I am in the process of building a new house and need some advice with the mixed use home theater. It is a 22'(L) x 15'10"(W) family room with coffered ceilings, open to a kitchen. For the WAF I want to keep it clean but not sacrifice on excellent sound. So I am planning to install good quality in-walls or on-walls.
Here are my questions:
1) I have been searching this and many other sites for a nice set of in-walls or on-walls and narrowed it down. The problem is, although I am in the Washington DC-metro area, very few places have the higher-end stuff on display (e.g., sunfire, atlantic technology, bg corp, morel, triad, paradigm, dynaudio, magnepan) and available to listen to. When I call the "dealers" listed on the respective company Websites, they all tell me to trust in their expertise. If speaker quality is largely subjective by each listener...why should I "trust" them? What do you suggest I do?
2) The builder is affiliated with Guardian and they are contracted to do all the low-power wiring (e.g., alarm system, whole-house audio, HT, etc.). They want to charge an arm-and-a-leg for their HT setup. I am having them put in the wiring for the Front L&R speakers and the in-ceiling rears. Should I also have them pre-wire an additional set of surrounds for 7.1, or is it not necessary?
3) Anything else you think I should get/ask for before the dry-wall goes in?
Thanks...
Here are my questions:
1) I have been searching this and many other sites for a nice set of in-walls or on-walls and narrowed it down. The problem is, although I am in the Washington DC-metro area, very few places have the higher-end stuff on display (e.g., sunfire, atlantic technology, bg corp, morel, triad, paradigm, dynaudio, magnepan) and available to listen to. When I call the "dealers" listed on the respective company Websites, they all tell me to trust in their expertise. If speaker quality is largely subjective by each listener...why should I "trust" them? What do you suggest I do?
2) The builder is affiliated with Guardian and they are contracted to do all the low-power wiring (e.g., alarm system, whole-house audio, HT, etc.). They want to charge an arm-and-a-leg for their HT setup. I am having them put in the wiring for the Front L&R speakers and the in-ceiling rears. Should I also have them pre-wire an additional set of surrounds for 7.1, or is it not necessary?
3) Anything else you think I should get/ask for before the dry-wall goes in?
Thanks...
