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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Kate on 25 January 2014, 21:29:46
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Bought a new home cinema amp and it sounds great.
Been watching wolf of wall street, gravity, captain phillips, lone survivor etc and it sounds great.
Anyone else use home cinema sound systems?
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I have a Bose solo and that is awesome for such a indiscreet (sp) box. 8)
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I use an Onkyo amp and cambridge powered sub for my surround system. Sounds pretty good. Be even better when I site the speakers after just moved the living room round!! ::)
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Long term Yamaha fan here :y
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Onkyo - they are the expensive ones aren't they?
Never used a Yamaha before - what are they like?
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Onkyo - they are the expensive ones aren't they?
Never used a Yamaha before - what are they like?
Excellent ........... They have been around for a while and keep updating. Mine is an AZ2 which I've had for a few years now ....
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Expensive is difficult to decide really. It took me almost a year to save for my unit, which for me is expensive. Cost me 300 pounds, but to others is probably loose change.
Saving up for maintenance parts for my car is a mountain and a half for me to climb!!
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I have an Arcam AV9 (decoder & processor) and Arcam P7 (amplifier) - they'd have been about £5k each, new.. I definitely didn't buy them new! ;D Along with a big set of Monitor Audio floor standing speakers.
They do sound a lot better than my old Harman Kardon AV amp & Kef speakers when cranked up, but they're less suited to general viewing, I think. The HK & Kefs work at low volume whereas these really need driving hard to get the best out of them. Good job it's a detached house, really!
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Gravity? Captain Philips? Ooh you are naughty. ;)
Sony Amp. 5.1 DD surround set up with Eltax speakers and sub. Got to have the surround sound element IMO. Adds a whole new dimension to movies.
4k tv next. So a while yet. ;D
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Ive got a phillips home cinema system thats 5 yrs old,cant fault it,dvds sound amazing and great effects.
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Mine was 99p off ebay but it sounds great.
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Mine was 99p off ebay but it sounds great.
Er, what was Kate?
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Mine was 99p off ebay but it sounds great.
Er, what was Kate?
My surround sound amp. No-one else bid.
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I've got the older version of this:
http://www.orbitsound.com/product.asp?id=7 (http://www.orbitsound.com/product.asp?id=7)
I did not want the fuss of wires going everywhere, just enough kick to lift computer games and good films.
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I've got the older version of this:
http://www.orbitsound.com/product.asp?id=7 (http://www.orbitsound.com/product.asp?id=7)
I did not want the fuss of wires going everywhere, just enough kick to lift computer games and good films.
Looks good. How does it sound?
I've got lots of meters of speaker cable around the living which cost much more that the amp! ;D
Does anyone use a 7.1 system?
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Sounds good enough for me, decent enough for computer games and films.
Not as good as a full surround, but that is a compromise due to the size of the unit and lack of physical speakers behind you.
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Had a yamaha unit for years but never actually wired it up for its full potential.
Not sure whether its classed as a 6.1 (4.2.1) or 8.1 (6.2.1) or something else. :-\
Has 4 main speakers but also provision to set up as Front A + B/Rear Surround + front and rear centres with Sub.
yamaha rx-640rds
Also bought a panasonic bluray 5.1 am rather impressed with that apart from the sub is far too powerfull even on low volume (Could do with its own volume setting) tried all options with the settings and EQ still sounds good with the sub disconted though ::)
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Just run my hard drive/DVD unit through my Kenwood amp and AR speakers, it does for me anyway. :y
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Everything Sony here, always been superb.
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I've got a Sony STR-DB798 AMP with some Wharfedale 9.6's bi-wired into it, just some small speakers for the back although I mostly prefer to listen to it in stereo just with the 9.6's
No need for a Sub with them I've found.
I run everything through a media PC so it's just connected up with an optical cable.
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I have a set of KEF's in a 6.1 setup following an exectutive decision to pension my large missions off during a lounge redecoration.
These are connected to a heavily modified Sony amp.
Can fault the speakers though, very pelased with them (but not as good as the big boxes they replaced)
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I have a set of KEF's in a 6.1 setup following an exectutive decision to pension my large missions off during a lounge redecoration.
These are connected to a heavily modified Sony amp.
Can fault the speakers though, very pelased with them (but not as good as the big boxes they replaced)
Tell us more .................
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Running a Yamaha 6.1 amp
Various pairs of smallish Mission speakers all round with a baby Eltax sub behind the sofa to fill out the bass.
My daddy Missions (M74's) / Cyrus 2 amp are used just for music :-*
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Onkyo - they are the expensive ones aren't they?
Never used a Yamaha before - what are they like?
I got the yokoono version, bit screeching and quite irritating to be honest ;) ;D
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Arcam AVR plus one of these:
http://www.bowers-wilkins.co.uk/Speakers/Theatre_Solutions/Mini_Theatre/MT-60D.html (http://www.bowers-wilkins.co.uk/Speakers/Theatre_Solutions/Mini_Theatre/MT-60D.html)
:y
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Wow some impressive kit around. :y
Does anyone have any favourite movie audio? I always liked the t rex sounds in Jurassic Park.
The THX sound test thingy always sounds good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLWacgcUMKw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLWacgcUMKw)
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I have a set of KEF's in a 6.1 setup following an exectutive decision to pension my large missions off during a lounge redecoration.
These are connected to a heavily modified Sony amp.
Can fault the speakers though, very pelased with them (but not as good as the big boxes they replaced)
Tell us more .................
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Some re-work to the power supply stage (better quality and slightly higher capacity smoothing caps plus some additional lower value casp to improve the HF response, slightly faster rec diodes and associated parralel snubber networks) slight mod to the power stage feedback. All gives a better attack on the Bass and a much cleaner HF
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I have a set of KEF's in a 6.1 setup following an exectutive decision to pension my large missions off during a lounge redecoration.
These are connected to a heavily modified Sony amp.
Can fault the speakers though, very pelased with them (but not as good as the big boxes they replaced)
Tell us more .................
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Some re-work to the power supply stage (better quality and slightly higher capacity smoothing caps plus some additional lower value casp to improve the HF response, slightly faster rec diodes and associated parralel snubber networks) slight mod to the power stage feedback. All gives a better attack on the Bass and a much cleaner HF
I must admit I'd assumed any mods would be to the power supply - one area that manufacturers frequently cut costs ...........
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Wow some impressive kit around. :y
Does anyone have any favourite movie audio? I always liked the t rex sounds in Jurassic Park.
The THX sound test thingy always sounds good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLWacgcUMKw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLWacgcUMKw)
Purely on sound, I love;
the gun fight scene in Heat
Tron 2
Apocalypse now
Main soundtrack in Gladiator
Crow
Mamma Mia - The Wedding Scene
Saving private Ryan
Forza Motorsport through the forest at the Nurburgring
No girly titles there though. :-\
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Quality ;D
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Wow some impressive kit around. :y
Does anyone have any favourite movie audio? I always liked the t rex sounds in Jurassic Park.
The THX sound test thingy always sounds good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLWacgcUMKw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLWacgcUMKw)
Purely on sound, I love;
the gun fight scene in Heat
Tron 2
Apocalypse now
Main soundtrack in Gladiator
Crow
Mamma Mia - The Wedding Scene
Saving private Ryan
Forza Motorsport through the forest at the Nurburgring
No girly titles there though. :-\
Big Abba fan eh? ;D
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Ooh yeah. Love it. ;D