System 2 up and running.

[Sheep]

After cleaning out our basement (room beside mine, same dimensions) my brother's home theater has been re-assembled and is operational.

My Athena AS-P4000 is in that room (after all, it is his) and his speakers consist of a local Canadian company called Pro-Linear. For the money, they sound really good. The cabinets could use some extra bracing and peal n seal, but that's work, and I am lazy.

Components list:

Fronts: Pro-Linear 5.6T2
Center: Pro-Linear 5.5C
Rears: Pro-Linear 5.5B
Subwoofer: Athena AS-P4000
Recevier: Yamaha RXV-520
DVD Player: LG all format player (no HDDVD, BluRay, DVDA, or SACD)
Display: Sony 27inch \X/ega
Wiring: Monster THX and Basic Subwoofer and Front 3 speaker wires. Rears using uber crappy thin wire, with mulitple splices(I wanted to use nicer wire).


Photos:

This is a view of the TV and fronts. I would have liked it to be centered on a wall, but I have no say in this system, I'm just wanted to make it work.

This is the subwoofer location, to the right of the TV and fronts.

This is the left surround, which is going to be re-positioned due to the fact that it isn't very useful as a surround in that spot. In this picture you can see the Bar my brother and I built for my dad for his 50th birthday. It was mainly my brother assembling it, I helped where I could and paid for half of the materials.

Same with this one.

By now, you've probably seen the wall-less walls. This room is kinda being renovated. As in, its been started, but no work is currently being done. We just finished out entrance way and now the attention is being focused on this room. After that, mine!


SheepStar

 

[evilkat]

Is the Ikea Poang the only chair/couch directly behind the TV? Once the walls are done, I bet this place will make for a pretty schweet HT!

 

[Sheep]

Is the Ikea Poang the only chair/couch directly behind the TV? Once the walls are done, I bet this place will make for a pretty schweet HT!

That chair is in the current sweet spot for both bass, and surround placement. Probly tomorrow, I'm going to look into other places to put the surrounds, but this corner layout has to be the worst possible one.

My HT is still the reference.

SheepStar

 

[Seth=L]

My HT is still the reference.

SheepStar

That goes without saying.

So are you guys going to be competing, since the rooms are side by side?

 

[Sheep]

That goes without saying.

So are you guys going to be competing, since the rooms are side by side?

That would be the shortest competition in the history of... competitions.

His mains have more bass then mine, and probly go louder. That's about it.

SheepStar

 

[Seth=L]

Some people would qualify that as a win, not me, but some.

Strangest thing just happened. I was trying to reach something and I was in an awkward position and I fell onto my Pioneer Elite CD player, and it cut my side. It is like a 6 inch slash on my ribs. The CD player is fine, it didn't even move. It had some advantages though, like it weighs as much as most sub $400 A/V receivers.

Sorry for the rant, but that CD player impresses me in strange ways.

 

[Sheep]

Some people would qualify that as a win, not me, but some.

Strangest thing just happened. I was trying to reach something and I was in an awkward position and I fell onto my Pioneer Elite CD player, and it cut my side. It is like a 6 inch slash on my ribs. The CD player is fine, it didn't even move. It had some advantages though, like it weighs as much as most sub $400 A/V receivers.

Sorry for the rant, but that CD player impresses me in strange ways.

I think you're lost some blood.

SheepStar

 

[Seth=L]

If you get a Pioneer PD-65, which you may be able to get one for a modest price on audiogon or ebay, and somehow manage to hurt yourself in connection to events surrounding the CD player and it doesn't even wince, you will want to clap for this amazing inanimate object.