oh yeah....also put the metal plates over the wiring 2nite too!! :cool:

Just wanted to show a before and after side by side of my media plug-ins:

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/3806/img2307j.jpg

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well i have the day off for some school stuff for my daughter which we don't have to be to until 10.

so i decided to go test all of my speaker locations.

good news: every speaker location works!!! :rock:

not so good news: i'm not to happy w/the quality of sound coming from the mid and rear locations.

can it be attributed to my recv'r and the music source??

i took the front speaker which sounded fine and moved it to the rear location, it gave me the same quality as the speaker i replaced. :confused:

i used the front/main connection on the recv'r and had it on a music setting. i had a portable cd player hooked up w/rca cables as the music source.

i tried my brother in laws 7.1 recv'r and if it's possible, the quality was worse. :jawdrop:

ANY IDEAS?????

Since you don't have drywall installed, the acoustics could just be poor in your room right now. :shrug:

I think Hammie is onto it... a quick suggestion though

Are you matrixing the sound to the surrounds? Remember CD's are recorded in Stereo, so if matrixed the surrounds will be accented and sometimes the only parts pulled out are many times reverb, not the actual tone... Try everything out with ALL STEREO setting.

oh wait, is that what you meant by Front Main connections... you did have it hooked up to the L/R..

back to hammie's idea

it wasn't so much as the acoustics so much as how quite they were. i had to put my ear up to each just to hear anything.

i checked this and put it on 2 channel stereo and that gave me a bit more sound, i could @ least hear them when i was @ the front of the room and they were @ the back of the room.

front to back i think i'm looking @ 16'.

i'm hoping w/a bigger recv'r and probably and amp (the speakers i want are pretty burly) that the issue won't come up w/movies. :ohnoes:

thanks for the responses guys.

now that i know the speakers all work and the wiring is put back together.......drywall this weekend for sure!!!! :rock: :banana:

Also don't forget to run any audio matching the AVR may have (MCACC, Audyssey).. That can help bring up the volume of individual speakers. If its still not enough, you can manually tweak it.

You hit it right on the head. Currently it's just a giant space full of reflective surfaces.

Bill

I think you will be fine once you get drywall installed and a properly calibrated AVR and or amp in place. You would be surprised what a little calibration can do.

Good luck!

thanks guys!!!

Polarity?
 

Check the polarity on your speaker wires.

Good point. If you cannot tell by the speaker wire, try the battery test.

Yes, try that ^^^

I think you said you did this, but I wanted to be sure.

You connected the rear speaker wire to the front outputs from the recevier, right? After doing that, how was the sound?

If the polarity doesn't fix it....I mean make it sound just like the front speakers did....then I'd start searching for a short in the wire.

Most receivers will turn off if a short is detected...but I wouldn't say ALL would.

If you honestly need to put your ear up to the speaker in order to hear it....that's not gonna work no matter what.

Did you move the same speaker around the room? I'd try that too...make sure it's not just the speaker. ---again I think you did some of this...I just got lost in your posts :o

thanks for the tip guys.

i'll go and check out if that does anything.

just went & checked......all of the wires were hooked up on all of the speakers.....red inside the wall to the red plug on wall plate. wire w/writing on it to the red on the speaker.

the speaker wire from the wall to the recv'r was flipped though.....the writing was hooked to the black connection on the recv'r.

once i flipped these it helped quite a bit.

so i feel a little better now. :relief:

thanks again guys!!!

i'll be posting some pix sunday night of any progress i make w/the drywall.

worked for about 4-5 hours today on drywall. here are some pix from my progress today.

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/8272/img2425x.jpg

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I love it! Keep the updates coming. great, great work Benny!

Looks Great Benny , Progress :rock:

the media center piece was a bit of trouble to get all of those openings to line up right.

but it all worked out in the end thankfully. :relief:

1 more pic i forgot. this is the sub connection and power outlet.

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