Updated my setup.. now including PS3 :D

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EVH said:
Main reason I went stereo instead of surround is that when I built the house (converted barn) I forgot to lay my speaker cabling before I went off on holidays for two weeks (what an idiot considering it's what I do for a living!) so when I returned and the plasterers had finished it was too late (dot and dab, so no room to fish cables in (like if it had been dry lining)).

It is possible, but it would require one of the following methods a) running speaker flex around the room , perhaps along the skirting b) digging up the floor and/or chasing them around that way and to be honest the benefits don't really outweigh the hassle :(

Back to the SkyHD.. I have the max package from sky at the moment (all the channels) + another box on multiroom (+ £10);

How much would it be to update me to the HD package? Bearing in mind I have 1 old regular sky box, and an existing Sky+ box? Would it be a case of updating the Sky+ box -> a HD one for £££ and using the Sky+ box in place of the regular?
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£149 if you buy someting from one of the big boys - what i did was buy a tv, and then took it back the week after - bingo, got my skyhd for £149 ;) (its another £10 a month afterwards).
 
Sorry to sound like an idiot..

Your saying it's an extra tenner on top of what I pay now + the box charge? :)
 
It says on the sky website "Sky+ functionality is FREE with Sky HD." so it can't be £10 extra on top of sky +, so it can only mean £10 extra on top of a standard subscription.

Unless of course you aren't paying £10 a month, and are getting sky+ free because you have the movie package, in which case it will be another £10 as your paying for the channels rather than the hd functionality.

I'll be getting rid of the movie package when I get skyhd, so it will actually be £4 less a month then I'm paying now. The movies are absolute crap! I don't think they've ever shown any of the top 250 movies on the imdb.
 
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Energize said:
It says on the sky website "Sky+ functionality is FREE with Sky HD." so it can't be £10 extra on top of sky +, so it can only mean £10 extra on top of a standard subscription.

Unless of course you aren't paying £10 a month, and are getting sky+ free because you have the movie package, in which case it will be another £10 as your paying for the channels rather than the hd functionality.

I'll be getting rid of the movie package when I get skyhd, so it will actually be £4 less a month then I'm paying now. The movies are absolute crap! I don't think they've ever shown any of the top 250 movies on the imdb.
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It probably has changed, but sky+ was a tenner and you only got it free if you took the full channel package. Then skyHD was an extra £10 regardless of package. So on a limited package it was +£20
 
EVH said:
Sadly.. no Sky HD :(

To be honest I can't part with the cash for the minimal HD channels just yet. Shame because I think it would blend in perfect (than my BRIGHT white Sky+ box!)

As for the wiring.. thanks! A keen eye will notice the merticulous tidying on the surge protector!
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Very good choice mate.

Sky HD is a waste of money. Yes, it's nice watching football and rugby matches in such high quality but it ends there. Sky One HD has a few shows in HD, most of which I don't watch.
 
squiffy said:
Not if he adds quality surround gear to his existing setup. You don't get the immersion from stereo in movies, nor the house shaking bass.
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Unless he does as you have described.

I would rather go for his Stereo setup than the same price surround setup.

Josh
 
Very nice setup there matey in terms of both equipment and layout and tidyness :)

However its so crying out for a decent motorised screen to come down infront of the tiny daytime display for evening and movie viewing! Get on it!
 
Yes but there are some "audiophile" iPod docks which are meant to offer much better sound than the "cheap" :D apple one.
 
The sound still gets processed from the iPod, so will still never appease a true audiophile. :p
 
Stag said:
The sound still gets processed from the iPod, so will still never appease a true audiophile. :p
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Would anything souced by even an aac please an audiophile (I was thinking you were meaning from the hardware point of view, but maybe you were referring to both ) :D
 
He has a CDP aswell, ipod docks/squeezebox/etc are just more convenient for those occasions where you're not actually having a listening session :)
 
I also have a wireless Apple Airport to stream music directly from iTunes to the amp :cool:

Very rarely do I use the actual iPod to play music.. it's just easier to dock it and sit the laptop on the top shelf when i'm syncing the iPod.

The dock is the standard Apple Universal dock.
 
EVH said:
4) Speakers are Audiovector Mi3 (covers removed) had them at a knockdown price when I had them because they were ex-demo. I've checked the drivers and they were all in tip-top shape so I was landed!. Tri way speakers, but currently (as i'm bi-amping) I have linked the lower and middle cones to the same output. I suppose if I didn't have stereo amp I could have gotten 3 mono channel amps and had 1 channel per cone but it's too much moolah + I can't be bothered to sell! lol
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would you not be better linking the middle cone and tweeter together and using the other amp on the bottom cone as it seems a waste using one amp for the tweeter as it uses a lot less power than the cones.

unless ive read what you said wrong?
 
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