college home theater pictures (1 Viewer)

[Brian Dobbs]

Hi all, my roommate just bought a new Pioneer 5.1 receiver, so we decided to rearrange our college dorm living room. I just wanted to share some pics with you all. Tell me what you think.
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~bdobbs1/TEMP/
We are using the TV's speakers as our center channel. Our components are as follows...
Pioneer VSX - 710s 5.1 receiver
Sony STRDE135 stereo receiver (to power the subs)
Zenith 5 disc changer (CDR, CDRW, mp3)
Magnavox 46" projection TV
thanks

 

[CalvinC]

Looks great! Hope it doesn't keep you from studying!

 

[Brian Kleinke]

Is that a pair of woofers under the couch?!?! You guys must have a decent size dorm room... since I don't see any beds in there.
Calvin,
HTs in dorms are great for studying, IMO anyway.... I used to put movies in while I did my HW, great distractions when you got mad at that annoying math problem.
Nothing beats being down with school and moving out of those tiny dorms ;-)
Brian

 

[Jeff Bamberger]

Ok, so how many noise complaints have you gotten from your neighbors??????

Seriously, though, it looks like you have a nice set-up for what appears to be a small room.

Man in my day I was psyched to have a receiver and CD player in my dorm room......

 

[Brian Dobbs]

hey folks, thanks for your replies. In fact, that is a center living room that I share with my roommate and 2 other suitemates (who I call my roommates anyway). Our dorm is only a few years old, so everything is bigger and newer. The pair of subs under the couch and the 2 cabinets to either side of the TV (all blue) I made with my dad. They all have a 12" subs. The Sony stereo receiver is supplying the power for those.

Actually, the girls directly upstairs have called and/or stopped by our room quite a few times and complained. They not only hear the bass, but they said they could feel it! They said that they got migraines, but I was like, YES! I have the POWER!! I felt like He-Man for a moment. Although nothing official has been done to restrain our loudness, we don't play anything loud once it gets really late.

 

[Neil Joseph]

Did you by chance upload the backup html file (eg index.bak) by mistake??? Just wondering.

Is that last pic your sub/bass shaker?

 

[Brian Dobbs]

I just uploaded my pictures to my webspace in my school account in a folder I created. The last picture is of the cabinet that holds 2 out of the 4 12" woofers used for the bass output from the 5.1 receiver. Call it whatever you want, but I can tell you it sure does shake everything, including the girls upstairs!

 

[Brian Dobbs]

One last pic of the under the couch sub cabinet.
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~bdobbs1/TEMP/BIG%20SUB.jpg

 

[Scott Hayes]

I have been harping about this for a long time but it works, place your subs on a concrete slab, you can get a 16"x16"x2" slab from Home depot for 2$. This should stop the bass from getting to your neighbors. Worked very well for me. Throw a keg party now and then too. That will keep them happy.