College Budget Setup

[hizzaah]

Decided to finally post up a few pics of my dorm room setup. Not near as fancy as some of the other systems, but I'm happy with it for now Sorry for the iPhone pics!











The rears aren't perfectly placed, and my room's a bit messy atm so they aren't shown lol. The styrofoam under the sub made a huge difference! Not only did it keep the dishes in the kitchen cabinets below from rattling, but the sub sounds cleaner imo.. I have to keep the sub under the desk and the output knob at ~1/3 with my fridge and bed in its path so my neighbor behind me doesn't get pissy. First thing to be replaced will be the cruddy BRP.

Thanks to everyone who gave me advise in picking the system and in placement! Moving to a new place in June so I'll post updated pics then..

[afterlife2]

That is a nice setup. I like the dish/cement bricks table. Never seen the foam under the woofer thing till yesterday when someone posted a pic of their setup.

[hizzaah]

The black finished board was actually a shelf from Home Depot lol. It had a 4" scratch on one side so it was like $5. The bricks we're a few more bucks and measure out perfectly to squeeze in the receiver and cooling fan when I stacked two together. My gf was pretty annoyed as I spent like half an hour measuring bricks in the gardening section lol. Not a bad way to spend $10

I wanted to lift my 360 off my BRP and I had some spare plastic bowls and a wire shelf from an old mini fridge. Fit perfectly

Someone mentioned using styrofoam under the sub in place of like a Gramma. Didn't have money for a Gramma so I taped a few pieces of the system packaging together..

[fuzz092888]

Haha very nice, reminds me of living in a dorm freshman year and having basically a tree stump holding my tv and the center speaker perched precariously on top of it. Not to mention some pretty creative side and surround speaker placement due to the roommate and restrictions. Overall a much nicer setup than I had.

[hizzaah]

I was able to save up some of my birthday/Christmas and loan money to buy the TV. There isn't a lot in the way of tv stores near campus so I spent a few hours driving back and forth between Walmart and Target, taking notes and pickures of the tvs in my budget lol. I almost bought one at Walmart, but decided to make one last run by Target and I saw this guy being demoed on an end cap ~10 isles from the electronics lol. Was on sale and got the last one in stock

BRP was the nicest one they had at Walmart on that particular day. Never again lol. Thing started freezing randomly after ~4 months and Sony insisted that I just update the firmware. I put up with it because it didn't happen often. Now that it's out of warranty it drops signal to the receiver, displays distorted picture/color on occasion and makes obnoxious whirring noises..

[afterlife2]

Damn I had to look at this: DIY Subwoofer Risers - Blu-ray Forum
Some cool cheap alternatives there.
Look!!! http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.ph...postcount=1562

[fuzz092888]

Well thats always a good time, I got a cheap tv for college for my birthday for college freshman year. Then saved for 2 and a half years when the stars aligned and I found a sale on a 46" panasonic plasma. Haven't regretted all the beer I couldn't afford ever since. That panny was more than worth it.

[hizzaah]

I recall checking that thread out too.. I was planning a materials list, then someone mentioned the styrofoam. Thought I'd go ahead and try it out before spending any money.. Didn't see a reason to pay for materials when this worked well enough.

[timoteo]

Fun college setup!! Thanks for sharing!!

[hizzaah]

I know it doesn't look like it from the pic of the sub, but I actually spent a really long time organizing the wires, power bricks and surge protectors. Split loom, velcro, command strips, the whole nine yards. I had to leave those wires behind the sub like that so I could pull the desk out without pulling on any of the wires.

And the towel you see hanging down in the back in one of a series of them placed strategically to catch the high speakers invade the command hooks holding them fail..