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[pharsyde]

took everything down sunday, cleaned and polished. took a quick shot of the setup, wasn't 100% however with component alignement (at the time)

there is more to add to complete the setup. i am a recent hobbyists, finding my way (HT direction) over time. pursuing a quality HT setup, with an emphasis on musical quality.

component notables

- NAD T955, 5 Channel power amp.
- Yamaha DVD S-1800 (DVD, SACD) I love this player
- Yamaha HTR-6190 as processor

...i have enroute a Grant Fidelity DAC-09 (Black) (use between the 1800 and processor) .. it's a tube DAC. should be nice. i should have it tomorrow or thursday - going to mount left-center from the CC

*I'll add other POI in appropriate thread(s) ..

[Brad]

by the time i get around to posting a pic, my walls might be that *exact* same colour..my GF is on my case HARDCORE about painting..hahaha

[SoundGame]

Nice room and neat setup Pharsyde.

[SoundGame]

One suggestion with your centre channel. I have a similar setup with my centre sitting on a glass rack shelf, like yours. If you move the centre forward as much as possible and angle it upward, so that the centre channel tweeter is aimed at your seated position ear level - more specifically, angled so that the sound from the tweeter reaches you at the same height as the tweeter in your towers, you should find increase clarity in vocals.
This is because you time align the tweeters in the centre channel with the towers but much more importantly, you will get rid of the reflection distortion that will occur, in your current setup, when the sound emitted from your centre channel hits the glass of your stand and reflects off of it.
I tell you, it was a noticeable difference for me.

[pharsyde]

I tell you, it was a noticeable difference for me

absolutely does

.. lifted (and re-angled) center channel with hockey pucks, quite noticeable.

thanks for the heads up.

my stand comes with a post and mount for LCD. may have to get a buddy to volunteer this weekend.

[Brad]

many centre channels (mine included) have a little extendable rotating feet at the back, which are great for angling it forward if it is mounted on top of a display..it would make a lot more sense in this day and age to have feet on the front as well, so the cabinet could be angled "front up" just as easy as "front down"

as it is i just use little black rubber self-adhesive feet. they are available from crappy tire in various sizes, and they probably blend in a little easier than hockey picks

[Suave]

Very nice setup pharsyde - thanks for sharing! Seeing the pictures of some of our setups adds a pretty interesting component to this forum.

Great suggestions from SoundGame and Brad! If I may add a little something to what SoundGame said - many guys in the industry recommend that a centre channel speaker should stick out roughly a quarter-of-an-inch past the edge of the shelf, in order to produce the best sound.

Let us know how the Grant Fidelity DAC sounds when you hook it up. We recently began working with this company and may ask them to send us something new for review in the near future.

BTW - what type of speakers are you using and what are they sitting on top of?

[SoundGame]

Glad I could help. It worked for me - glad it did for you as well. Cheers.

[pharsyde]

recommend that a centre channel speaker should stick out roughly a quarter-of-an-inch past the edge of the shelf, in order to produce the best sound.

done .. wasn't that hard really .. and i'm always motivated when it comes to HT ..

Let us know how the Grant Fidelity DAC sounds when you hook it up

will do, with images to boot.

what type of speakers are you using

here's where it gets real humble with these paradigm cinema's (phantom w/ CC220) long story short, haved learned quite alot since my entry into HT (year ago)

certainly there is a POV (reasoning) to view your HT purchases from the speakers inward - not the source components out. solid speaker investment is probably the most important (or one of) hardware purchases to build around.

what are they sitting on top of

inert blocks from a buddy who works @ NRC. they use it to build model simulations. very dense, and alot of weight verses what you would think initially (or expect)

i have the footings (and spikes) attached to the speakers.

[AlienTech]

I'd disagree on source vrs speaker when prioritizing

Great speakers will sound like crap with a poor source.

Average speakers will sound much better with a superior source.

The old axiom GIGO holds true and the GI comes first If you feed great speakers crap you will get crap out of a $10,000 pair of speakers. This is the reason I like separate systems when it comes to pre/pro/amp/dac/source

But it's really one of those balance issues and involves planning for the future. If one is never going to "upgrade" anything balance is very important but if like most people you plan on upgrading thinking of a plan going forward is helpful.

IMHO :-)