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jedirun's DIY Budget Home Theater/Listening Room System |
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| Last Update: July 06, 2005 at 05:32:10 | IP Address: 24.165.0.210 |
| Amplifier: | Onkyo TX-SR800 THX Select 7.1 Channel AV Receiver. |
| Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): | None |
| Speakers: | Center Chanel and Rear Surrounds: Madisound Vifa Studio DIY Kits. XT25TG30-04 1' dual concentric dome ring radiators, Vifa PL14WJ09 5.8' coated paper cone woofers, Rear mounted Seas 6.5' passive radiators. Fronts (2 channel music with subwoofer): DIY MTM's with VIFA PL18WO09-04 7' Woofers and XT25TG30-04 1' dual concentric dome ring radiators, series crossovers and rear mounted 8' passive radiators in 1 cubic foot box. Surrounds: Cambridge Soundworks Surround 5.1 Switchable Dipole/Bipole surrounds. All speakers are set to small and crossed over at 80 Hz with the subwoofer for movies and 60 Hz for multichannel music. Subwoofwer: DIY based on NHT-1259 and Keiga 200 watt amplifier in 3 cubic foot box with 1.5' of MDF around the entire enclosure and an additional 1.5' of oak and maple on top and sides. |
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| CD Player/DAC: | Pioneer DV-563a DVD Video/DVD-Audio/SACD/CD player with internal 192/24 DAC for multichannel music and Onkyo DAC for CD's. DAC: 192/24 with integer upsampling DAC in Onkyo TX-SR800 |
| Other Accessories/Room/Misc.: | |
| Speaker Cables/Interconnects: | Speaker Cables: DIY Carol Cable Cross Connect 4X12 Gauge with black techflex and heat shrink, terminated with AudioQuest Crimp-On silver spades. Digital Cables: Belden 1595a coaxial cable with Canary 75 ohm RCA's Subwoofer Cable: THX Certified Monster Subwoofer Cable. |
| Other (Power Conditioner, Racks etc.): | Tripp-Lite voltage regulator with isobar surge protection. Monster Power HTS-1000 filtered surge protector. Tripp-lite HT1500UPS Home theater uninteruptable power supply
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| Tweaks: | Not much; Focalpods under equipment. Ferrite rings on power cables, speaker cables and interconnects. Deflex panels in Subwoofer, and DIY front speakers. Beefed up version of the Audiotweaks.com DIY equipment rack. |
| Room Size (LxWxH): | 13 x 10 x 8 |
| Room Comments/Treatments: | Sheet rock walls with one window. Curtains and blinds in front of window and large 6'6'X9'9' turkish rug on right wall. Carpeted floors. Reclining leather loveseat in listening position. loaded bookshelves in 3 corners of the room and closet with clothes and electronic equipment including projector, and CD's in rear of room. No dedicated room treatments. |
| Music Preferences and Comments: | |
| Music Used (Genre/Selections): | Classical/Blues/Hard Rock/Metal/Jazz. |
| System Goals/Comments: | Have a decent listening experience while staying out of debt and keeping my wife from going crazy. Future upgrades include: Room treatments, Power amp or amps (looking at outlaw audio), and possibly active line level crossovers with bi-amped DIY speakers behind an acoustically transparent projector screen. I will also probably purchase or make base traps, absorbers and diffusers. |
| System Strengths: | Excellent imaging, clean sound, deep bass extension, cheap. |
| System Weaknesses: | Need room treatments, bass boomy at times, but far improved over my last listening room that had cement walls and no carpet. |
| Video/HT System: Integrated | |
| TV/Projector: | Dell 4100MP XGA/HDTV DLP Front Projector. Projected onto $50 screen material purchased on ebay with a DIY frame permanently mounted on the wall. Matte White, Gain: 1.1 |
| Processor/Receiver/Amplifiers: | Onkyo TX-SR800 THX Select 7.1 Channel AV Receiver. Outlaw ICBM Bass Manager between 563a and receiver. |
| Speakers (Center, Surrounds, Sub): | Center Chanel and Rear Surrounds: Madisound Vifa Studio DIY Kits. XT25TG30-04 1' dual concentric dome ring radiators, Vifa PL14WJ09 5.8' coated paper cone woofers, Rear mounted Seas 6.5' passive radiators. Fronts: DIY MTM's with VIFA PL18WO09-04 7' Woofers and XT25TG30-04 1' dual concentric dome ring radiators, series crossovers and rear mounted 8' passive radiators in 1 cubic foot box. Surrounds: Cambridge Soundworks Surround 5.1 Switchable Dipole/Bipole surrounds. All speakers are set to small and crossed over at 80 Hz with the subwoofer. Subwoofwer: DIY based on NHT-1259 and Keiga 200 watt amplifier in 3 cubic foot box with 1.5' of MDF around the entire enclosure and an additional 1.5' of oak and maple on top and sides. |
| Sources (DVD/VCR): | Pioneer DV-563a Progressive scan DVD Player connected to the analog portion of the M1-DA (DVI-I) input of the projector with component video adapter.
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| Other HT Gear: | Onkyo CHAD RF remote, X-10 lighting control with X-10 IR commander run off of CHAD. Playstation 2, connected with digital optical cable and component video. Radio Shack Analog Sound Level Meter. Calibrated system with Digital Video Essentials DVD. |
| Comments on HT System: | It looks and sounds great, but it will improve once I add room treatments.
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| Other Interests/Hobbies/Occupation: | Occupation: United States Navy Dive Medical Officer(Physician). Hobbies: CrossFit, Rock/Metal/Blues Guitar. |
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