Just a quick update. I started from scratch, repositioned and angled every speaker, positioned the sub very carefully. I found that everything still didn't sound right. Turns out that my receiver has both a small/large speaker setting (which was correct), but hidden in the bowels of the advanced...
One other thing I'd mention (as I just made this mistake myself), get one that has an LCD display. This is the one I have here. Walmart just had it on sale for under $50. I had started with the 300, but if the out of the box settings weren't EXACTLY what you needed, there was no way to customize...
The more I'm reading through this and looking at other sources, the more I think I might need to take some time to tweak my existing setup before I decide what actually needs to be done.
Most of our videos are viewed from netflix (where obviously everything is very compressed). We do not have...
Thank you very much for your response. You've given me a lot to think about, but I don't think you've overwhelmed me :) Those energy speakers look like they would fit the bill nicely. I'd be willing to spend a bit more, or scour craigslist or whatever to find somebody that is getting rid of...
Hi folks, I thought my system was completely fine for my needs. Then I was at a friend's place who had a very nice setup (some higher end polk towers, a gigantic matching center channel, all in a very small room), and it got me thinking that I should look into updating mine. I currently have a...