so who here uses their home theater to play music also?

[commandercool]

ok so i know a bunch of you guys tweak your home theater set-ups to the best possible specification possible for your movie viewing pleasure..but how many of you use it to play music and crank it up

[JJ]

Of course, until I get a separate 2-channel rig!

[Sith]

any audio played in my house goes through my receiver....Unless I'm playing
video games in the bedroom...

[naturephoto1]

I do. I don't have the room not to at this point. But,mine is set up as a 2 channel and home theater. I will have to decide what I will do when I move into or build a house in the next year or so.

Rich

[DiverSpear]

I use mine for audio I just change from position 1 (movies) to position 2 (music) and all the settings change accordingly.

[Cadrian]

I love having party's and get togethers at my place.... 7.2 sounds great with music. I usually put together a MP3 party mix and try to shake pictures off the walls. I know my neighbors, which I cant even see through the woods have asked how much fun my night was considering they could make out everything I was playing

I am thinking of adding some outdoor speakers as well.... I already own some I just gotta set them up sometime.

I am also planning to get a Optical out sound card for my PC and run it to my Receiver. Get rid of the MP3 Discs and just play music straight through Itunes.
Even thinking of getting a purely music PC for it.

[commandercool]

^thats the best way to go,i have everything on my laptop and i bought an creative external usb sound card so i have everything in mp3's on my computer just click and ta-da instant music goes straight to my home theater speakers

[JJ]

Originally Posted by commandercool

^thats the best way to go,i have everything on my laptop and i bought an creative external usb sound card so i have everything in mp3's on my computer just click and ta-da instant music goes straight to my home theater speakers

Isn't the same thing achieved through using a 3.5mm cable? Or are there differences? I mean, I still get stereo sound. Am I missing something?

[commandercool]

^its kinda the same but with my logitechs using just one 3.5mm cables means i gotta use the dolby pro logic 2 setting,and i hate it,so i bought the sound card which has the 3 jacks that output 5.1 center and sub/rear/front it gives a much cleaner and crisper sound than just using one 3.5mm cable and upmixing it to 5.1..i rather have the dedicated outputs lol i'm kinda anal like that

[Sith]

I just plug my ipod into my 360/ps3

[commandercool]

^i did that a couple of times but no equalizer setting on the 360 or xbox :/

[Sith]

Originally Posted by commandercool

^i did that a couple of times but no equalizer setting on the 360 or xbox :/

so.....there are in your receiver right....

[commandercool]

i don't technically have a receiver lol my system is in my sig,i just usually play music through windows media player and output it to my logitechs

[cartman781]

I only have the 1 setup, so yes

[Sith]

Originally Posted by commandercool

i don't technically have a receiver lol my system is in my sig,i just usually play music through windows media player and output it to my logitechs

oh, my bad....you should get one...

[commandercool]

Originally Posted by Sith

oh, my bad....you should get one...

i will sooner or later but what i have now is more than enough,but once i get the funds i'm definately getting something way better...damn college

[Gremal]

Due to living in a two-BR house with a small living room visible from the front door (where I do not want to put my gear), I had to integrate my music and HT system into one. But I have not sacrificed quality for two-channel or multichannel.

[Nameless Evil]

Started doing this a few years ago. It took about 3 months to completely digitize my music collection. I have 2 250gb USB drives (1 is a backup). I love that my music collection is now portable. Now, I mostly listen to music through the xbox's media center.

[guitarist155]

yep, surround disks are the best

[Sith]

Originally Posted by Gremal

Due to living in a two-BR house with a small living room visible from the front door (where I do not want to put my gear), I had to integrate my music and HT system into one. But I have not sacrificed quality for two-channel or multichannel.

You need to invest in some good firearms Gremal....

My 9mm with the laser sighting would let you put that gear whereever you want...A nicely trained dog would help to...