Here’s my own little home cinema soon to be upgrade via some possibly new and affordable Behringer A500 amplifiers that a mate just showed me, who lives in the USA Texas.
Thou it may look small the SONY TV monitor it’s not a bad performer for her age. I’m more crazy for the sound but you need a big image and that can only be accomplished via a video projector which I don’t have at the moment.
But as far as the sound goes in the room it’s just wow, sure beats what I have felt at the local cinemas in my home town, but it would never equal the Empire Leicester Square screen #1, it might come close but it’s still a few light-years behind.
The Kenwood KRF-9050D THX select AVR is mostly the heart of all the Dolby Stereo Dolby Digital 5.1 and dts 5.1 decoding, with Lucasfilm THX electronic circuitry to re-EQ the fronts surrounds and a whole lot more, some of which most would now understand.
All the RCA pre-outputs from the Kenwood KRF-X9050D THX select, goes to different parts of audio electronics for special audio processing, that makes this home cinema, well not to special, but it’s all in the mix I say, and with very carefully listening I can take the fronts one step further with very little cost!
The Yamaha DSR-70Pro is a Dolby Surround Pro-Logic matrix processor, which I have adapted for use of the front left and right, that means the left and right outputs from the Kenwood, goes into the DSR-70Pro, and then output to the Ferguson Videostar, Hi-Fi VCR, which has an onboard audio limiter, now like I explained with the first audio limiter the Panasonic, which is used for the centre channel, well the Ferguson, just simply does the left and right stereo.
With all levels set to (0db) on the Kenwood, and via running it at 0db reference level, and via setting the volume on the amplifies and very careful adjustment of the EQ’s, where I aim for an optimum peak level of 85dbA in the centre of the room, not all films tend to peak at 85dbA which is around the mid high to high frequency range!
But sometimes it does peak slightly over at around 88dbA this is acceptable seeing it it’s only for about 1 second, if the levels should exceed this for more than a few seconds, and the sound of the high frequencies becomes too much for taking, then I will make the necessary modifications to the sound system, so far it’s been running like a treat!
Realistic audio mixer, this is used to control all the sub bass lows from the main fronts, centre, split-surrounds, and the LFE.1 separately, each one is assigned to an individual line in input on the mixing consol, and is panned and the fader level is adjusted to make sure the signal never goes over the 0db reference level.
This as preformed very well over the last few years, and I have done some rather interesting testing of the LFE.1 signal only, to see which film on DVD as the overall highest LFE.1 signal, more to come on this later.
Yamaha DSP-100 processing the centre channel, via RCA phone from Kenwood
Marantz 1050’s stereo amplifiers, fronts left and right, centre and upper centre
Marantz 1030 stereo amplifier side surrounds
2WEX electronic active X-over centre channel, this helps to give a more powerful centre channel, not just for dialogue, but for sound effects and music.
Plus an array of EQ’s for room correction, these are used for fronts sub bass and the split-surrounds array. Mostly made up of Technics Marantz and Genexxa and a JVC which is pictured to the in the other photos.
JBL control 5’s three-screen across the fronts, with two extra JBL control 5’s to be latter installed for screen channels 2 & 4 left centre, right centre this September 2006.
JBL MR centre, this is placed 7 feet above, this generates wonderful placement of phantom centre imaged sounds from the left and right, to this loudspeaker, and performs very well indeed.
JBL 4645 18” professional THX approved cinema sub bass, with a newer JBL 224H, this generates lows that are more cinema exact sounding, with deep abyssal low end of unrelenting pressure, slam kick rumble pounding shaking, is played flawlessly, with 115dbc! It can go to 120dbc if I was so inclined to do so!
JBL control 1’s multi-array summer project! I have started the summer of with a brand new array of JBL control 1’s, the plan is to install x16 JBL control ‘s over the summer season, at the present moment I’m running x6 JBL control ‘s x2 on each sidewall and x2 on the back wall, or rather the door.
With just x10 more to be installed the sound at present is awesome, truly awesome!
Pioneer CLD-1750 Laserdisc player this is the main laserdisc player that I use for playing laserdisc films back at the moment.
Pioneer CLD-2950 Laserdisc player this player is currently turned off, as I need a few basic parts to install on it, other than that she’s ok.
Pioneer DV-525 DVD region 2 this is the main DVD player that I use most of the time for DVD film playback.
SONY DVP-S336 DVD region 2 this is my second DVD player, I use this most times.
Cello DR-810 DVD-RW this is a DVD recorder, I brought this because I was frustrated with the poor Star Trek the motion picture on DVD with poor sound and poor editing, so I transferred Star Trek the motion picture from widescreen laserdisc 2.35:1 scope, to DVD-RW, now I have watched the original more times over the awful directors edition!
Furguson Hi-FI VHS PAL this rarely gets used now, as I’m slowly transferring some of the films from VHS PAL to DVD-RW, as I’m still waiting for Poltergeist to arrive on region 2 DVD UK.
For video monitoring I’m running the SONY KX-21 PS1
