Went to cinema yesterday to compare with my own setup. I assumed my setup was about the same as a cinema, maybe slightly worse. But if a cinema is base line aka5/10 then i would say my own setup is 9 or 9.5/10, even tho i can make many improvements, the sound&img quality i get at home is miles above what you see on a cinema where i live anyways :X

Side note - Anyone know any better solution for my lighting? Its just cheap temu lights as i would prefer to not drill holes in the ceiling. Its annoying cause each of them is driven by 3x AAA batteries and they need to be charged quite often...

Preview of my home theatre

Hi there,

I’m running into a bit of a planning issue. I just bought a 77” TV for my media room and am having trouble picking the right place to put the TV/console/speakers because of a 36” door that opens INTO my media room. I have attached a floor plan with (I think) to scale furniture and speakers/console/TV to illustrate the layout. Right now I centered the TV on the wall assuming the door is open because I don’t want the door to open and hit my speakers that I am putting on stands. Any advice would be appreciated on the best way to proceed so I can achieve this 5.1 setup. The door would be closed while watching movies down here.

Note: ignore the center channel being in front of the console in the floor plan view. It would be rest on the front edge of console as the other pictures show.

Most casual buyers see a familiar name, spot a buzzword like “Mini LED" and assume they are getting superior picture quality. This same issue is now in LA federal court. TCL claims Samsung misled consumers who wanted the better picture quality associated with Mini LED by marketing recycled & standard LED sets under its M Model lineup. Samsung says it stands fully behind its product descriptions.

What's your opinion on this and What do you check first when helping friends or family buy a television?

Hey everyone!

Sorry if this is a basic question, but I'm looking for RCA-to-XLR cables to connect my Denon X3800H pre-outs to a Buckeye Hypex amp.

Buckeye mentions that their cables follow the specific Purifi/Hypex wiring recommendations to avoid noise or ground hum. I'd like to make sure I get cables wired correctly, rather than just buying any RCA-to-XLR cable.

Does anyone know where I can buy suitable cables in Canada? I'm only looking for short ones (around 1 ft), and ideally something available to order and ship within Canada. I have found plenty on Amazon.ca but i cant confirm how they are wired.

Thanks!

Edit: Hahah okok, thank you for the answers. I was clearly missing something.

I moved into a new appartment and am now not able to wallmount my magnat atm 202 speakers. Right now i set them up as rear surrounds in a 7.1 setup but can’t decide if this is the best i could get with my current hardware.

Would you go 5.1.2 upfiring or even 5.1 in this scenario?

Front L/R distance ~2,4m
Front L/R distance to listening position ~2,10m
Rear distance to listening position ~0,8m
Front Wall to Back Wall distance ~ 3m
Room hight 2,6m

We own a cafe and these built in ceiling speakers were never used by the previous owners, I have no idea what amp I need to buy to get music going. I've tested the speakers and they work at least! I'll just connect via phone BT or aux cable.

Any advice would be really appreciated!

Decided to finally take the Dirac plunge. Not really interested in the ART module at this time but definitely the other 2. Mic is on order. For someone with mostly no Dirac knowledge, what is helpful to know in advance? Any tips that you learned the hard way? etc.

Thanks!

I noticed today these spots in the left top corner of my tv. They are in every corner, but this is the one most noticable. What might be the cause for this?

So my 2023 shield is acting up lately and I'm starting to look for a replacement.

I mainly use Plex and Disney+, Streams (BE), ... and I have a Marantz Cinema 50 with a 5.1.4 setup and a Samsung QLED 4K 65 inch Q95T (2020)

Had my thoughts set on a Dune HD Homatics Box R 4K Plus but with the new apple tv 4k out and seeing mentions of an Ugoos AM6B Plus I don't know what to pick.

My ideal solution is to use android tv with my apps and be able to do lossless towards my Marantz so it will handle the decoding instead of the box.

Any tips/suggestions?

I have no idea what I'm doing with audio equipment. I just want something in the $500 or less range that can give me surround sound for games and movies. It doesn't have to be amazing. I've only ever used the speakers on my tv so my bar is low. Can someone please recommend a set up in my price range?

I have a stone veneer wall from floor to ceiling with a fireplace. There is a board 34 inches wide but only 6 inches height that has been installed for attaching a TV mount to

I’m hoping to get some help finding a TV mount that uses a bracket that attaches to the stud that is less than 6 inches in height otherwise the bracket will be overlapping stone veneer wall

Many of these TV mounts are difficult to tell what the height of the wall bracket is?

The width of the wall bracket should be a non issue. Preferably the mount can extend away from the wall due to a fireplace. Tv will be probably be 65 or 70 inch tv

Hey there!! Very new to this process as I’ve lived with Roku TVs for years now and a single Bose bar for the past two. Feels like it’s time to finally invest since my partner and I just got our first home.

We have a new A95L 77” in a room that’ll be designated as a home theater after I paint it and add stuff to help with bouncing sound (roughly 12 foot by 10 foot with barely any lighting). Recently found a new Denon S570-BT receiver to begin setting the space up with sound.

My question is: there is another person willing to sell me a complete set of Klipsch speakers (includes a RC 62 II center, two RS 52 II surrounds, and two RF 82 II floor speakers but no subwoofer) and throw in an Onkyo NR818 receiver. Are those a decent set of speakers to go with that receiver? I’d prefer to keep the Denon. Sorry if this is a dumb question

Does anyone know of a "dumb"TV with more than one USB port? I'd like to power a streaming stick and antenna amplifier with the USB ports so that they both shut off with the TV, but everything I see just has one port. I think I might have seen some smaller TVs (19" or so) with two ports, but I can't find one over 32". Any advice would be appreciated.

Looking to add a subwoofer to my set up. I currently have Denon X3900H, KEF Q7 Meta LR, KEF Q6 center, KEF Q1 rear. I watch TV, Movies and some music. The room is about 20x20 foot, 9 foot ceiling basement. There is another 20x20 ish room to the rear via an open walkway. My first choice is the RSL Speedwoofer 12s but I am open to other options. Would a 12 inch work different than say two 10 in?

I have a 5.2 system with an Onkyo RZ-50.

I added a couple of heights speakers to make a 5.2.2.

Wired up the heights and.....nothing. Admittedly, I am a noob at this. So do the heights only work if I'm watching something configured to activate the heights?

I looked at all my blue rays and they're all configured for 5.1. Do the heights only work if I watch something configured for x.x.2 sound?

Sorry if this is OT, but Automoderator on r/appletv keeps rejecting this post. I've had problems with the YouTube app since the upgrade, I was told it was Google's fault and had to wait for their app upgrade. Weeks have passed, I still have to keep "Match rate" and "Match content" disabled to have the app not go crazy trying to set the correct format (which is 99% of the times just SDR) and then produce videos with suttering audio.

But last night happened something that really made me upset: I wanted to watch the football (soccer, for you American friends) on Prime Video, the app showed that the match would have been broadcasted in HDR10+, but the ATV didn't do the switch (ofc I had reactivated the matching settings) and my TV showed the video was SDR (and the colours were all saturated and terrible like when there's a content format mismatch). I had to use the Prime Video app on the TV to have it watchable which completely defeats the purpose of having an ATV.

I moved to the ATV (from Nvidia Shield) beacause it WAS the best box for correct content and rate automatic matching (I have an Home Theater system, so I care about that a lot); if this, to me killer, feature has gone because Apple focus is now just Siri or the new (expensive) ATV, I guess I'm about to replace the ATV (and I'd not want that, because I'm invested in the Apple ecosystem with a Mac, iPad and iPhone).

Hello. I'm finally looking to add a center channel and rear surrounds to my system. The thing is it's a bit of an odd system speaker wise and I'm not sure how to pair them

Basically I had some studio monitors laying around, Neumann 310s and a Neumann KH750 sub and decided to use those as my theater speakers instead of losing money selling and replacing them. Since they are studio monitors they use XLR connections which meant I had to find a receiver with XLR. I ended up with a Marantz 7706

The Neumann speakers are quite expensive and I don't think I want to spend that much on my center channel or surrounds. This is far from a reference system and is in an untreated room so I am not expecting perfection here. But I don't want to badly hamper the system by adding badly inferior components. I could probably go in for around $3k total. Hoping to find a happy medium here

Any help is appreciated thank you

Hey guys... I'm trying to figure out am I doing something wrong with Dirac ART or do my speakers just not have a enough juice to cancel standing waves? I have attached my measurements

5.1.4 Setup:

Denon X3800H powering heights:

4x Klipsch R41SA

Emotiva A5 powering bed layer:

1x Klipsch RP502C II

2x Klipsch RP8000F II

2x Klipsch RP502S I on speaker stands, not wall mounted

2x SVS SB2000 Pro

Final Post on Home build as made some final tweaks following some input from this fine forum, and thought I'd share.

- Denon AVC-X3800H

- 3x Fosi V3 Stereo amps for extra channel support and Bass Shaker support

- 2x Monolith V2 M12 Ported Subs (front and rear)

- 1x Bower & Wilkins ASW 610XP Sealed Sub Front

- 1x Crown XLS1502 because Monoprice plate Amps suck

- 3x Monitor Audio CP-IW460X In-Wall Speakers for L,C,R

- 4x Bowers & Wilkins CWM 650 in walls speakers for sides and rears

- 7x Bowers and Wilkins CCM 663 Directional in ceiling for Atmos 

- 4x Dayton Audio BST300Ex 300Watt Bass Shakers

- Valerion VisionMaster Pro2 Projector 

- Harmony Elite

- 136" Spandex Screen DIY (with acoustic panels behind)

- 10x Large High Frequency absorber on side walls

- 3x Mid Frequency deep Bass traps on rear walls

- 2x Sinden Light Guns (House of the Dead on a 136" screen is wild)

- PS5 + FireTv Cube + Gaming PC for Gaming/Movies/Tv/Light Guns

- GSonic Immersive + EVO32 Calibrated

- Lighting all smart controlled via Alexa and/or Harmony Elite SmartThings integration or flic buttons 

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Basement build. Uk basement in a very old 300+ year old house.

House came with a 90s special of a load of ceiling speakers pretending to be a cinema room. Every wall is a bit wobbly, wall is solid stone, ceiling is Oak beams. 

Installed and made everything myself. I wanted every speaker to be invisible (minus the subs that are frankly too massive to realistically hide) and the whole room to be fabric wrapped to be like a real cinema. There's 17 speakers and 4 bass shakers in the room but you basically cant see any of them....

Lined 50% of the room in Tia Knight Black velvet with LED downlighting and black velvet lined soffits to hide the curtain track and led. All walls painted in Rosco Theatre Super Saturated Black paint which is incredible but if you even look at it it will mark. It’s best for ceilings and any wall you won’t touch. Nothing beats velvet, but Rosco paint comes close.

Wall panels were made from simple CLS timber to create frames, edges routed for a nice chamfer detail, lined with weed membrane to stop the stuffed acoustic rockwool from falling out. Fabric is a dark grey Camira Blazer wool stapled all round, which is both lovely to touch and acoustically transparent to also hide the surrounds. Mounted with Button fix fixings so can be removed.

Screen is 136” DIY made from CLS timber and Tia Knight spandex, white over black stretch fabric. Screen is also stuffed with acoustic rockwool. Spandex being acoustically transparent means the Centre is hidden behind screen. Screen held on wall with French cleat. More velvet panels around the screen hiding L+R. All wiring chased into walls or hidden behind the panels.

Ceiling in front of screen is 9mm Mdf panels wrapped in velvet held to ceiling using ButtonFix fixings which are bloody great. (https://www.button-fix.com/products/button-fix-type-3) Holes cut in the Mdf means Atmos speakers are hidden only behind fabric so invisible. Velvet stops all light reflections.

Panels above sofa are similarly 9mm Mdf wrapped in Camira fitted using ButtonFix, holes in Mdf for the Atmos speakers but hidden behind fabric, some parts of ceiling are curved, yes this was an absolute nightmare to fit and required cutting hundreds of grooves into mdf to get a curve. oh also nothing in this room is 90 degrees so that makes tolerances so so much fun….

Ceiling behind sofa is Rosco black paint, compared to velvet almost looks reflective!

Unit under screen is a now out of production IKEA Kallax with metal perforated doors for airflow. Back entirely removed also to help here too. Will add a fan if any overheating but currenlty no issue. Top is lined with black velvet. Subs also draped in black velvet.

Cloud9 Underlay and the thickest blackest carpet I could find which made a massive impact to acoustics. Sofa is a massive black velvet U sectional, middle bit pulls out to make a U sofa or pushed in place as per the pics to make a massive sofa lounger. Mounted on rubber feet for vibration isolation.

Radiator has been sprayed matt black, smoke detector is Matt black, light switch, plug sockets all black. Only thing not black is the brass up/downlights and the original oak beams oak doors and weird oak wall access panel (all doors have been acoustically sealed using draft excluder tape which is surprisingly effective!) Corner of room has an arched secret oak door/bookshelf for bluerays and storage behind, hidden by more velvet.

DIY high frequency Acoustic Panels on side wall and behind screen and deeper Mid/Low frequency bass traps on rear wall

4x 300Watt Bass shakers in couch, may have gone a bit overboard on these but they are fun...

Theres no windows in the room, so with lights off it’s like a hyperbaric chamber, you can’t see your hand in front of your face, and being underground means acoustics are pretty great. It’s quite hard to photograph as there’s such little light! A really fun project and pretty happy with the results. Any queries on the build do drop a comment and will be happy to answer!

I think now, I really am done. Don't think....there is anything left to add. Just in time for GTAVI!

Any suggestions for improvemets welcome as ever!

Hi all, I am about to buy my TV for my home theater room and was wondering what's most important to enable smooth transition between apps and within apps. I will be mainly watching sports through YouTube TV and it's important to me the TV goes through apps smoothly/quickly with little to no delay. I have a ~5 year old samsung in my office and there's a noticeable delay between clicking a button on the remote and the TV responding (drives me nuts). At first I was thinking I need to pony up for a TV with a nice processor, but my buddy told me if I buy an apple TV to pair with the TV, it will give me what I want (smooth transitions between apps). He said he has an older TV paired with an apple TV and it's fine. Is this true? If so, I would be able to save some on the TV as I wouldn't need to buy a higher end one with a good processor. I'm pretty new to this world first time ever buying a decent TV. Thanks

I have a 65” Roku Plus Series 4L QLED on the way. I’m not hugely picky about my tv tech and like the Roku interface. Upgrading from a 55” TCL Roku that I have a Sonos Ray on. I’ve always been happy with this setup and it’s lasted me about 4 years so far with no issues. I’m in a larger space now, though, and the Ray isn’t suited for it. What’s the best (reasonably) affordable sound option for me? I’d like to not shell out a ton of money on the sound system for $650.00 tv. Thank in advance for any suggestions.

Basically this drawing it for example but my room is not like this. But i can add 2 more speakers but they would have to be elevated DIRECTLY above the sofa. Like it says in photo. I could buy ones that angle down like KKef Q8s but not sure if it will mess up the sound algorithms

So they are not ear level as Dolby requires for a 7.2 BUT they are also not Height speakers according to Dolby height rules.

Just hooked up a new Denon AVR730H to my Sony Bravia TV. Also connected Polk Speakers to the Denon-2 bookshelf tsi110, an ES35 center channel, and a 10" Polk subwoofer. Everything seems good so far except for 2 things-first is that the Denon reported that video quality is limited and suggested replacing HDMI cables, which I am doing tomorrow. The other thing is that periodically a section of the TV screen will glitch with horizontal green lines, or bars actually, just for a second. I'm wondering if this could be attributed to the HDMI cables or if there could be another cause. Any ideas?