What is everyone running for Home Audio?

[ss3079 5,000+ posts]

I'm just getting back into Home Audio and am looking for suggestions. My current set up is pretty decent, but I'm looking for something new. I was looking at Denon, Adire, Infinity, MTX, and a couple others. Building my own speakers is also a possibility.

- Steve

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[ss3079 5,000+ posts]

I was thinking of going with dual 10's or 12's from Adire...

- Steve

 

[97dakota 10+ year member]

hey, my dads not mine, so i don't get flamed.

54in mitsubishi big screen, bose center channel, kappa towers with powered woofer. marantz reciever, bose rear speakers, klipsch powered 12 I believe, maybe ten.

sounds **** nice. all monster cables. needs a little more bass for me but he likes it so what can you do.

 

[dbhittin 5,000+ posts]

Get a Denon Reciever for Sure. Best Out there. For Speakers, Get Tower speakers. Dont get Little Surround sound ones.

 

[97dakota 10+ year member]

marantz is a very nice unit as well

 

[jer_stud56 10+ year member]

i have:

300W 1978 Receiver //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

10" KLH 120W powered sub

12" MTX 4000 in a big box i made myself

2 speakers that include as a pair:

2 16" subs (1 in each speaker) - 2 ports for each sub

2 8" midbass from radio shack (hey they arent that bad, 1 in each speaker)

4 tweeters (2 in each speaker)

4 super tweeters (2 in each speaker, 2 of them do not work)

2 other speakers that include as a pair:

2 8" subs (1 in each speaker)

4 midbass (2 in each speaker)

and a port for the sub in each speaker

2 other speakers that include as a pair:

2 8" subs (1 in each speaker)

4 midbass (2 in each speaker

27" Samsui tv w/ remote

5 disc CD player from RCA

PS2 for video games and DVD

and once in awhile i bring the VCR in to watch a movie (like my skateboardin vid) //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

thats all i got maybe ill get pics sometime lol (i have pics of the 2 subs, cd player, and receiver)

pe@ce

 

[Heresy 10+ year member]

Planning on making my own tower speakers with the following components if it works:

1 Vifa D25AG-35 tweeter

1 Vifa P13MH-00 midrange

1 Adire Tempest woofer

The only ***** it seems is the whole passive xover vs active xover. Does anyone have any experience with making cheap, active xovers? Or should I just rely on a passive xover that is (resonably) easier to make?

One last note, if anyone can direct me to freeware that can plot the frequency response of all drivers, please do so. I like LspCAD but the price is pretty high for just a (new-found) hobby.

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[Matador 10+ year member]

i wished i had something =(

either way, are denon good? for sure?

 

[jlaine 10+ year member]

Custom designed home theater towers.

Dual Peerless CSC-X 10" vented, tuned to 24 hz

Dual Seas P17RC midwoofers, sealed @ .33 cubic feet each

Single Seas Excel T25-001 tweeter. MTM alignment.

Power comes from all over the place, from my regular receiver to car audio amps to tube drivers to pro sound amps, all depends on what I want to try out.

Behringer DSP8024 dual 31 band EQ plus dual 3 band parametric / RTA / noise gate/ clip limiter as primary processor.

27" Sony Trinitron tv. (very rarely used)

Couple other things in the works.

 

[ss3079 5,000+ posts]

Originally posted by jlaine Custom designed home theater towers.

Dual Peerless CSC-X 10" vented, tuned to 24 hz

Dual Seas P17RC midwoofers, sealed @ .33 cubic feet each

Single Seas Excel T25-001 tweeter. MTM alignment.

 

 

Power comes from all over the place, from my regular receiver to car audio amps to tube drivers to pro sound amps, all depends on what I want to try out.

 

Behringer DSP8024 dual 31 band EQ plus dual 3 band parametric / RTA / noise gate/ clip limiter as primary processor.

 

27" Sony Trinitron tv. (very rarely used)

 

Couple other things in the works.

Thats who I was looking for to reply

What do you think of Adire products, as far as home audio goes? Worth it? Or do you suggest something else?

- Steve

 

[jlaine 10+ year member]

Originally posted by ss3079 Thats who I was looking for to reply

 

What do you think of Adire products, as far as home audio goes? Worth it? Or do you suggest something else?

 

- Steve

For the price, they are extremely hard to beat. Especially the DIY kits. When you factor in what it'll cost to build a crossover, test, tweak, and get it 'just right,' as opposed to some of adire's kits, you are usually faced with the reality that you are fighting an uphill battle.

You can get wonderful results with DIY, you may end up spending more with research and whatnot than what a proven DIY design from adire can give you though.

I spent $150 a side on crossover parts alone, because I refused to have anything less than Goertz inductors and Chateauroux capacitors.

I can't stress it hard enough, if you are going DIY, crossover-crossover-crossover.

Again, crossover.

It can make a 20 dollar set of speakers sound like gold, or a thousand dollar set sound like coal. The crossover is by far, where it is at.

And a new entertainment center I threw together today... just to add to the list. Going to disassemble and break out the remaining Imron 5000 I have from my towers and paint the shelves here early Jan..

 

[Heresy 10+ year member]

Originally posted by jlaine Custom designed home theater towers.

Dual Peerless CSC-X 10" vented, tuned to 24 hz

Dual Seas P17RC midwoofers, sealed @ .33 cubic feet each

Single Seas Excel T25-001 tweeter. MTM alignment.

 

 

Power comes from all over the place, from my regular receiver to car audio amps to tube drivers to pro sound amps, all depends on what I want to try out.

 

Behringer DSP8024 dual 31 band EQ plus dual 3 band parametric / RTA / noise gate/ clip limiter as primary processor.

 

27" Sony Trinitron tv. (very rarely used)

 

Couple other things in the works.

I looked up those drivers in my handy dandy Madisound catalogue . I was thinking about using Vifas in my first loudspeaker project because of their price and (a few)reviews. Then using the Tempest for greater SPL(which I'm leaning towards). Can you give me any thoughts on this proposed setup? Also, are their any resources that go over active xover design?

I have a basic, limited electronic knowledge but not nearly the depth of understanding most of the more complicated schamatics.

 

[ss3079 5,000+ posts]

Seem's to me that I will be planning my system around Adire.

Nice new center....Ive got to get around and do one of those soon.

Anyways, I'll do a quick diagram and get back to you guys.

Thanks,

- Steve

 

[2theMaxx21 10+ year member]

I have a Pioneer Elite 60" HD big screen

Pioneer Elite VSX-49TXi receiver

Pioneer Elite i-link DVD player

Paradigm Studio: center, mains, side surrounds, rear surrounds (for Dolby 7.1), and 12" powered sub.

It's a sweet sounding system!

 

[paikiah 5,000+ posts]

did a search witht he keyword seas (as in the speakers) and I came here...

although, it's been so long, here's my list...

Sony ES-505 (was it? so long ago, i don't remember the model anymore)

Quad 66 pre-amp

Quad 606 power amp (very small, but very powerful, clean)

Infinity 66 speakers

Monster M-1 Cables

Monster interconnects

Denon 3-head tape deck

Kenwood FM receiver

anywa, anyone familiar with SEAS drivers? GOtta open a new thread on this one..

 

[denim 5,000+ posts]

Techniques, Harmon Kardon, and Cambridge sound works

 

[denim 5,000+ posts]

X????????

 

[B&R Innovations]

One of the nice Sony Recievers

Panasonic DVD

JVC SVHS VCR

technics cd player

and a nice samsung 13"

a set of JBL Tower Studios

and MA Audio Tweets (since the studios tweets are like...not what I had hopedfor)

and 2 15 KICKERS for when my RA is out

(on a JVC home amp)

Hey i'm in a dorm

so cant go too nuts

 

[avistar23 10+ year member]

fisher reciver 2 fisher 12's another fisher reciver 2 15's another fisher reciver 2 8's... some other tower with 10's / 12's a lot of tweets some mids by fisher ... FISHER is no longer around but when they were OMG i have one of there 10's and hit 130 with it and 200 watts **** i love there stuff. oh and all the subs are ported.

Gemini OMX-3501 mixer .. some cd player ...Fisher tape deck.. Fisher turn table..

Fisher EQ

and a snoy surrond/ DVD player

 

[Audio N00B 10+ year member]

custom floor speakers:

2 8" woofers

1 5" midrange

1 3" midrange

1 1" tweeter

custom center speaker:

4 3" midrange

1" tweeter

custom bipolar rears:

2 3" midrange

2 5" midrange

2 1" tweeters

2 sunfire sigs (one was dads, he gave to me..other i bought used //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif)

770 watt sony 7.1 reciever

denon DVD/CD player

sony vcr

ps2

42" philips plasma screen

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