Bkbluray's Home Theater Thread

[bkbluray]

Welcome to my HT Thread!

After being patient I was finally able to make some much-needed upgrades!

Latest upgrades:

Panasonic GT30 55" 3D TV
New Reclining La-z-boy Couch
Emotiva 10" Subwoofer

Thank you for visiting!

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Hey guys. I've been on the forum for 3 years now (hard to believe) and finally I was able to post some HT pics.

I welcome any suggestions or ideas you might have for me. I just ordered some zip ties from Monoprice along with a shorter subwoofer cable to help with the cable mess, per one suggestion on my HT page.

Let me know what you think!

[bkbluray]

I will be adding more screenshots soon.

[bz1080p]

Welcome to the HT thread

[bkbluray]

Originally Posted by bz1080p

Welcome to the HT thread

Thank you sir

Love the bird santa avatar btw

[bz1080p]

Originally Posted by bkbluray

Thank you sir

Love the bird santa avatar btw

Thank you
His name is Zoro and he spends about an hour a day watching TV with me

[bkbluray]

Originally Posted by bz1080p

Thank you
His name is Zoro and he spends about an hour a day watching TV with me

Awesome! Me and my wife have about 15 fish - that's about it for now. Once we can get a house, we'll probably get a dog (unfortunately ). I like dogs, but they can be tiresome if you just want to sit down and watch a movie.

[Fors*]

Let me ask, but it doesn't appear you are straight on to the TV from that one chair? Your gear is actually quite nice, so you are pretty good there. Cleaning up the room (wire management) of some kind would go a long way towards making that room much more inviting. Any chance you could put those surrounds next to the chair on the wall, up maybe a foot or 2 above your head? Or could you center the TV on the wall it is against right now and then you could spread out your fronts more, giving you a wider front soundstage and better AQ? But for someone just out of college, you have more than I did.

[bkbluray]

Originally Posted by Fors*

Let me ask, but it doesn't appear you are straight on to the TV from that one chair? Your gear is actually quite nice, so you are pretty good there. Cleaning up the room (wire management) of some kind would go a long way towards making that room much more inviting. Any chance you could put those surrounds next to the chair on the wall, up maybe a foot or 2 above your head? Or could you center the TV on the wall it is against right now and then you could spread out your fronts more, giving you a wider front soundstage and better AQ? But for someone just out of college, you have more than I did.

Great suggestions! Yeah, I will admit, I am pretty spoiled by nice gear right out of college due to a parent who is a professor at the college I went to. Cheap tuition!

I could probably put those speakers on the wall, though I live in an apartment, so not sure if that would work too well. I might either get higher stands or, wait until I get a house and then use the mounts in my HT there.

Great idea about centering the TV. I might just be able to slide the whole entertainment center over - I'm hoping I won't have to take each piece off...

And agreed, the whole room would look cleaner and more inviting with a clean up and some serious wire management.

[bkbluray]

I'm at work right now - so excited to get home so I can make some improvements!!

[Spurrier Sucks]

Looks nice. Fors made some nice suggestions, other than that and wire management you should be good to go.

[bkbluray]

Originally Posted by Spurrier Sucks

Looks nice. Fors made some nice suggestions, other than that and wire management you should be good to go.

Awesome!

I'm definitely glad I posted this one here - I love getting suggestions from fellow HT addicts

[bkbluray]

Just moved the TV to the middle of the wall, per Fors* suggestion. I spread the front speakers out to either end of the wall, placed the sub in between the left speaker and TV stand, and ran Audyssey MultEQ again.

WOW! Big difference! I will put some more pics up sometime this weekend.

I watched The Incredible Hulk (newest) and it was unbelievable. Still in awe after that last battle!

[bkbluray]

Here's the latest on what I've been doing with my HT. I added a white bookcase on the right side, and was able to place the right surround speaker on top of it, giving it some much needed height. I took the short stand from the surround right speaker, stuck it on top of the short stand of the surround back right speaker, and raised that up as well. I moved the surround left speaker on top of a bookcase on that side as well, and now all my surround speakers are at ear level or above. Big difference!

[bz1080p]

Morning BK
I see you got the Mummy Trilogy! Good buy!

[bkbluray]

Originally Posted by bz1080p

Morning BK
I see you got the Mummy Trilogy! Good buy!

Morning bz!
Yeah - couldn't believe the price - $15.99 that one day. Should be arriving today or tomorrow!

[bz1080p]

Originally Posted by bkbluray

Morning bz!
Yeah - couldn't believe the price - $15.99 that one day. Should be arriving today or tomorrow!

The first two
The third was hard for me to watch but it does have some excellent LFE

[bkbluray]

Originally Posted by bz1080p

The first two
The third was hard for me to watch but it does have some excellent LFE

Haha, that's what I've been hearing. Like another poster said, it was like buying the first two movies for $8.00 apiece and getting the third free I am hoping I'll get a demo scene or two out of it though.

[bz1080p]

Hump Day BK, have a good one!

[bkbluray]

Originally Posted by bz1080p

Hump Day BK, have a good one!

I did! Was a pretty good day. Hope yours was good as well! (Sorry, just saw this)

[talstarone]

Hey Bkbluray.That is one awesome system you have put together.
Looks great(And I am sure performs amazingly)..