Take your time, beat the bushes and see what kind of system you can build.

Actually if you look at the "show us your gear" thread you wil see the original setup using the allthread racks to match the coffe table and end tables.

I love the sound. The subs give the Martin Logans the bottom end they really need. The Parasound preamp allows me to switch modes to get stereo direct for music listening, then back to THX for movies.
 
Jeepers, I always get too anxious to get a rack slapped together, if it's level I'm ready. Finishing? Can't do it, once it's glued & screwed there's gear on it! Super respect for y'all that take the time to do it nice.
My HT system is decent for me. Pioneer Elite VSX-99 controls the thing. I use my Onkyo M-5160 amp to drive the center pair of Yamaha NS-A838's. Also use a pair of 838's for the mains, and a pair of NS-A638's for the surrounds. A pair of Dahlquist PDQ-1500's provide adequate! LFEs. A 27-in Samsung TV was the biggest we could get into my car, and we had to take it out of the carton at that.
I have four Kenwood amps (2 KM-206 & 2 KM-208) with 150x2 that I kinda thought would power a nice HT system. Would need a DD/AC-3 preamp. Dunno about HT stuff. Ideas?

pete
 
First off, I like to say to Wardsweb that that is one fine HT setup. Nice job.

Pete, I bought my HT setup around two years ago and it consists of an Onkyo TS-DX575 5.1 HT receiver and Paradigm speakers all around including the sub. I think the total cost was around $1700 back then. I must say, for my needs, it is one damn fine setup. Has DD/DTS and a 5ch stereo mode. Although it is not my primary music setup, it does a superb job of doing that also. When I was shopping, I wanted a nice combination of HT and music. This did the trick. Anyway, it's been two years and I'm sure the technology had gotten even better. Geez, I think they even have 7.1 systems now. Next up is a widescreen TV.

Take care.
 
man as nice as those subs are ...if you could hide them somewhere you'd really be able to showcase that rack and its components and free up a lot of square footage on your floor.

Very nice, very nice!
 
Actually they stand on end behind the ML CLS's in the corners of the room. They were only out for me to take a picture before placing them. I had just finished building them.
 
I have the beginnings of a vintage HT system. HT is not too important to me, I love watching movies in surround sound, but the GF always made me turn it down so that it wasn't even worth having on. But for the future I have bought a pair of EPI magnus A11's (need a refoam) to use as fronts and a pair of EPI magnus A10's to use as rears, when all my speakers are fixed and refoamed I will have two 10" woofers and two 12" woofers (rat shacks) to build a sub out of and then I just need something for a center. I plan on painting the EPI's black and replacing the brown grill cloth with black cloth to make them more modern looking and fit in to a living room setting a little better.
 

THOR - I have trouble finding friends who enjoy good volume in movies!

They will go to the big theatres in town to watch movies with good bass, loud volume... they will crank the sound when listening to music... but then I hire a DVD, and suddenly everything must be turned down? ehh??

Now I dont like music too loud, but a film - while not hurting your ears - should be loud enough to convey that an explosion.. is an explosion.
 
I like to feel a movie. I remember the first time my wife watched The Matrix with me at home. She commented during the lobby scene that her body was vibrating. I told her - now you know why I built this system. She likes it.
People always ask if I ever get any complaints from my neighbors. Answer no - they're either to old or to far away. :D
 
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I love it loud! all of it music and movies, when I went to see Spiderman recently it was in the DTS theater and they had the volume cranked soooo loud it was awesome. I even listen to the TV kinda loud, my GF likes loud music but she is contantly bitching at me to turn it down. So the only times I could use my old 5.1 sytem was when she was gone. I wanna get another up soon though because my digital cable is now broadcast in dolby 5.1. I did hook my VCR to the main system and watch Pearl Harbor using the CV's as a stereo source and man that was awesome those 15"ers pounding the floor really does a good job on the explosions :D They would make awsome mains for a HT setup but I wanna keep them "pure" for just a music system.
 
Thor....you can have your cake and eat it too ya know. It's possible to use the CVs for 5.1 and music. Put in a amp selector switch like I did and get the best of both words.
 
Ahh who knows what I'll do when the time comes but I am aways away from being able to do or change anything. My first priority is to refoam all the woofers I need to. Then I want amps to power my CV's and Altecs, Then I am sending all the woofers from my CV's to CV to be totally redone to as new condition (like BTS did) Somewhere in there I will bebuilding a new computer. So after I do all that I will look at the HT situation, and as to when all this happens depends on when I get a job and how much my salary is ;)
 
With young children, I just find I'm not getting much value out of my HT setup (wife: "the kids are in bed turn it down" :mad: ) ... loud subwoofer-enhanced explosions have a tendency to wake babies :D .

Anyway, that's the reason I have concentrated on my 2 ch setup for music, and have been getting into some vinyl recently. Someday I hope to be able to make good use of it again, but I haven't hired a DVD in 3 months, so for the moment it's on hold really ...
 
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