Goodkat's living room

[mr.goodkat]

greetings from Turkey.
I am a cinema enthusiast and new to the forum. I decided to upgrade my HT setup couple of months ago and I though why wouldnt I share it with forum members who might also give me ideas for better results.

first of all, I live in an apartment and dont have a dedicated cinema room. so my objective was having the best layout without compromising the comfy look and feel of the room. the living room is 430 feet square and most of it occupied with seating and HT

so my setup is as below
Emotiva XPR-5 Power
Marantz AV8801 Pre/Pro
Klipsch RF-7II fronts
Klipsch RC-52II center
Klipsch RF82-II surround
40" Sammy panel
playstation for blu-rays
egreat android media box





once I realized I spent some bucks for the sound, I noticed my screen looked tiny between my speakers so last week I decided to buy 120" Elite Screen Vmax2 screen and Epson TW5910 projector. (better photos to be uploaded)
installation in progress...


I thought for a second that my wife was going to moan about how big the screen is but viola she liked it. the funniest thing is my cat wasnt even looking at the sammy screen now he is watching all the movies with high attention, I sometimes open nat geo and he loves watching big cats on the screen )

very recent update, I changed my Ecosse RCA cables between XPR5 and AV8801 with Blue Jeans Belden 1800f XLR cables and I am amazed with the results. I will install my speaker cables from blue jeans within this week and hope they will sound nice as well. cables not organised well but I will do it once I change my stand


so whats next step?
-my stand is cheap ikea stand which is not functional at all. the way emotiva and Marantz look bothers me at the moment so I will have a custom stand designed by my wife. I ordered set of spikes for it and probably it will be finished in couple of weeks.


-I ordered Oppo 105 as blu-ray player which I will have end of next week. I will listen all my music and run blu-rays thru Oppo

-My sub is very old and unable to keep up with my klipschs. I am on a hunt for Sunfire HRS-12. (open for any recommendations)

Montster Signature HTS 5100 surge protection and voltage regulator to keep everything running smooth

Klipsch RC-64II

[Show spoiler]as it has been illustrated in my stand design

as I already started to feel lack of depth in conversations with movies.

I really liked the sound of Emotiva and Marantz av8801 and in longer run I would like to add XPR-2 to drive fronts and add 2 surround back speakers to upgrade from 5.1 to 7.1

new to forum and community, appreciate your comments and thoughts, more photos are in my ht gallery and to be posted.

regards