home theater

I’ve just found this forum page and am hoping someone can help me out. I’m building my first home theatre in my basement. The space I’m using is the left side of a now open layout and the right side has the bar and pool table. I’m wanting to start with a 5.2.4 setup with the ability to upgrade...

History Earlier this year I had some spare time and decided to move my home cinema from a separate smaller room to my larger living room. Since I live alone with my kids in our house I could do what the F****K I want.... so I did. A note here: I could not even put up a painting on the wall and...

Hello all! I've spent the last few weeks putting together this set up for the movie room of my Dorm. The plan is to get a new receiver, speaker system, and 4k projector for under $2,100 total. The equipment I have selected is: BenQ TK800 4k Projector Pioneer VSX-LX303 9.2 Channel 4k Polk 5.1...

Hello all. I am new to the site, and this is my first post on AVF. So thanks in advance for any and all feedback, My apologies if this is not the right area to post this topic. I would like to conceptualize a 7.1.4 setup. However, I am on a budget. It's not crazy-restrictive, but it's not a...

i know you can use the magic remote basically as a universal remote and i have it controlling the set top box no problem. however, my home theater is an old sony home theater in a box (from a long long time ago). supports HDMI but not 4k and probably not hdmi 2.0. So i am running Xbox into HDMI...

I'm planning to build a home theater sound system with the Yamaha RV-V685, and I think I'm going to go with these speakers: Polk Audio Signature Series S10 Speakers x 4 Polk Audio Signature Series S30 Center x 1 However, I have doubts about the subwoofer. I know that I should buy something...

I'm trying to build a sound system for the living room, but I'm a new to audio, and I'm relying on reviews and comments to make purchase, and I'm don't if I'm making the right choice. In my research I narrowed down to the Denon AVR-S940H and Yamaha RX-V685, the problem is that both models have...

i don't know the placement of them to make my home theater looks best without worsening the performance (blocking the ust or center channel not shooting at the listening position).. thank you.

Hello All, new to the forum and I'm here because I need help. Ok, system overview: Samsung flat screen, Yamaha RXV383 home theater system and Amazon FireTV box. All connected with HDMI cables. No cable tv, but connected to the internet via Cox Cable modem and ethernet. The Issue: when I click...

Im struggling to find a list of amps that have this feature. I would like to add an amp for music connected to my main speakers that can also be used with my AVR for movies in surround sound. Ive looked in the forums but its mainly old kit that now not available. Does anyone have any...

Onkyo TX-SR606 7.1-Channel Home Theater Receiver excellent condition. Comes with remote. Smoke free home. https://www.eu.onkyo.com/en/products/tx-sr606-43407.html?tab=Stage £65 delivered.

Hello guys, I've got a powered subwoofer and this 5.1 home theater which provides power for all the speakers including a passive subwoofer (50w per channel). I want to connect my powered subwoofer on this receiver but I don't know if it's possible. Is there any kind of adapter or what? There's a...

I’m building a home theater in new house. (It’s my 3rd but last). So the room will be 16X30 with risers on first 15ft then 7.5 riser then floor level. It will have wet bar in back, no windows and entrance in back left side wall. I’m thinking of going with a9.2 receiver with buttkickers. Any...

Hello, I'm new to this forum, discovered it because I was considering selling my Sony AW15 projector. I figured I'd reach out and see if there is anybody interested. We just didn't use it that much and all in all in decent shape. It has the power cord but no remote. I just bought an extra...

Hi all I want to buy an affordable and good quality home theater for a room of 15 to 20 meters My player is MINIX U9-H and My movies have «DTS-HD» «Dolby TrueHD» and «Dolby Atmos» sound My current home theater is samsung HT-TP33, which is an old model and not satisfying for me I found these...

Hi AV Forums, Firstly, hello! This is my first post, though I have been lingering for some time due to me knowing the timeline for my build start date. Also, apologies if this is in the wrong place, I ran a search for threads with the soundproofing tags and it seems a lot of them came from...

XTZ M6 Speakers £600 Pair Left/ Center + Right Black Home Cinema Bookshelf THX ULTRA £600 - grab a bargain. Collection preferred, please. I can have delivered via courier at extra cost. All of my years of ownership and trying various brands and speakers led me to these, which I consider a holy...

I was encouraged to post in this forum to share the tool described below. My initial publishing of this tool can be found in AVSforums. I hope that you find this tool useful. Linked to this thread is a beta version of a room layout and frequency response estimation spreadsheet. The spreadsheet...

Hi All, I hope this is the right forum to post this. Has anyone ever thought of using RGB LEDs with an HDMI extractor, but putting the LEDs all around the room? I have seen lots of videos like this: () and have wondered why the LEDs are limited to light just the back of the screen. I am...

The NEW Klipsch 15" SPL-150 800W subwoofers have finally made their way to the US. I was able to preorder mine from an amazing vendor in Biloxi who got me, not one, but two of these from the first shipment to the U.S.; not only that but they hooked me up with a ridiculous deal on them. These...