tony cosgrove
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Hi there, looking for some pointers/advice re speakers for a combined HT/stereo set up.
The front room/lounge is in a typical 1930s brick built bungalow so no neighbours to worry about.
The room size is approximately 5 mts X 4 mts X 3 mts in height and is pretty minimalist ie no carpet or soft furnishings except the sofa which is an L shape on the opposite wall to the TV/av set up the floor is tiled and there's lots of hard areas/reflections with a bay window to the left of the TV.
I've just replaced a Yamaha Stereo reciever (R-N803D) with a second hand DENON AVR-x4500H bought off the forums there's a pair of Elac BS 312 bookshelves connected to the FR&FL and I have an SVS 3000 MICRO DUAL 8" 800W sub coming this afternoon.
The TV is a Philips 65OLED706 .
We ( my wife & I ) mainly listen to music ie streamed/internet radio/FM radio and my music library is on a HDD connected to a Topping D10s which is connected to the DENON AVR via RCA analogue inputs and we have an ATV 4K (21) also connected via HDMI to the Denon with the TV connected to the Denon's monitor EARC output.
We watch movies bought or rented from the iTunes Store, Amazon prime, BBC iPlayer and the other catch up services and the Freeview HD channels.
Music and TV/movies etc is about 50-50
I need a centre channel and have put my name down for a Monolith TX-365C with Chris at AA but open to suggestions here especially regarding matching with the Elacs which have a jet tweeter.
I intend to buy a decent integrated stereo amp with HT bypass for when we're listening to music however there's a couple of issues one is that the Elacs have never sounded as good as they should sound judging by the reviews ( I bought them SH ) and I think that was down to the Yamaha reciever but they do sound a lot better with the Denon as I've only a 2.0 system at the moment and the other issue is that I like the look of the Elacs but I'd change them if necessary.
I'm not really looking for a full cinema sound system I think we'd be happy with a decent 3.1 set up but I can always add a set of rears easily enough.
Regarding replacing the Elacs with other speakers I was thinking about the Monolith TX-265B bookshelves for the fronts and maybe a pair for the rears but I'n mot sure that those speakers are good for stereo or as good for stereo as maybe the Elacs/an-other speaker?
The single most important issue wrt the TV sound system is dialogue so I want a system that lets us listen to the spoken word however I do realise that dialogue is a problem that speakers just won't solve with some movies but I would like to minimise that as much as possible, at the moment we watch a lot of TV/movies with subtitles switched on so that we can basically understand what is being said.
I've only bought the sub at the moment so I'm completely open to suggestions re other speakers etc.
Thanks in advance.
Tony
The front room/lounge is in a typical 1930s brick built bungalow so no neighbours to worry about.
The room size is approximately 5 mts X 4 mts X 3 mts in height and is pretty minimalist ie no carpet or soft furnishings except the sofa which is an L shape on the opposite wall to the TV/av set up the floor is tiled and there's lots of hard areas/reflections with a bay window to the left of the TV.
I've just replaced a Yamaha Stereo reciever (R-N803D) with a second hand DENON AVR-x4500H bought off the forums there's a pair of Elac BS 312 bookshelves connected to the FR&FL and I have an SVS 3000 MICRO DUAL 8" 800W sub coming this afternoon.
The TV is a Philips 65OLED706 .
We ( my wife & I ) mainly listen to music ie streamed/internet radio/FM radio and my music library is on a HDD connected to a Topping D10s which is connected to the DENON AVR via RCA analogue inputs and we have an ATV 4K (21) also connected via HDMI to the Denon with the TV connected to the Denon's monitor EARC output.
We watch movies bought or rented from the iTunes Store, Amazon prime, BBC iPlayer and the other catch up services and the Freeview HD channels.
Music and TV/movies etc is about 50-50
I need a centre channel and have put my name down for a Monolith TX-365C with Chris at AA but open to suggestions here especially regarding matching with the Elacs which have a jet tweeter.
I intend to buy a decent integrated stereo amp with HT bypass for when we're listening to music however there's a couple of issues one is that the Elacs have never sounded as good as they should sound judging by the reviews ( I bought them SH ) and I think that was down to the Yamaha reciever but they do sound a lot better with the Denon as I've only a 2.0 system at the moment and the other issue is that I like the look of the Elacs but I'd change them if necessary.
I'm not really looking for a full cinema sound system I think we'd be happy with a decent 3.1 set up but I can always add a set of rears easily enough.
Regarding replacing the Elacs with other speakers I was thinking about the Monolith TX-265B bookshelves for the fronts and maybe a pair for the rears but I'n mot sure that those speakers are good for stereo or as good for stereo as maybe the Elacs/an-other speaker?
The single most important issue wrt the TV sound system is dialogue so I want a system that lets us listen to the spoken word however I do realise that dialogue is a problem that speakers just won't solve with some movies but I would like to minimise that as much as possible, at the moment we watch a lot of TV/movies with subtitles switched on so that we can basically understand what is being said.
I've only bought the sub at the moment so I'm completely open to suggestions re other speakers etc.
Thanks in advance.
Tony
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