efesbe's HT Setup

[efesbe]

Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum and this would be my first post. Just thought I'd start it off with a showcase of a humble setup. It's the best I can design with my home but not entirely ideal acoustically. Instead of making you all search for what I have, I'll put it up on this post. Starting with more critical components.
1. Plasma - Pioneer Elite Pro 1120HD (purchased for $7500 in 2005 when 50" was considered "huge" which you can now buy for probably >$1000 . Well at least it came with the TV stand. It was the very first piece of furniture in my new house and a chair, wife wasn't happy sitting on the floor)

2. Receiver - Pioneer Elite VSX-72TXV (still searching for an AVR that supports DTS-HD MA and TrueHD. Any recommendations. Considering another Elite, Denon, or Onkyo)

3. PS3 - Upset that I can't bitstream. I thought it was supposed to be the best BD player around.

4. Monster Power Conditioner - Does it really improve anything or just for looks. Since I didn't notice any improvements, I guess it's just for looks.

5. MISC - DVD upconvert, HD cable box w/DVR, VCR, DVD-Recorder, and lots of dust.

6. Speakers:

*L/R: AV123/Onix Piano Rosewood Strata Mini's (doesn't really match the rest of my setup but I was given a really good deal and that finish was just stunning to me at least. These suckers are heavy at 97 pounds each)
*Center: AV123 x-voce (open baffle on top for a much more open soundstage. (xmas gift from wife but I made the purchase)
*Subwoofer: AV123 MFW-15 (it's currently hidden behind the TV stand inside the useless "media niche". Also heavy at about 100 pounds)
*Surrounds: Boston Acoustics VRS (ceiling mounted because I got the home prewired)

7. Cabling - Monster Cables and Monoprice. Monoprice makes excellent cables for those that don't want to spend all their money on cables. The monster cables speaker wires were handed down by my father along with my previous setup (Boston Acoustics VR950, VR920 and my current VRS surrounds)

I guess that's all. Would appreciate any comments and let try to keep the clean but honest if that's even possible. I know, I know... my setup was not dusted before the pictures but try to look past the dust.

The media niche actually made the entire area difficult to work with because I refused to buy a TV that fits inside limiting the size that I really want. No way will I let the home determine what my components will be. Who knows, I may move to a better home..yeah right...not possible here in S.D. CA.
Let me tell you that the Sub is inside that media niche behind the plasma and sounding pretty good. I was told to take it out of there but WAF will not allow me

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