Oh, wait, you got the 1312?
That's too bad. That has no sort of calibration at all.
How much did you pay for it and where did you get it?
150$ from Pauls TV. Free shipping.
But then right after it arrived I checked Accessories4Less and they had it for 120$
Ah, but no one linked me to that and I thought 150$ was already a great deal.
I guess I'll just have to calibrate it manually or so, you know. I adjusted the distance already and set to "Large", no center, no Surround back, and no Subwoofer.
Sounds alot like my TV's speakers right now. Maybe due to no Subwoofer or the cheap Speaker Cable I uswed...got to wait til the good stuff comes in monday.
Sometimes they sound pretty nice though. Maybe just got to burn them in or let my ears adjust to them.
It was like this when I got a sound card for my PC, didn't notice a difference, but two years later when it broke, the onboard sound for my PC sounded horrible, when I used to have no issues with it, it sounded washed out, distorted and hard to make out details. Sound card got fixed, put it back in, and life was good again.
Still, going directly from the TV Speakers to these, a few friends I asked told me they couldn't hear the difference and thought they weren't installed yet.
Maybe Dynamic compression would help, I use that feature on my PC, I like it as it allows me to hear the tiny sounds.
For example, in Broken Blade, Episode 1, it has 5.1 DTS. On my PC, I can hear quite a few sounds that I don't on these speakers on my TV.
Weirdly enough, the box and websites state it has 75 watts per channel, and the manual does as WELL, but in the manual a later page also says it has like 125 watts per channel. is that the amplifier built in or something?
Anyways, if I did go for 5.1, these are part of the Classic II series and are cheap enough @ 50$ each.
http://www.accessories4less.com/make-a-store/item/BOSCS23GB/BOSTON-ACOUSTICS-CS-23-2-Way-3-1/2-in-Bookshelf-Speaker-Each-Black/1.html
2x those, 100$, + 100$ Center = 200$ and I have a 5.1 set. Thoughts?
Though this review:
http://bookshelf-speakers-review.toptenreviews.com/boston-acoustics-bookshelf-speakers-review.html
Has me worried and thinking I should go with the CS26.
http://bookshelf-speakers-review.toptenreviews.com/boston-acoustics-speakers-review.html
But they are alot more expensive and I can't find them nearly as cheap, 129$ is as cheap as I can find them...almost 3x as much!
This site appears to have them for 90$
So it'd be about 280$ for everything.
But I dunno if I can trust this site, anyone use it? Also it's on back order...ugh.
http://www.capitolsupply.com/catalog/cs26b-bookshelf-speaker-dual-6-cs8730476.html?cid=cse_ggl4