JBL Home Cinema small but loud!

[zepplongfellow]

Originally Posted by piratehunter

Dolby,

I’m not sure why you chose to take the low road here. Instead of responding to my honest question, you chose to be condescending, which is not something this forum takes lightly.

To say that I (or anyone else on this forum) don’t understand the "passion" of home theatre is beyond absurd. Have you looked at some of the setups here: we define home theatre passion!

And furthermore, anyone who chooses sound over image, obviously is more of an audiophile than a cinephile, so, again, be careful about your use your words.

Lastly, the reason it seems you are getting negative feedback is because you haven’t proven why your "unique" setup is worthy of the kind of praise you think it is. And when we ask you about why you’ve chosen the setup you have, you get defensive and start calling us all amateurs. And let’s be honest, your HT doesn’t come close to some of the others on this forum—no matter how many speakers you add.

I could not of said it better!

[ganthc]

Dolby, don't mind PH. He's just sensitive because everyone picks on his Axioms.

PH, just kidding, just kidding.

Seriously though, your next project should be to get that projector. You are missing out on the full experience of watching movies. I think you have gotten the sound part down, and your dedication to that is astonishing. But even someone that enjoys sound more than picture wouldn't be satisfied watching movies on a 20" monitor for an extended period of time, even with a stellar sound system. I did it for five months, and noticed that my movie watching decreased substantially. When I bought the HDTV it picked right back up again. Being able to match the visuals with the stellar audio setup you have is crucial, IMO.

[Dolby CP-200]

I like (Axioms) especially if the user uses matching (Axioms) for the three-screen very nice and placed in the right sized room would do creditable justice to film soundtracks. See PH, I can say nice things.

ganthc

Well I’m, LOL I’m not that good at saving, and video projectors can cost anywhere from less than £800.00 to around £50.000, something absurd as that I mean I’m not made of money.

Sticking a video projector in the room I, guess will only have a screen width no more than 6 or 7 feet, so I’ll choose very carefully based on price and the lifespan of the bulbs as well, which aren’t affordable by any means.

[Dolby CP-200]

Adding further to this, which explains why I’m whole installing multiple JBL control 1 for the surround array in the first place.

I could spend hours listening to a complex film mix with split-surrounds in the home today, and even getting the sound to move around with some very affordable means of re-plugging, and move the surrounds alone around in a (five-way mode) of fashion on the horizontal.

That is kinder like the five-screen array, and it works via using the (centre back) and re-plugging the left side surround and right side surround with two Dolby pro-logic decoders to create a difference between what sound signals cross over into the centre back, but sometimes are heard over in the left side surround, or it might be the right side surround.

Thus getting the sound to move in “U” shape mode and not rough and rugged mode like this └┘

[Wirehed]

ah yes, rough and rugged sound waves. I hate when that happens.

[Dolby CP-200]

"Follow the yellow brick road".

Lead out to lead in etc, etc.

RCA left and right front stereo outputs from the Kenwood KRF-X9050D THX select goes to an audio limiter then outputs to the Yamaha DSR-70 pro it then outputs from the left and right stereo where it goes to one EQ than of to 1x Marantz 1050 for the left and right JBL control 5.

Centre channel out from the Kenwood KRF-X9050D THX select goes to an audio limiter than outputs to the Yamaha DSP-100 where I use one of the inputs for a special front channel effect of blending two into one that is sent to either the JBL control 5 or two separate loudspeakers one that would be placed overhead of the JBL control 5.

Anyway the centre output then passes t x1 EQ than outputs to x1 Marantz 1050.

A second output from the Yamaha DSR-70 pro, the centre output where I can split the signal from left and right making it less in loudness as one part of the audio signal over to JBL control 5 centre channel via the use of the Yamaha DSP-100 where I use the other input and a single monaural output from that processor which acts as a pre amp in a why is set to full output on the fader.

The Yamaha DSR-70 and DSP-100 both have a low pass output that is sent to the audio mixer channels 1 for main 2 for centre 3 is used from the Pioneer VSP-200 low pass output and 6 is used for LFE.1.

All the faders are set to output the level of sub bass extension and LFE.1 with pan pots sent to full left hand side on channels 1 2 3 where the pan pot for right is sent set to full right hand side. There are two stereo outputs from the mixer and please don’t confuse this with (stereo sub bass). The Eltax R-12 A handles all the sub bass extension for the three-screen and surrounds, where the JBL 4645 handles only the LFE.1.

Surround outputs from the Kenwood KRF-X9050D THX select goes to the Pioneer VSP-200 where it has a built in amplifier for surround matrix this is used for JBL control 1 height surrounds the centre output is used for centre back for the two middle row JBL control 1.

The left and right stereo output from the Pioneer VSP-200 goes to x1 EQ then goes on to x1 Marantz 1030 where speaker A runs the sidewall JBL control 1 and speaker B runs the two outer rear stereo surrounds. I use A&B for Dolby stereo films or the odd few films with split-surrounds.

When in Dolby mode on the Pioneer VSP-200 it will engage the centre back and overhead surrounds when in bypass it will only run the sidewall JBL control 1 unless I switch on B where six JBL control1 will be running.

I think that covers it and who knows what I might add on tomorrow, its all in the Dolby mix.

Just decide to add the extra JBL control 5, I’d still need to get the extra amplification x2 matching Dolby pro-logic decoders a few more equalizers and bingo I’d can enjoy special event films like...

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Always
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
West Side Story
Alien
2001: A Space Odyssey first edition DVD or laserdisc (not the reissue DVD)
Terminator 2 Judgement Day
Terminator 3
The Abyss
South Pacific
The King and I
Casper
Willow
My Fair Lady
Lawrence of Arabia
Hook
Jurassic Park
The Sound of Music
Titanic
U-571
Spiderman
Spiderman 2
Star Wars

Oh so many its all good stuff.

[Iguana Man]

I am nearly speechless, and can only hope your eyes are half as good as you claim your ears to be.

Wow.

[Wirehed]

What does the strand of lights add? Do you have that controlled by the sound output so it blinks to the time of the music?

[sambow87]

Why don't you have a better TV? I mean, just a little bit bigger and wide screen would have so much to the experience.

[Vonner]

He doesn't need a bigger TV, he feels the image through the vibrations.

[Dolby CP-200]

Originally Posted by Iguana Man

I am nearly speechless, and can only hope your eyes are half as good as you claim your ears to be.

Wow.

ROTFLMAO

Well on warmer nights I still use the refractor telescope and Jupiter well I can still see the detail when I first saw it back in 1979.

[Dolby CP-200]

Originally Posted by sambow87

Why don't you have a better TV? I mean, just a little bit bigger and wide screen would have so much to the experience.

Don’t let that one fool you I have seen so many and they all suffer with (over scanned images) CRT, Plasma and LCD.

Before the contrast was giving up the ghost on my SONY KX-27PS1 I had adjusted the horizontal hold to produce more image than I have seen on my friends £2.000 pound Plasma screen, now then.

The Toshiba 4:3 that I’m using at the moment will hopefully give me enough time to save up for an affordable video projector.

As for (over scan) on this Toshiba there is know way I can adjust it to bring the sides in, its around 5% loss each side, but still its shape and very bright colours look brilliant with Beverly Hills Cop Victor Maitland garden was bright wow those flowers where really clear, I mean really clear I could almost reach out and pluck one.