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I am looking at replacing my Sony 46" set. I am sitting 7.5' from my screen now, but would be around 11-12'. from the projection screen (screen would be around 96"). My ceiling is around 7'. My room is roughly 20' long. I am thinking I would need the projector around 3-4' behind me. How is...

Here is my dilemma. I currently own a 46" RPTV and sit 7.5' away. I had to get something that "small" while in my last house. I have since moved and I am in a larger dedicated room with complete light control. While this set still looks good, I want MORE of the HT experiece and I want to go...

I know you are supposed to try and keep your tweeters at or near ear height/height of your mains. I am on top of my 46" RPTV (on stand). It is fine for me now. Question is, how high is too high? I am looking at picking up an LCD or DLP in the 60-62" range and sitting about 8' away. That...

A friend of mine just got a 50" Samsung DLP delivered to his house. He was all set up, and asked me to come over with Avia to tweak it (I do the tweaks on my buddies' gear). I went over there, turned the lights down...and BOOM! I got hit with train headlights. That set is BRIGHT at standard...

I made some homemade wall treatments out of foam, cotton batting, wood and a canvas type cloth (beige/natural). Since filling out the room with them, my darker walls are lighter...and the side walls are now a little refelctive from my RPTV. Any idea if black speaker cloth would be very...

Searched but couldn't quite find an answer. I have my surrounds essentially in a null posisiton (beside me...perhaps back 6 inches or so). Unfortunately, with my room placement, I can't get a fantastic front stereo image where my seating is. If I move my seating forward, my soundstage improves...

I am always tweaking my system and moving speakers around looking for the best configuration. Recently, I have started making my own accoustic panels and setting them up around the room. I have drawn a diagram of my room, and I have shown the panels in grey. The ones near my fronts are 2x4...

I have had my HD receiver for about 10 days now. I have been blown away by HD content for the most part. I am absolutely in love with Monday Night Football...it is unbelievable quality. Coming off watching a game of MNF last night, I was wondering if the poor looking HD broadcast on Fox was...

My room is in the basement. I have it sealed and insulated very well (sound insulation). I have also installed a solid core door. I have one vent leading into the room, and no return. The room is 19x12. When I have a few people in the room for more than an hour, it gets a little stuffy. The...

What would you think a good seating config for a theater this size is? I sit about 8-9 feet away from my 46" set and have only one sofa in there now. Any suggestions about adding another chair? I don't want to add another seat and throw my acoustics off (ie. heavy sound to one side), but if I...

I am insulating my basement ceiling this week for my HT, and I am almost done (except around pipes and hvac). I am not sure how to do this as a pipe almost fills the entire cavity of the joist (at least on one side). Do you just fill the other side? Doesn't leaving the pipe bare allow sound to...

I am putting insulation in my ceiling joists. They are 16" on center. I have purchased insulation that is about 4" high...while my joist is 9.5" deep. That means my insulation will not fill the entire joist cavity. Should I be doubling it up to fill the hole left in the relatively empty stud...

I just moved into an old/new house (40 yrs). I tore out the carpets and am getting hardwoods installed. My gear is out of the house except for my RPTV. In the kitchen ceramic tile is being pounded out right as I type. There is a ton of dust all over the house (specifically in the basement where...

I own a Sony 46" HDTV. I just moved houses and in packing up the set, the shelf that housed the center channel slipped off and banged into the back of the set. The speaker was not on the shelf, and the shelf just slipped off and hit the back of the set (glanced). I turned the set on and...

I am moving into a new place with a drywalled basement. The ceiling is open. I want to stuff with insulation and then drywall. Caulk the screws and seams. Resilient channel and then drywall again...and then tape, mud, sand and prime/paint. The room is about 12 x 20. If I have a friend helping...

I am moving in a couple weeks to a 35 year old 2-storey home. I am putting my HT in one part of the basement (12x20). I am putting a door up (with a lock...to keep the little ones out when unsupervised). The basement is "mostly" finished. The ceiling however, is open. When we move in, I am...

I have just hooked a Feedback Destroyer Pro into my chain, and I am now flattening out my sub response (with a slight house curve). Here is my question: I have JM Lab Cobalt 816s as my mains. They play down to 40-50 Hz range. My receiver is set to small mains + sub. My crossover occurs at 80...

To begin with, I am not really a subwoofer tweaker. I had set my sub a year ago with the Avia disc to match my other channels (albeit a tad fatter), and it has stayed there. Now recently I got the Behinger Feedback Destyroyer Pro from a local shop and I have tried putting it in my system as a...

Hey there - I have currently formatted my father's machine and have done a "slight" upgrade for him. I have shown him Windows Media Player 9 and all its functions, and now he is in love. I just put in a 160 GB HD, and upgraded his Celeron 500 to 800+ MB of SDRAM. I have also formatted his...

Currently, my home theater is in the basement of a two-storey home. I havne't done "anything" of significance to quiet the theater from the rest of the house, but since my house is old (75 years), my wife and son cannot hear anything when I am watching movies at near reference levels (-10 dB)...

I own a Sony KP-46WT510 and an Onkyo DV-SP800 player. I have read on the DVD Benchmark tests that my player is not great on deinterlacing. It suffers from the chroma bug as seen here. When I switch my player to interlaced, the error disappears. So, as it stands, my TV exceeds my DVD player in...

I own a Sony KP46WT510. I was watching the Two Towers Special Edition, and I noticed almost where the black letterbox and the image meet, there is a faint line that runs horizontally across the screen (almost looks like a mirror reflection line). The line was very faint, and only showed itself...

I just had my TV price refunded by the manufacturer. I have since purchased another set and stand. This set is now about 5-6" higher than my other set. I still have my center channel tilted downwards towards my listening position, but panning across the screen doesn't seem as seamless as it was...

I just got a Sony 46" tabletop set. I bought the stand that comes with it as well (11" high). The set is now roughly 50" high. The picture is excellent BTW. What I am trying to figure out is if the screen is too high to go beside my tower speakers. The tweeter on my tower is just a hair below...

Does anyone own it or has anyone done extensive viewing/testing on it? Any obvious problems I should be aware of? Thanks.

As I have posted before, I am getting a refund on an almost 2-year old Toshiba set (for having raster ringing...still under extended warranty). I am a little weary of Toshiba for potentially having the problem still, but I haven't seen it on the set mentioned on the showroom floor where I have...

As I have digital cable, and NOT HD yet, my concern is which one of these sets will look the best in my current environment. I believe they will all look good (to varying degrees) in HD and in 480p. But my question is more concerned with which one will look best in non-DVD scenarios. Out of...

Here is the scenario. I bought a Toshiba 42H80 two years ago. I have had a raster ringing problem for the last two years. I have had the tech come out and look, and there was nothing that could be done to solve the problem. I knew of the fact that Toshiba would refund your purchase if you pushed...

I am looking at picking up a small 4x3 set for my bedroom. Does the 16x9 mode only work with anamorphic DVDs? Can it work with an HDTV signal as well? I am assuming you will need to set the DVD player as being set up on a 16x9 set. As I don't have and HD signal yet, I do not know if the HD...

On SACD and progressive scan video? Specifically up against the Pioneer DV-47a if anyone has any experience of the two of them. Thanks.