Monitor:
24" Sony Wega

Receiver:
Sony STR-DE845

DVD Player:
Sony DVP-S330

Video Recorder:
Sony DNR-2000 30-Hour TiVo Unit

Home Theater PC (not shown in pics):
Dell Insprion 8000 Laptop with S-Video out and Digital Coax out

VCR:
Toshiba HiFi 4-head

Football Simulator:
Nintendo 64

Remote Control:
Sony RM-AV2100 Remote Commander

Front Speakers:
Sony MF-315s

Center Channel Speaker:
Sony CN490

Surround Speakers:
Polk Audio R10s

Subwoofer:
Sony SA-WM40

Jeff Croft

The front soundstage, A/V rack, and 24" Wega. It's a small room, so I think the TV size is appropriate. I sit around six feet from the TV. The rack is a Salamander Designs Archetype 5.0. You can see my Sony LCD remote and my $8 IKEA Robin Clamp Spotlight, which I love (attached to the A/V rack).

Here you can see one of the theater's most frequent customers, perched atop the center channel. His name is Jaco Pastorius Croft. The shelf for the center speaker was about $15 at a local home accent store. I use them for my surrounds, too. You can also see my DVD collection (about 60 DVDs), which is in desperate need of it's own rack (Boltz-USA, here I come).

This is a shot of my Polk surround, which sits atop another $15 shelf. Another IKEA spotlight is ready to shine on my ShowOff Displays move poster frames (when they get here...they're ordered, but not here yet). Also visibe is my Dogma poster, singed by writer/director Kevin Smith. This will get a frame when they arrive, alone with my posters from American Beauty, Almost Famous, and Chasing Amy.

A shot of my back wall. As you can see, my small apartment room requires me to have the surround directly above the listening position, on small shelves. With the help of the forums, I found out that facing the speakers inwards towards one another makes a HUGE difference in sound with this seating arrangement. I get a great rear soundfield right over my head. Before facing them inward, the rears were not nearly as present. I'm thinking I'll probably put the American Beauty poster in frame right there in the center of the surrounds.

A simple screenshot of the Wega with a 1.85:1 matte on for Almost Famous. That's Billy Crudup in the already-classic Tiny Dancer scene.

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