I love to see knowledge debunk what may be considered mass fact. There is no shame in being wrong. There is in knowing it and lying to further the argument. This has ben a great thread.
I have never heard the f12 but the axioms are fantastic speaker. They are not "Bass shy" as you put it but do have very detailed highs that stike some as bright. The bass is very good also.
Tom V., I thought all along that Velo claim by some was fishy. Could not find any comparo's to check on it though. Do you have a link to that test you quoted from?
I bought my first DVD player in 1997 for $900 and still have it. Not one player (even the cheap ones) that I have owned has ever skipped. I have never even heard of that before. Well, I guess you live and learn!
I have 2 center channels and the diffrence between them and one is night and day. I started with one below the screen but it just did not sound right. I moved it above the screen and it was better but something was off. I now have 2 centers mounted above the screen pointing towards the listener...
I think everybody feels like that. I went to the theater with my nephew and al he said afterwards was "It's not the same......its just not he same." This was the day after he watched 2 movies in my home theater. It's hard to drag my wife to the movies now. She just wants to wait till the come...
SIStray is nor suspicious. Have you chaeck the hklmsoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionrun and hklmsoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionrun once to verify it was not launching somethign on startup? I assume you checked the startup folder for your profile as well as all users? Those are the...
I bought the 4805 almost a year ago and am very happy with it. It cost me 999 usd. The Screenplay 5000 can now be had for only 999! It does true HD res. If I were buying today, I would not get the 4805 instead of the 5000.
Thats what calibtration is for. You bring all the speakers to 75db (or 85 db depending on what you use). Due to room variations and distance, each individual speakers boost/trim will vary.
A grill over a sub is usually acoustically trasparent. An AC vent is going to reflect some of the bass energy back into the atic. It wont be good at all. An 8" sub is generally not good for HT to begin with, but a 5 year old HTIB sub will be pretty horrible. I will bet you that it wont handle...
You are not going to get much out of 5 year old 8" jbl HTIB sub to begin with. Even less with it firing through a ac vent from the atic. If you are willing to spend up to 300 on a amp, spend 120 more and grab a SVS pb10. Place it in room and you will enjoy it much more.
My room is very similar in size to yours and almost setup exactly like your plan. I have 2 rows and use Axiom qs8 qualdpoles for for all the surrounds. I have a 4 "side" sourounds, a left and a right for each row, and 2 rears. It sounds fantastic.
mikeMeyerson, The reciever should match the room. An underpower amp stage is very hard to make up for with efficent speakers. You can put 91db efficent speakers in that big ole room and still feel underpowered. Whatever you do, make sure you get the reciever from a place that it's easy to do...
Like I said, clean is the problem. You will get spikes that will cause major clipping. If you like to listen very loudly in a large room, you need more power.
You were getting distortion from the old receiver? You mean that it was causeing a hum in your main system? Or do you mean you could tell the signal to the bass shaker was distorted? I am not real sure how that would be possible.