rear speaker question

[Speed3driver]

Hey guys, Im not a hardcore audio guy, but I do like having nice equipment and do hear the difference. I used to be a HTIB guy, and changed that a while ago with when I bought a pioneer receiver and a the polk audio RM6750 speaker package about 2 years ago. I am starting to replace my speakers, started out with the front L/R switching to the Infinity P362's which I am very happy with. My birthday is on Friday, so my wife is getting me the Infinity PC-350 center channel speaker. So that leaves me the somewhat weak 8" polk sub(which I will be later swapping out) and the polk satellinte rears. I recently went to Fry's and due to not being able to pass up a great deal, they had the Yamaha NS225's on clearance from $199ea down to $49ea. So I bought a pair and plan on using for the new rears. Here is my dilemma, I think the polks do fine for the rear, and am thinking of posting the yamahas on craigslist or seling them to buy the upgraded sub. Or do you think the benefits of them as rear speakers would be worth keeping them. The sub sounds decent, but I know there is much better out there. What do you thing, could use some help deciding here.

Thanks guys,

Daniel in Seattle

[HAMP]

I'm a little confused, but I'll give it a try. Are you saying you like the polks better then the new Yamaha NS225's? And you don't want them anymore or/and you don't really hear the difference between the Polk’s and Yamaha NS225's?

Well with the Polk’s you can now have a nice 7.1 instead of the 5.1 you had.

The real problem here is upgradities, this is always going to happen. You have the speakers and you are the one who should be telling us which ones you like best.


What subs are you interested in getting? Do you have a budget?

[Speed3driver]

I have decided to not break the seal on the yamahas, just in case I opt to sell them for subwoofer money. My wife doesnt see eye to eye with me on dropping a lot of money on new speakers. So knowing that the rears dont put out a lot of detailed loud sound, would I hear a big differenct in replacing the polk satellites with the yamaha towers?

[HAMP]

Its true surround speakers do not put out alot of loud noise. The surround are more of an ambient sound. Were you tired of the Polk surrounds?

If you feel you want more, then keep the Yamaha's, but if the polk rm6750 were fine before then keep them. Are your new towers over powering your rears? If the new fronts are overpowering then keep the Yamaha's

It also just depends on how you watch movies; I rather turn mine up and seriously get immersed into whatever movie I am watching. I want the sound coming from the rear to seem just as powerful as the fronts. Some people have a very low volume. Which are you?

[JBL4645]

Morning there

But if you turn the surrounds way, way up the balance of sound image panning from the as whole or individual left and right will no longer match in frequency level.

It would be LARGE sound moving from surrounds to tiny small sound on the fronts and vice versa.

I can turn my surrounds up without this issue being far too noticeable with the use of using separates all-around I can feed the surrounds from AVR into an (audio limiter compressor) turn the level up so the softer ambiance is hyper yet when large sounds come around its within the matching frequency response as if it was ran normally without only the softer sounds would remain soft.

Furthermore if I can use multiple arrays of surrounds same all-around wired in parallel without any self destruction for several years, then I don’t see why you or anyone else can.

My room is quite literally surrounded.

Also frequency response needs to done in real-time (RTA) Real Time Analyzer using a an all-channel pink noise, where I mute one of many channels look at the response then onto the next speaker by muting the left then un-muting the centre and so on and so on until the tone is even.

Different speakers are going to have different signature tone. I bet when you play your auto pink noise to cycle around in your room the tone doesn’t match up when it leaves Left front the passes onto the centre, until it reaches the Right as this the common misleading a Hi-Fi sales man will trick you into, you get the idea.