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Are you talking about doing a bookcase/built in type of unit?

Glad you found some. Hope it works out well for you.

To kill many birds with one stone.... To help stop transmission requires mass and more mass. You don't have a lot of space to decouple anything so mass is your best friend. Stuff the space above the gypsum with fiberglass or rockwool and put up a DOUBLE layer of drywall. The extra mass and...

While you could certainly upgrade the sound by upgrading components, that doesn't appear to be the real question. You seem to think that you can't get good sound in a shallow room. Thats just not so. Personally, the biggest change for the $ you can make is to properly treat the room itself...

Exactly. Even if both have excellent grounds, there can be a difference in ground potential between the 2 of them. The fact that when your DirecTV is on you get it and when it's off you don't points solidly to it IMO. Where and how is the satellite system grounded? Have you tried tying a...

You have a ground loop caused by a differential in ground between your audio system, your lighting, and your video system. The most likely culprit is the video system. Check the grounding of the cable coming into your home. It's likely got a poor ground that's being exposed.

I'd at a minimum get some decent video cables. You don't need to go nuts but video and digital audio are a bit more demanding. You can stop by Rat Shack and pick up the AR cables or you can order them from someplace like BlueJeansCables.com (forum sponsor by the way). They make great stuff using...

Have you tried bypassing the receiver for the video signal and going directly to the TV from the cable box? The receiver may be compounding the problem on that channel by processing the HD video and delaying it just a tad. Since it's already HD, it shouldn't really be doing much unless it will...

Pretty much any receiver that has zone 2 capabilities should be able to send ANY source out through that zone.

1. Did he check levels with a meter or just guess by ear? 2. A solid wall on one side and a big open arch on the other will absolutely cause a perceived difference in volume. One side is getting a lot of early reflections and reinforcement. The other side is not.

Agreed. NEVER plug in a high power device like that into a switched or unswitched outlet on the back of another piece. If you MUST plug a piece of equipment into it, make it something like a tuner, CD Player, etc. - something relatively low power.

It's not 'normal' to use 2 receivers. Generally, one would use an external multichannel amp for all the channels so you would not have the imbalance. What you likely have is a mismatch between the input sensitivity of the Pioneer amp section and the NAD amp section. I would suggest trying to...