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02-06-2002, 01:15 AM
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Coffee Boy 
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Greater Seattle Area, WA
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Chromy's Home Theater
Took some quick pictures of my system in it's "natural environment"... one of the TV in action to follow shortly...
Here is a picture of the front (duh...) taken from the doorway.  Here is a picture of one of my side speakers... bipolar towers so the sound comes out the front and the back (firing towards the back and front of the room, or left and right in this picture)  Here is a closer view of my SV Subwoofers in the front right corner... they are pretty dark so they don't photograph well  My equipment rack is located in a closet in the rear of the room... to do this summer is put a fan in the ceiling so it doesn't heat up in there! Top to bottom... Receiver,HTPC,DVD player,Sub electronics  Here is a closeup of the Subwoofer electronics... from top to bottom, dual 31 band EQ, compressor, and amp!  Here is a desktop shot from my HTPC... of course with overscan I don't see most of the edges (or the task bar) but that's the way that I like it! (who really wants to see windows on their TV?)  Not part of my main system, but here is the downstairs system... Marantz Receiever, Sony 5 disc carousel CD player, JVC Dish network Satelite receiver. Dreamcast, Nintendo 64 and Super nintendo.  Video Display Mits 46" WS HDTV (Not getting bad performance out of my THIRD ONE  Audio/Processing B&K AVR 307 Mains Wharfdale Emerald LR speakers (towers, 6.5" woof, 6.5" mid-woof, 1" tweeter) Center Wharfdale Emerald Center speaker (2 5.25" woofs, 1" tweeter, doesn't need a RS super tweeter like Eye's Polk to be inteligible  )Surrounds (Side) Paradigm Export BPs (bi-polar towers, 2 6.5" mid-woofers, 2 1" tweeters) Surrounds Polk Audio Bookshelf Speakers (6.5" mid-woof, 2 1" tweeters) Sub woofer system 2 SV Subwoofers (25-31 CS, Custom tuned to 22 HZ, 12"woofer) Alesis EQ (dual 31 band 1/3 octave) dbx compressor Peavey PV4c Power Amp (210 WPCx2) HTPC 1ghz AMD Thunderbird Hercules GameTheaterXP (digital sound card/external pod) Audiophile 2496 ATI Radeon 7200 (64M of RAM, usually runs at 1920x540p) 384M RAM WinME Intell Wireless keyboard/mouse (keyboard is fine, mouse chews through batteries like there is no tomorrow) TheaterTek DVD Player Last edited by Chromy : 06-06-2003 at 09:53 PM. |
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02-06-2002, 02:08 AM
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HA! Good catch.
ATI Radeon The Audiophile is made by M-audio and is a professional digital audio card. I now use the GameTheaterXP for Gaming and the Audiophile for co-ax digital out. Chromy |
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02-06-2002, 03:12 AM
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I have been trying to get a review model. It sounds like a neat product, but their marketing/PR people kind of suck.
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02-07-2002, 05:00 PM
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04-29-2002, 03:18 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Shell Beach, CA, USA
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I am curious how the wharfedale line is.
They are available for cheap on ubid.com Their new Pacific Line looks attractive but I have neber seen them in the store so I do not know how they sound. Do you know of any chain stores that sell them?
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04-30-2002, 07:16 PM
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Coffee Boy
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I have not seen these in any chain store. I got mine at a local HT shop that happens to carry Wharfdale speakers. I'm sure that with a little research you should be able to find someone in your local area that carries the speakers. I am fairly impressed with the ones that I got... they perform very well for what I paid for them.
Chromy |
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04-30-2002, 07:28 PM
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Actor
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Shell Beach, CA, USA
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yeah they are pretty inexpensive on ubid.com
I am debating between them and the Axiom line I will probably go with the axiom line because I do not want to buy anything from Ubid if I do not have to.
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05-02-2002, 11:51 PM
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Hey Chromy, what line of Mits do you have? Diamond? Platinum?
Peace......
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05-12-2002, 06:44 AM
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I wonder, do you have a pair of subwoofers there? You're talking in plural, yet I can see only one on your pics.
Someday you'll have to give me advice on how to build a decent HTPC. Not that I had any money left right now
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05-12-2002, 07:19 AM
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05-13-2002, 07:13 AM
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Yup...
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05-13-2002, 02:25 PM
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Coffee Boy
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They are both in that back right corner... you can see light hitting the one behind the right speaker (and the front sub)
It's black, so it's kind of hard to see in the picture... Chromy |
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05-14-2002, 05:43 AM
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I'm still not convinced.
I know you guys make this up and try to spawn me in some kind of conspirative plot. Yes, that must be it. Now I want hard evidence 
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05-16-2002, 03:31 AM
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Well, dom, for you...
I have a picture somewhere on the Mac that I'll post as soon as the wife is done surfing. Tomdkat... the 46" is only available in one of Mits' product lines so that made my selection easy ...Chromy |
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05-17-2002, 03:12 AM
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  nice...
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05-17-2002, 06:31 AM
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Yeah, let me add a
of my own...When I was looking for a Sub, I considered the 20-39, but the shipping to Israel was, iirc, over $200 per speaker, so I let it go.
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05-17-2002, 04:09 PM
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You can probably feel Chromy's subs from Israel.
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05-17-2002, 08:33 PM
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CHROMY, WHY NOT PUT A SUB BEHIND THE LEFT SPEAKER TO GIVE MORE OF A STEREO EFFECT.
I know subs are not as directional as speakers, but you can sense directioon a little bit. It just seems silly to me to have them both on one side. Just a thought
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05-17-2002, 08:41 PM
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Because with multiple subs in a room, it's easy to have them interfere with each other by having cancelation effects. The easiest way to avoid it is to have them in the same place.
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05-20-2002, 09:21 PM
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snippysnappy... I tried that last time that I had the TV out of the room... moved all the other speakers around and played with placement. I really liked the look of symmetry, but in addition to sounding a little thin, with one sub in each front corner, it actually made the bass sound asymetric (sounded like it was actually comming from one side)
My mains handle bass fairly well, and I have some nice crossover options with the B&K receiver so I have my subs crossed over fairly low, with a faster rolloff for them and a smoother rollof on my mains. Any directional bass is handled by my mains (including surrounds, as those bipolar towers put out pretty amazing bass too!) All in all, if size doesn't matter, IMHO you can't beat the SVS subs value wise. These things are incredible... Chromy |
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05-20-2002, 09:41 PM
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Thanks for the pics, dude... Man I REALLY need to get off my ass and get pics of my gear up....
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06-01-2002, 11:54 PM
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Hot damn! Everyone else's home theatres look so much better than mine, I am so jealous!
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05-26-2003, 05:37 AM
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Actor
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I am pretty sure I want an SVS sub. Do you still think this is a wise decision after purchasing. If so, I definitely think I am going to go with the 25-31 PCi, I am excited about this sub.
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I balked, now the proud owner of both formats. I am now bi-partisan. I enjoy what both red and blue have to offer. My Theater MySpace |
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05-27-2003, 06:40 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: New Jersey, USA
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That is one nice setup you got there Chromy
 Along with your gear, I really like the color layout of the walls and carpet (mine is very similar). Are those panels on the wall acoustical treatments or just there for decoration? |
