 2011 at 00:02

lay-z-boy said:
Looks great, though you don't have a record player or an amplifier made of snake oil so you aren't going to be pleasing the raging audiophiles here.

What projector are you upgrading to? From what I read the 3d requires an expensive extra box if you want 3d from anything other than a nvidia based pc.

TBH, I'd rather have 1080p over 3d. I just hardly ever use 3d and I even put a reasonable amount of effort into sourcing 3d content.

I've got a LG 5.1 surround sound jobby for the time being, it does DTS etc and is loud and bassy enough for the moment, I'll be soon getting separates and an Onkyo amp from a mate at a steal.

I don't care for the 3D-XL box, I use my PC/Laptop for 3D via nvidia 3D vision, plays all my 3D movies/games perfectly, I'm the same, I'd rather have 1080p that's why I'm going to upgrade, I did have a panasonic pt-ae4000 but sold it, which I regret big time, but it was just to big for my room.

I'm looking at a HD20 or similar, the hd67n is a brilliant little PJ though and at the size 720p looks fantastic, I just want those extra pixels! still wow's my mates when they come round though

johny dolan · 16 Dec 2011 at 09:31

Moeks · 16 Dec 2011 at 15:41

Oh my ...now that is some Hi-Fi porn right there.

Martynt74 · 16 Dec 2011 at 16:45

Definately, i never quite got to grips with Vinyl when i got a turntable last year. Always found myself still just buying cd's all the time!

Somnambulist · 16 Dec 2011 at 20:21

Every time I see vinyl setups now I think of this lol

marl · 16 Dec 2011 at 21:57

Wow!!!! Some really impressive systems in that video... Amazing stuff...

Derek W · 16 Dec 2011 at 22:06

Marvt74 said:
Definately, i never quite got to grips with Vinyl when i got a turntable last year.

Thats the beauty of vinyl, you can get to grips with it

unlike cds where you bung it in the holder and click a button.

Somnambulist · 17 Dec 2011 at 03:40

marl said:
Wow!!!! Some really impressive systems in that video... Amazing stuff...

Most of them are nuts though and have fallen for a lot of classic audiophile sales BS, e.g. Mr. 50% of my sound is the electricity. I'm not fussed about ever owning a vinyl setup, but it bugs the hell out of me that many albums these days use different mastering for the CD and vinyl versions, and the latter has superior mastering 99% of the time. For example if you ever see the name Vlado Meller, you can be certain the CD is brick-walled and sounds terrible.

See LFF's posting on Head-Fi (he's a mastering engineer who refuses to do any work where he has to 'commit musical genocide' on an album by playing the loudness war game.

wonko · 17 Dec 2011 at 09:10

Somnambulist said:
Every time I see vinyl setups now I think of this lol

Thanks for posting that. I particularly liked the expressions on the wives' faces when they answered the 'how much did it cost?' questions. You could almost see it being calculated in terms of shoes

The film also reflects audiophilia being a predominently male thing, which seems a bit odd to me, as in theory as I'd have expected the emotional part of listening to music would make it more of a female trait. Just shows what I know about it/them

.

There was a bit of Diana Krall's Temptation playing, which I must put on later and wind the volume up. As I haven't got a crazy turntable, valve amps, equipment racks or mains conditioners it will obviously sound rubbish.

johny dolan · 17 Dec 2011 at 12:18

Somnambulist said:
Most of them are nuts though and have fallen for a lot of classic audiophile sales BS, e.g. Mr. 50% of my sound is the electricity. I'm not fussed about ever owning a vinyl setup, but it bugs the hell out of me that many albums these days use different mastering for the CD and vinyl versions, and the latter has superior mastering 99% of the time. For example if you ever see the name Vlado Meller, you can be certain the CD is brick-walled and sounds terrible.

See LFF's posting on Head-Fi (he's a mastering engineer who refuses to do any work where he has to 'commit musical genocide' on an album by playing the loudness war game.

I have 6 or so albums on both formats and the record beats the cd every time.

The recent Adele 21 cd sounded so bad compared to the lp version i measured them and the cd has digital clipping and sounds rather nasty.

The lp has no clipping and a large dynamic range and is in fact one of my best sounding records.

The loudness war with modern music has made most of it sound ***** when played on a good hifi system because its made to sound good on mobile phones nowadays which is a bloody shame.

easyrider · 17 Dec 2011 at 12:43

johny dolan said:
I have 6 or so albums on both formats and the record beats the cd every time.

The recent Adele 21 cd sounded so bad compared to the lp version i measured them and the cd has digital clipping and sounds rather nasty.

The lp has no clipping and a large dynamic range and is in fact one of my best sounding records.

The loudness war with modern music has made most of it sound ***** when played on a good hifi system because its made to sound good on mobile phones nowadays which is a bloody shame.

Well said m8....

marl · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:51

easyrider said:
Well said m8....

Good point.

wonko · 17 Dec 2011 at 15:20

johny dolan said:
The recent Adele 21 cd sounded so bad ....
... which is a bloody shame.

+1. Some great songs on the album, made painful to listen to.

Fortunately a lot of the music I listen to predates the worst of the loudness wars.