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The stairs go down to the right--when you get to the bottom of the stairs, there is a doorway to the left, and the front-left speaker is right in front of you. There is a wall on both sides of the stairway, so you aren't in the room until you are all the way down. It's a fireplace on the...

I am awaiting my mail-ordered speakers and AVR for my brand-new 7.2 surround system. For your reference, I purchased the following: Yama RX-V773WA 7.2-Channel AVR (2) Klipsch RF-52 II Floorstanding Speakers (1) Klipsch RC-52 II Center Channel Speaker (2) Klipsch RS-42 II Surround...

I'm with you on Option 5--that is one of my deciding factors for going with Yamaha. The 773 has 9 powered outputs, only 7 of which you can use at a time. It's supposed to be easy to switch 6 and 7 to zone B. You'll notice in front of the bar I'm putting a second TV. That is signaled by the 773's...

If I went with option three, is the problem that I couldn't adjust the balance between 4 and 5 enough to compensate for the difference in distance? Or is it just too unsymetrical to work? It seems to me that since these speakers are mainly for ambiant sound, there can be a lot more flexibility...

Here is an illustration of the third choice to which I'm leaning: This has the following things going for it: all of the speakers are at the correct angles all of the speakers have a direct line of sight to the viewer none of the speakers are in the way none of the speakers are too...

To make sure I understand you, you are suggesting I use bookshelf speakers as speakers SL/SR (i.e. 4/5), and place them underneath the suffit (my option 2), but sideways so that they'll fit better. That helps a little, but not enough--my head almost brushes the ceiling without anything there.

Sam, I have the following speakers: (2) RF-52 II Floorstanding Speakers (1) RC-52 II Center Channel Speaker (2) RS-42 II Surround Speakers (2) SW-110 Subwoofers (2) RB-51 II Bookshelf Speakers [/list] Klipsch has the default setup as the bookshelf speakers at the rear, and the...

Jason, Thanks, I'm leaning towards Option 3 as well.

I'm finishing a basement, and am installing speaker wire in the walls. I won't be able to test my surround sound until after the walls are installed, so I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this on paper. The room is shaped like a long rectangle (let’s call it 35 by 20), and the cinema is...

I guessed 700 watts by mutiplying 100 watts per channel by 7. Is the idea that while it could do 100 watts per channel at any time, it doesn't have enough power to pump 100 watts to every channel simultaneously? I looked in the on-line manual for this info and couldn't find anything.

Sam, Thanks for the suggestion--I think I will go ahead and wire both. Jason, That is a good way of looking at it--my basement is similar to yours--I have more room for the back speakers than high speakers, so 7.2 is what I'm going for. In a moment of weakness, I decided to go ahead and get the...

Jason, Thanks for the clarification. That being the case, DPL IIz is just an industry standard of doing something similar to what Yamaha does with their "Presence", right? If you were in my shoes, would you wire the basement for Presence or for 7.1?

Height and width "exist", sure. But don't you need DPL IIz to access the height and width encoded in a movie? My receiver doesn't have DPL IIz, and my understanding is that "presence" speakers are a uniquely Yamaha thing, where the system uses its own algorithims to figure out what to send to...

Hi David, Excellent point on the subwoofer. The link you provided doesn't work--what's your suggestion for a sub?

Hi Sam, I think I have room for a "proper" 7.1. The room is about 18 x 30. The TV is on one side of the long end. The biggest arcitectural challenge is that the ceiling drops about 8 inches for a 2-foot-wide strip (for heating conduits), right down the center of the room--parallel to the TV. I'm...

I am in the process of finishing a basement and installing a new home theater system. The drywall is scheduled to go up next week, so I need to make some final decisions about how this should be wired. I also need to make a final decision on the hardware. Here is what is in my shopping cart: is...