Badz's Home Theater Thread

[badz]

Hello All! I have 'lurked' on blu-ray.com for a few years but only recently decided to dive into the forum community. Ton's of activity with tons of knowledgeable responses from what I can see already.

I have been into audio for about 4 or 5 years at this point, and while I have learned a ton, I still consider myself a novice in the grand scheme of things. I am always looking for feedback on ways to improve my system so not only will I keep this thread up to date as it continues to evolve, but I would love to discuss any recommendations or questions anyone has on my system. With that said, let me share my setup with you guys. To start things off I copied some details from my thread on AVSForum. Recently I just upgraded my center from a DefTech ProCenter1000 to a DefTech C/L/R 2002. Pics are in my HT gallery.
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Grabbed myself a C/L/R 2002 recently! With the new DefTech 8000 series speakers that are out I noticed how much the price of the C/L/R 2002's had dropped, and I simply could not resist the temptation to upgrade while the prices were as good as they were. Once the C/L/R arrived my sneaking suspicions were realized in that the new speaker wasn't going to fit on the shelf of my TV stand, and without the ability to mount my TV the speaker obviously wasn't going to fit on the top of the TV stand either. After a bit of research I saw a few options in how I could manage the setup, but I decided to take the cheapest route and I just slapped the speaker on a small end table that I already had. With the added space the table was going to eat up in front of my TV now, I decided to basically shift all of my living room 90 degrees to the left, and this allowed me to more comfortably setup the front sound stage since the listening area was now using the length of the room to its advantage.

While I was rearranging my whole living room, I decided to throw together a HTPC out of some old computer parts I had around, and that is the new little black box that is sitting next to the SM450 on the right side. Currently I have a small monitor placed by the HTPC while I continue to configure it, but I already have the computer setup for remote access so I can just login from my main PC and manage the content from there. Right now the biggest function I have planned for this PC is music streaming. I'm a Pandora One customer, so I have the Pandora One gadget setup on there, and I have my local music being shared over the network as well so I can use a standard music player and play my songs over the DefTech's. I suppose Netflix and Hulu should stream okay on the HTPC as well, but I'm not sure how the aging hardware inside will handle the High Def content. When I get around to it I'll probably pick up an RF/Bluetooth keyboard with a touchpad built-in, or maybe one of those motion air mice that you essentially wave around like a Wii controller (cool but expensive).

Also while doing all the rearranging, I decided to finally take out my two additional ProMonitor800's and I mounted them on the walls as my Surround's, and moved the other two (on the stands) to the Surround-Back positions. When I had the setup the short length of the room I just setup the 5.1 because it sounded good enough, and honestly I just couldn't be bothered with mounting etc while I was initially moving in. Now that I had more room and time, I decided to do it right and get the fruits of 7.1 once again.

Well, that's about it for now. Thanks for reading! Here are a slew of new pictures to check out. Let me know what you think (or if you have any questions or recommendations) by replying in the thread.

TV: Panasonic TH-50PZ700U Plasma
Amplifier: Emotiva XPA-3
Receiver: Denon AVR-2808ci
Speakers:
Definitive Technology Studio Monitor 450's (L/R)
Definitive Technology C/L/R 2002 (C)
Definitive Technology Pro Sub 800 (SW)
Definitive Technology Pro Monitors x4 (Rears)
Power Conditioner: Panamax 5300MX Power Conditioner
Remote: Logitech Harmony 890 + Sony PS3 BR Remote