College Home Theater

by eclipse911t on Opinions Please
My living room theater

Description

This has been a dramtic change from my old 2 channel system consisting of Totem Mani-2s and Pass Labs. It's a sad change of equipment but necessary. I am currently building a house and wanted a home theater. Purchasing a couple of Aleph 3's a pair of Totem Model 1's and a Model 1 Signature Center was strictly out of the question financially. I opted to go with a system that would give me all I wanted from a home theater and sacrifice the audio side of things knowing that when I graduate from college I can develope a dedicated 2 channel system.

Near future Plans:

1. Purchase a 34" Widescreen Directview HDTV (not sure what model) and give my 27" to my girlfriend.

2. Purchase a Marantz DV6400 (or something similar DV8400?) universal disc player with better audio and video than my junk Toshiba.

All comments are welcome.

Thanks,

Patrick
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    • Rotel RSP-976
    5.1 Pre/Pro with Component video switching, 5.1 in for DVD-Audio, but only one Bass Management setting @ 125Hz, so my whole system is running full range.
    • Samsung 27
    This set looks great for DVDs and is just big enough to fill my small room.
    • Rotel RB-993
    200x3 RMS @ 8 ohms. Balanced and Single ended inputs. No remote turn on input! This amp runs my front 3 speakers.
    • Parasound HCA-1000
    125x2RMS driving my surrounds.
    • Toshiba SD-4700
    DVD-Audio Progressive scan DVD player.
    • Paradigm Studio 20 v.3
    It has a 1
    • Paradigm Studio CC-570 v.3
    One of the bigger centers on the market with an over-under 1
    • Paradigm Studio ADP v.2
    These are a dipolar consisting of essentially 2 Studio 20s back to back.
    • Earthquake Supernova MKV-15P
    Polyurethane hard shell finish. 15
    • Audioquest Jaguar
    All analog connections up front use these excellent DBS cables from Audoiquest, they were left from my audiophile days and are great.
    • Audioquest Copperhead
    I use a 50' run to my surround amplifier. I recently purchased this cable on clearance from Audioadvisor.
    • Monster Cable Reference 2
    2m run to subwoofer using a Monster THX splitter.
    • Audioquest Granite
    6ft pr running tweeters of Studio 20s.
    • Audioquest CV-6 DBS
    6ft pr running mid/woofers of Studio 20s.
    • Audioquest CV-4
    More PSC (Perfect Surface Copper) Cables from Audioquest. I have a 6ft pr externally biwired on the CC-570
    • Monster Cable HTS 800
    Small "Stage One" Monster Power filtration/glorified power strip.

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I've seen the Sony XBR on many ocassions and it is amaqzing, the best you can do aside from CRT front projection in my opinion. It's got the blackest blacks, and all the trimmings. Unfortunately this set is way out of my range. I've actually moved onto looking for 30" widescreens due to cost. Since this is audiogon and not videogon though lets get back to Audio...

I recently added an Outlaw Audio ICBM-1. The greatest help to theater since the pre/pro replaced my Denon receiver.

Anymore audio advice.

Thanks guys for the input,
Patrick

eclipse911t

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System edited: I added some pictures today, finally. Thanks for the first feedback I've got. I'll look into some King Cobra for the sub, and definitely the Marantz, thanks. Patrick

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