Well, I’ve made some changes since I last posted my HT picture here. Gone are the horrible foam acoustic paneling, they simply fell off too much (off the backer board) and normally at rather embarrassing times (company over). They’ve been replaced by these custom made acoustic tiles (wood frame with hard-pack insulation and fabric wrapped). I hug them with aircraft cable. I also ran a full-length black curtain in the front of the room to remove any visual distractions.
As for the equipment, it’s gone through some major changes as well. I have replaced the Marantz SR-7400 with a Sunfire Theater Grand proc and Rotel RMB-1075 amplifier. I purchased a Samsung OTA HD tuner as well. My front-end speaker setup has changed from B&W 601 S2s and a CC6 S2 center to the 601 S3s and LCR600 S3 shown. The 601 S2s were moved to the rear and the 600 S3s were removed and used as speakers in the kitchen (they are great). The only other improvement is the Rane BB22 unbalanced RCA to balanced XLR converter not shown. It not only added a 12dB boost to my sub amp (QSC RMX-850) but also removed some of the hiss and hum the rather long RCA was causing figuring that the amp is in the other room (due to fan noise)
Current equipment list:
Hitachi 51SWX20B (ISF calibrated)
Samsung SIR-T451 OTA HD receiver
Marantz DV6200 DVD player (Foculpod isolated)
Pioneer CLD-D504 LD player
Sunfire Theater Grand proc
Rotel RMB-1075 5ch amp
Rane BB22 (balances sub input)
QSC RMX-850 Amplifier (sub)
Straightwire Rhapsody S cables, Octave cables and Blue thunder power cords (front L&R, center and amp)
Canare 4S11 cable (sub and surrounds)
Tributaries Delta and Direct Connect interconnects
Xbox with Hi-def pack
Home Theater master MX-500 remote (love, love, love)
