New House!!!
Hell my offer was accepted on the new house today, so I've got a new area to work with!
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The living room upstairs is much smaller than any HT room I've ever had so far, so my pro audio stuff is WAY overkill for it, in fact it likely won't physically fit.
Here's the equipment I currently own, and what my first thoughts are for what to do.
New house rooms:
- Living room is smaller... 18'6" x 12', and on the TV wall there is a door on the right side (see pics)
- Shop: 16' x 48', will probably build a sauna in one corner, car and jetski take up 1/4 of it, LOTS of room for other stuff
- basement: unfinished at the moment, the area thats worth finishing is
about 14' x 30'
Equipment (power and speakers):
Yamaha RX-V1500
Behringer A500 (x2)
Denon POA-5200
Yamaha S115V club series mains (2)
Yamaha S15e club mains (2)
Yamaha SW118 club subwoofers (2)
Yamaha S55 nearfield monitors (2)
Yamaha towers (w/dual 8" woofers)
JVC older tower speakers
This is what I'm thinking and I'm open to options here, I'm working with a low budget at the moment, so maybe selling/trading some of my stuff would make it worth while.
Living Room:
I don't currently have a display anymore, sold my projector and screen, and that's fine because the living room isn't really big enough for one. Would like a ~58" plasma but may wait. I want to run dual monitors off my receiver so that I can eventually use the PS3 as my home computer, so I'm thinking about buying a good 32" TV now, and using it in the living room until I can afford a nice big plasma.
The only speakers that would fit here are the towers with the 8" woofers, and I'm not convinced they're great quality. I may sell some stuff and buy a decent set of 5 speakers, and a sub.
Shop:
This thing is big as hell... (~750 sq ft) and it's clean, so I'd be willing to put my big Yamaha club speakers out here, but I don't see the need for the 18" subs anymore. So I'll run a zone 3 out to the Behringer amps going into the S115V's and the S15e's.
The RX-V1500 will control the volume on the pre-outs to the amps.
Other:
I don't want to get rid of the S55 nearfield monitors, and may even pick up more to use in the living room, but if I don't, I'd setup a zone 2 in my computer room, run the powered zone 2 outs into the S55s.
So, to make a long story....uhhhh.....not any longer... I could sell:
the JVC's (next to nothing)
the Yamaha dual 8" towers (maybe $100)
the Denon POA-5200 (???)
the Yamaha SW118s (????)
maybe the Yamaha S15e's (????)
Then use those funds to pay for a set of 5 speakers and a sub for the living room. You guys think I could get a decent 5.1 set for whatever I could get for the rest of my stuff (guessing $1000-1200 total)???
Of course all of this would be thrown out the winder if I finished the basement and got myself a good 14' x 30' HT room... then the pro stuff stays front and centre.
