Post Your Home Cine & HiFi Kit...
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Hi everyone,
This is my first post. Accidentally stumbled across this forum when researching XBMC. Just thought I would post my current setup. This is my first time purchasing many of the components making up my home cinema system and as such I would consider it to be a fairly basic, entry level setup. All of the equipment is behind the TV, under the stairs. All wires are hidden, including the rear surround cables which I hid inside the walls.
Excuse the pic.
Samsung Series 6 rose 46" TV,
Yamaha RXV 675 AV,
Tannoy HTS 101 Speakers,
PS4,
MX Linux HTPC running XBMC,
Synology DS414 NAS
This is my first post. Accidentally stumbled across this forum when researching XBMC. Just thought I would post my current setup. This is my first time purchasing many of the components making up my home cinema system and as such I would consider it to be a fairly basic, entry level setup. All of the equipment is behind the TV, under the stairs. All wires are hidden, including the rear surround cables which I hid inside the walls.
Excuse the pic.
Samsung Series 6 rose 46" TV,
Yamaha RXV 675 AV,
Tannoy HTS 101 Speakers,
PS4,
MX Linux HTPC running XBMC,
Synology DS414 NAS
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What's the view on TV height? I always thought it was best to mount with eye level at 1/3 the way up the screen, anyone care to confirm at all? I'll finally mount mine this wknd
What you say is right, however when you mount a TV without it being on a cabinet, it is a lot more vulnerable to being accidentally damaged, especially if you have kids.
My TV sits halfway up the wall with a low ceiling. When seated, out heads would be in the bottom third of the screen. TBH, I think it's a perfect height. When paying the PS4, I sometimes like to stand and it's not too high and not too low.
Did you use trunking through the wall? If not was it a hard job getting cables through the wall.
Hi everyone,
This is my first post. Accidentally stumbled across this forum when researching XBMC. Just thought I would post my current setup. This is my first time purchasing many of the components making up my home cinema system and as such I would consider it to be a fairly basic, entry level setup. All of the equipment is behind the TV, under the stairs. All wires are hidden, including the rear surround cables which I hid inside the walls.
Excuse the pic.
Samsung Series 6 rose 46" TV,
Yamaha RXV 675 AV,
Tannoy HTS 101 Speakers,
PS4,
MX Linux HTPC running XBMC,
Synology DS414 NAS
Nice to see an install without wires...kudos....welcome to the no wires club
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It was a nightmare, apparently I have non standard walls. There is cardboard insulation inside the wall which had to be pushed through from point A to point B. My knuckles still haven't recovered, lol. The back wall for the rear surround was easy, it was concrete. I used a Brick bolster to chisel out a straight line to the skirting board, where I ran the cable under the carpet. I then used polly filler to fill it in.
here are some pics I tool while doing it to give you an idea. I'm sure it could have been done easier but this was my first time doing anything like this.
You can see below the cardboard boxes that make up the inside of the wall. I had to use poles to burst through, which is why the areas cut out are large, as the angle was tight.
rear speaker:
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New toys.
Cant believe i dint get a projector earlier
List of gear. My wage is crap and with a young family but I enjoy my work so I try to get the best that I can afford
Samsung PS51E6500
SkyHD/PS4
Panasonic DMP-BDT330
Yamaha RX-V673/Q Acoustics 1010i 5.1
Benq 1070 and 92" screen
Cant believe i dint get a projector earlier
List of gear. My wage is crap and with a young family but I enjoy my work so I try to get the best that I can afford
Samsung PS51E6500
SkyHD/PS4
Panasonic DMP-BDT330
Yamaha RX-V673/Q Acoustics 1010i 5.1
Benq 1070 and 92" screen
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Thirsty work setting that lot up.... Fruit Shoot for the win 
Enjoy it
Enjoy it
Crappy phone quality photos from when I had my speakers installed. Really happy with how neatly it all came out. I guess one advantage of having flimsy plasterboard walls is that it's (relatively) easy to route cables behind it!
I don't think the fact that I had thick "studio grade" (Van Damme Blue) cable helped (it got stuck several times as it was routed through the final part of the wall).
I don't think the fact that I had thick "studio grade" (Van Damme Blue) cable helped (it got stuck several times as it was routed through the final part of the wall).
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Added the Young dac
Moved my M-dac over for headphone use with the pc.
Moved my M-dac over for headphone use with the pc.
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Fitted a 12 way powercon mains distribution unit which now powers all of the hifi and my pc.
I also dismantled my newly acquired tannoy studio monitors to check the condition of the crossovers. I took the opportunity to give the cabinets a good clean and wax/polish. Turned out the the crossovers only used plastic film capacitors, so no restoration work was needed.
One 10" monitor gold woofer/tweeter assembly.
All reassembled in a very clean walnut cabinet.
I also dismantled my newly acquired tannoy studio monitors to check the condition of the crossovers. I took the opportunity to give the cabinets a good clean and wax/polish. Turned out the the crossovers only used plastic film capacitors, so no restoration work was needed.
One 10" monitor gold woofer/tweeter assembly.
All reassembled in a very clean walnut cabinet.
Soldato
Moogleys, what unit is that please?
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Well been having a few issues with my trusty Arcam AVR280. Think ive had it around 5-6 years now. Still sounds great and for AV amp its about as musical as ive heard. Still nothing close to a £600 stereo amp but that's to be expected.
Last few months, every now and again a loud static noise has been coming from the left rear speaker, then the amp would switch off. It would switch back on again straight away and work as normal. Sometimes it would work fine for weeks before it would happen again. Very frustrating, replaced cables, even speakers and fault persisted. Must be a dry joint on some iffy internal connection. I did try and open it up to look inside for any obvious issue but ervything looking mint and was err, very busy
Anyways, couldnt risk it blowing my speakers. Plus I was kind of after something that did sound over HDMI. So needed a replacement. Got rather a lot going on this year so splashing out on a new one wasnt an option right now. The ones I was looking at were all priced 2-3k for a worthwhile upgrade soundwise over the AVR280. So as astop gap I just trailed the bay.
Picked up a Denon AVR 2809 for a little over £150. Its pretty much mint and has been very well looked after.
Initial thoughts are pretty good actually. Music wise it isnt as good as the Arcam, but its much better then other AV amps I have auditioned. With movies though its really rather good. Steers the effects really well and has a decent amount of slam, yet handles the subtle bits well.
Setting it all up was a faff. First time with a Denon product and whoever writes their manuals needs firing. Getting there I think. Ditched the initial Audessy setup as I did it manually after setting the old fashioned way (sound meter and tape measure) and to my ears I much preferred how it sounded.
This should tide me over until I can get the amp I want. Just need to decide what to do with the Arcam now. Really dont want to chuck it as its a lovely sounding AV amp but repair costs are more then its worth.
Last few months, every now and again a loud static noise has been coming from the left rear speaker, then the amp would switch off. It would switch back on again straight away and work as normal. Sometimes it would work fine for weeks before it would happen again. Very frustrating, replaced cables, even speakers and fault persisted. Must be a dry joint on some iffy internal connection. I did try and open it up to look inside for any obvious issue but ervything looking mint and was err, very busy
Anyways, couldnt risk it blowing my speakers. Plus I was kind of after something that did sound over HDMI. So needed a replacement. Got rather a lot going on this year so splashing out on a new one wasnt an option right now. The ones I was looking at were all priced 2-3k for a worthwhile upgrade soundwise over the AVR280. So as astop gap I just trailed the bay.
Picked up a Denon AVR 2809 for a little over £150. Its pretty much mint and has been very well looked after.
Initial thoughts are pretty good actually. Music wise it isnt as good as the Arcam, but its much better then other AV amps I have auditioned. With movies though its really rather good. Steers the effects really well and has a decent amount of slam, yet handles the subtle bits well.
Setting it all up was a faff. First time with a Denon product and whoever writes their manuals needs firing. Getting there I think. Ditched the initial Audessy setup as I did it manually after setting the old fashioned way (sound meter and tape measure) and to my ears I much preferred how it sounded.
This should tide me over until I can get the amp I want. Just need to decide what to do with the Arcam now. Really dont want to chuck it as its a lovely sounding AV amp but repair costs are more then its worth.
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You know there's a trade-in deal on Arcam at the moment? Should bring the AVR450 in at just over £1200 if you trade yours in. There's also a couple of places with AVR400 left at £1k - if you can trade in your AVR280 for a couple of hundred that's a pretty good deal.