My simple system

[MarkNiceOne]

I like both vintage and new, respecting the various music tastes require different equipment.

My music taste for 40 years has and forever will be rather narrow.

Metal and Hard Rock only. Think Black Sabbath, Motörhead, and Megadeth as my type.

Collecting live concert DVDs but don't watch movies. No Sirus, no iPod, no Blu-Ray (few of my concerts will ever have that format), don't do FM radio.

Do have 600 music CDs and 150 live concert DVDs to pick from in my narrow music taste.

Goal with the DVD or CD is to be at a concert of my type, the ones where a guitarist hits a cord and you're close enough not only hear it, but "feel" his Marshall stack in your chest.

So in the living room's system it's a:
Kenwood receiver
Kenwood 5 CD carousel CD player
ADC 20 band equalizer
Sony 42 inch HD TV

My primary seat is 7 feet centered from the TV

Keeping in mind my music taste is Metal (and obviously live alone), on either side of the TV I have these. My speaker company favorite is Cerwin Vega ("The LOUDspeaker Company")

Cerwin Vega
U-321 (HED)- 101db efficient
AT-12- 97db efficient

Still deciding on the solutions (various opinions kindly offered here but none agree with each other) as how to best run 3 speaker pairs so I can add my D-7s to the onslaught.

 

[its phillip]

More pictures of the cat!

 

[MarkNiceOne]

King Ralph

 

[jp_over]

Very nice; those brands bring back memories!

Not sure if you were asking for recommendations or simply showing off your cool stuff.

 

[digicidal]

Still deciding on the solutions (various opinions kindly offered here but none agree with each other) as how to best run 3 speaker pairs so I can add my D-7s to the onslaught.

Well, I guess it's pretty easy - but it will sound like crap - just get a good 6 channel amp and hook them all up and run in "Party Mode"...

That being said... I don't even know why you're running two pairs in the same room - unless it's to compare them to each other. Anything more than that is potentially ruining the volume/dynamics of the other pair by potentially cancelling out some of the sound at least if they're not perfectly phase-aligned (which I would find hard to believe at best).

That being said - we've got the same taste in music - well I like many different types... but classic metal has always been about Sabbath, Motorhead, Megadeth and Testament for me too... with a decent smattering of more modern bands like Tool, Obituary, Kyuss and Clutch.

I'm sure you have already but I'd even guess that you'd get much higher SPLs at your chair with the HED's alone that with both pairs going at once.