Recent content by Scott Houchin

The nice receiver, plus replacing my bookshelf speakers with nice towers that blend into the room!

The Hunt for Red October

Chewbacca. No debate there.

I'm running out of inputs on my current system. Plus I'd love to have better sound.

Grand Torino

I would love to have this as incentive to get that basement home theater going. Need that kick in the pants to start work on it.

Bumblebee

I think I'm on the list, and I believe I know how I got on it. I have only purchased one things at BB, and that was a camcorder. However, when I purchased that, I signed up for the BB credit card (to get the no interest special). When the salesman made the push for the card, he indicated that...

Wire for both the 7.1 and 6.1 rear speakers. Running wire now is cheap and easy compared to snaking it later (especially if the walls will be insulated). On the back wall, you can coil up some extra wire and nail it to a stud, provided that you take very careful measurements as to where it is...

If you can't imagine your system sounding better, and you don't have much money, then why not just decide to be happy with what you're already happy with. This is a very subjective subject and you'll get lots of different opinions. The home depot wire is around $0.20 a foot.

I can't remember the name of the "on joist" ceiling grids, but I recently did my entire basement with it. Unfortunately, I have reservations about recommending it or ever using it again. - It is not as easy to put up as the brochure implies - If you have any pipes or wires hanging below the...

Here's a question about stands that I haven't seen yet. With the wooden type stands that have been discussed here and in the sand-filled thread, should I be physically attaching the speakers to the stands. I've got a 9 month old that's just getting mobile, and I'm worried about putting a speaker...

Yes Colin, I was actually refering to your statement, but I couldn't find the button to automatically quote you, and when I wrote my post the other two replies weren't there. I was planning on adding the rear center to my new system (while I can still get the good sale price from my local...

Are you saying that there's no value of a rear-center speaker for situations where the viewing position is right against the back wall? I'm in a similar situation, and my dealer indicated that it would still be valuable in 6.1 channel material.

I'm sure I have it set up correctly. The internal tones from the receiver all match up with individual speakers. On the THX setup (from Optivision?) on the T2 DVD, the on screen graphics show all of the surround speakers being output during that portion of the test, so I think things are being...