The Official Energy Speakers Thread

[cfurtado]

Thx to everyone =D
Im having so much fun trying stuff out

The a5-350,i had last year music,since i bought a home HT i added it...i know i'd be better off with two V10,who knows maybe it's a future buy

That be awesome BigAL87,im from Mirabel though,right beside blainville...

Lets say i call the futureshop guy,what will he do more then u guys r telling me,because everything thing seems simple...

[cfurtado]

Originally Posted by Cpt_Dylan_Hunt

Ya it is eh. I can't beleive an 18 year old could even afford such a setup.

And ya, I second BigA87 helping you. Makes sense to me.

hahahaha lol
Well Sixflags LaRonde,pays well for a summer job

[cfurtado]

Originally Posted by SSLAYERR

That's interesting, 130 watts per channel is plenty & really you shouldn't have to calibrate your HT (AMP) setup, my HT is set to 0db on all channels & it sounds incredible, now if you've had the set up for a short period of time you should allow for the speakers to break in for a few weeks but if you still aint happy then get futureshop to send someone over & perhaps calibrate your set up.

I think its because my basement is really open...
lol if it was my house id build a wall,but i can't

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by cfurtado

Thx to everyone =D
Im having so much fun trying stuff out

The a5-350,i had last year music,since i bought a home HT i added it...i know i'd be better off with two V10,who knows maybe it's a future buy

That be awesome BigAL87,im from Mirabel though,right beside blainville...

Lets say i call the futureshop guy,what will he do more then u guys r telling me,because everything thing seems simple...

My friend use to live in blainville, I live in the west in Vaudreuil, I work by the 13 bro in St-Laurent. From my work it would be a walk in the park to go to your place and have this thing setup. Look it's not all that difficult, I dunno the Yammy 6190 all that good but I sure can figure things out one my friends has the 6150 lower end model and my other friend has the 6090 previous generation.

Are u french by any chance?

[cfurtado]

Originally Posted by BigAl87

My friend use to live in blainville, I live in the west in Vaudreuil, I work by the 13 bro in St-Laurent. From my work it would be a walk in the park to go to your place and have this thing setup. Look it's not all that difficult, I dunno the Yammy 6190 all that good but I sure can figure things out one my friends has the 6150 lower end model and my other friend has the 6090 previous generation.

Are u french by any chance?

Iam lol im way better in french.

[Cpt_Dylan_Hunt]

Originally Posted by cfurtado

I think its because my basement is really open...
lol if it was my house id build a wall,but i can't

It will probably be hard to get good bass response in a room like that. What are the measurements?

My v10 is fantastic for everything in my 14X15 ht room, but for example in something like a 30X25 room, even dual v10s would be lacking for HT/movie performance.

[cfurtado]

Originally Posted by Cpt_Dylan_Hunt

It will probably be hard to get good bass response in a room like that. What are the measurements?

My v10 is fantastic for everything in my 14X15 ht room, but for example in something like a 30X25 room, even dual v10s would be lacking for HT/movie performance.

The basement is like a U
so where my system is,its about 14 wide by like 60,its all open behind...

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by cfurtado

The basement is like a U
so where my system is,its about 14 wide by like 60,its all open behind...

60 your not joking there, this house is long as hell. wow no wonder you can't get enough bass.

[cfurtado]

Originally Posted by BigAl87

60 your not joking there, this house is long as hell. wow no wonder you can't get enough bass.

o gosh anyone knows a cheap contractor LOLL
ugh

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by cfurtado

o gosh anyone knows a cheap contractor LOLL
ugh

LIisten g2g but all I can say is maybe by building a nice stand for your ED sub and position it startegically in the room we could get some decent Bass. In your case we would probably have to find the place where you get the most bass out of the sub since it's really hard to find a decent spot.

[cfurtado]

Originally Posted by BigAl87

LIisten g2g but all I can say is maybe by building a nice stand for your ED sub and position it startegically in the room we could get some decent Bass. In your case we would probably have to find the place where you get the most bass out of the sub since it's really hard to find a decent spot.

Well Thx buddy 4 the advice
Have yourself a great night.

[callas01]

well congrats Cfurtado, you have a nice system, too bad at 18 I wasn't into HT...... but I love my C-series...

[callas01]

Originally Posted by BigAl87

LIisten g2g but all I can say is maybe by building a nice stand for your ED sub and position it startegically in the room we could get some decent Bass. In your case we would probably have to find the place where you get the most bass out of the sub since it's really hard to find a decent spot.

Originally Posted by cfurtado

Well Thx buddy 4 the advice
Have yourself a great night.

Leave your beastly eD sub up front where you have it and then move the V10 to the rear that way bass will be coming from front and back and see if you prefer that better. Centered would be ideal, but if you cant do that then try opposite corners. That should help smooth out the bass and fill the room more evenly.

[Cpt_Dylan_Hunt]

Originally Posted by callas01

well congrats Cfurtado, you have a nice system, too bad at 18 I wasn't into HT...... but I love my C-series...

When I was 18 and when I managed to ever get $200 in my hands, it would be for 1/8th of weed, a case of beer, and a night out at the strip club!

Buying a $2000 pair of front speakers + entire HT setup never even entered my mind. Nor did I ever have even close to that kind of money. I think HT is more popular now though.

How times have changed!

[curse]

some people just see a nice, honest hobby. Something you can see and hear the difference with every upgrade. I use to be big time in computers. But the market for them is just so fast.. a system is out-of-date a month later. Where is the long-lasting value? the way i seen it for me personally was either have a badass gaming computer that will become obsolete within a year or a nice ht that will last me however long i need.

[cfurtado]

Originally Posted by Cpt_Dylan_Hunt

When I was 18 and when I managed to ever get $200 in my hands, it would be for 1/8th of weed, a case of beer, and a night out at the strip club!

Buying a $2000 pair of front speakers + entire HT setup never even entered my mind. Nor did I ever have even close to that kind of money. I think HT is more popular now though.

How times have changed!

hahahaha lol,dont worry i still have my fun,im not locked in my house with my system
All this is because of the disney movies that i went to see at the cinema when i was a kid.

[cfurtado]

Originally Posted by callas01

Leave your beastly eD sub up front where you have it and then move the V10 to the rear that way bass will be coming from front and back and see if you prefer that better. Centered would be ideal, but if you cant do that then try opposite corners. That should help smooth out the bass and fill the room more evenly.

I'll have fun today im sure
Thanls to everyone seriously you guys are awesome

[Bluray_ne1]

Originally Posted by cfurtado

lol Thx
Took me like 2 summers to save money and clearly decide what i wanted lol,i was like at futurshop every day
Now that its home,i have no clue how to get the full potential.

Yep, quite impressive! Congrats on that setup. You're gonna freak on the improvement when you get it all dialed in. When I finally got mine dialed in correctly, the improvement was phenomenal.

Definitely set all your speakers to "small" and let the sub do it's job.

[callas01]

Originally Posted by Cpt_Dylan_Hunt

When I was 18 and when I managed to ever get $200 in my hands, it would be for 1/8th of weed, a case of beer, and a night out at the strip club!

Buying a $2000 pair of front speakers + entire HT setup never even entered my mind. Nor did I ever have even close to that kind of money. I think HT is more popular now though.

How times have changed!

Yeah, that sounds about correct (or all 200 on a half ounce).... my goodness I have laughed so hard at true honesty in a while....

[Yeha-Noha]

Originally Posted by Cpt_Dylan_Hunt

YPAO didn't do that for me. Although what it did do was equally as horrible. The only way I can get my speakers to sound as I think they should is to use that graphic equalizer. Using the treble control doesn't work at all. Stresses the wrong frequencies, although Im not sure whih ones.

All that I know is, if the speaker is set up properly, there is no detials in the sound that are close to COMPLETELY missing, and that's how it sounds when YPAO sets it up.

My speakers are setup exactly according to the C-series manual.

I fed my test signals into each speaker individually through the mulit-channel inputs on the back of my AVR. That by passes Yamaha's DSP and bass management too. The signals are then passed on to my external power amps. All my AVR is doing during the testing is acting as a volume control and setting up the proper delay time according to the distances I measured from the SPL meter to the speakers. I tested my speakers this way to make sure I bypass as much of Yamaha's processing as I can get away with.

YPAO emphasizes the 5 KHz to 10 K Hz range clear and simple. I set up my Tannoy Speakers on top of my subs, which placed them about the same location and height as my C-300s. YPAO gave the same result for the Tannoys, boosting the highs + 6.0 db in the 6K - 8 k Hz range. The Tannoys are higher end than Energy C-series too. It's not the speakers or their setup. My SPL meter doesn't lie. The speaker response in my HT room is much flatter with the equalizer off. When YPAO is switched on, the highs are too dominate and overbearing making not only movies sound awful but music too. So, I leave the Equalizer setting on off. It sounds more natural that way.

Since I have external power amplifiers, I'll be buying a Emotiva UMC-1 AUDIO-VIDEO PROCESSOR after they become available. They are reasonable priced and don't cost much more than a Yamaha entry level AVR. I expect better quality from Emotiva and I don't mind paying for it either.