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    Samsung BD3252 Blu-ray Home-Theater-in-a-Box Actually Kind of a Deal for $800

    Real Surround Sound Beats Fake Surround Sound 10 to 1

    Do You Have a Surround Sound Setup?

    Yamaha's Latest Home Theater in a Box(es)

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    Image of Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage! Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage!
    07/21/09

    In reply to Samsung BD3252 Blu-ray Home-Theater-in-a-Box Actually Kind of a Deal for $800
    Can I buy the speakers without the player?

    That seems to be an untapped (at the very least underserved) market, the "I need surround speakers for my new amplifier" customer.
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    07/21/09

    @Gearhead_42: they sell plenty of stand alone speakers. just gotta look under "speakers" and not home theater
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    Image of COCOViper COCOViper
    07/21/09

    In reply to Samsung BD3252 Blu-ray Home-Theater-in-a-Box Actually Kind of a Deal for $800
    LG has one that has almost the exact same specs (BluRay, Pandora, Netflix) for $459.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882005046
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    Image of Serpent2 Serpent2
    07/21/09

    @COCOViper:
    yes, but how does it sound. I have been looking at htib lately and i didnt realize how different the sound quality is in each speaker system. Sheesh.. I just want something that sounds like bose or better because I really dont care to pay for the bose branding..
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    07/21/09

    @Serpent2:

    BOSE: Buy Other Sound Equipment
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    07/21/09

    @Vulphaestus: No highs, no lows, it must be BOSE.
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    Image of FurySamurai72 FurySamurai72
    07/21/09

    @BloggyMcBlogBlog: what are you talking about? i have an 8 speaker stereo system in my volvo. it sounds amazing. and dont pull that "oh well you've never had a REAL sound system have you!?" BS cause i have. and let me tell you, These speakers produce so much bass i have actually opened the trunk to look to see if there is a subwoofer. Bose makes awesome sound equipment. thats why they're so expensive. not saying that you should pay the extra for bose, but dont knock on the quality just cause they're expensive. you douche.
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    Image of Jeremy Jeremy
    06/15/09

    In reply to Real Surround Sound Beats Fake Surround Sound 10 to 1
    Just run the wires under your carpet/rugs and up the drywall, then make a small hole and fish it through.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    06/15/09

    In reply to Real Surround Sound Beats Fake Surround Sound 10 to 1
    My thoughts re: Virtual Surround Sound Processing (and/or DSP in general):


    No matter how much you polish a 2D turd, it will never be 3D...

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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    06/15/09

    In reply to Real Surround Sound Beats Fake Surround Sound 10 to 1
    Yeah but aren't most soundbars that do the 'virtual surround sound' something like twice the price compared to even midrange and high end HTiB's?
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    06/15/09

    @Log1c: Virtual Surround sucks ass, I love everything Dolby has pioneered except for that crap.


    No matter how much you polish a 2D turd, it will never be 3D...

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    Image of kernow kernow
    06/15/09

    In reply to Real Surround Sound Beats Fake Surround Sound 10 to 1
    Whats the name/make of that fire?
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    06/15/09

    @leotris: It's the Jetson 3000. You can pick one up from Spacely Sprockets.
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    06/15/09

    In reply to Real Surround Sound Beats Fake Surround Sound 10 to 1

    "...3% of respondents have a full system, but never hooked up the rear speakers."


    Apparently, just like whoever owns this setup. Study the picture.

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    Image of ryguyli ryguyli
    06/15/09

    @bosskev: Just the rear speakers?
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    06/15/09

    @ryguyli: Can't be sure about the rest, but clearly the rear set are not connected. This is the kind of "Architectural Digest" photo that drives me bonkers with its obvious "can't really live in this room it's so damned fake" styling.
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    Image of oschultz oschultz
    06/15/09

    In reply to Real Surround Sound Beats Fake Surround Sound 10 to 1
    how's 7.1 compared to 5.1?
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    Image of dc-united dc-united
    06/15/09

    @oschultz: The 2 extra refers to the center rear speakers. It's all about ambience in the surrounds anyway, so if you don't have them, you're not missing a huge amount.


    In a multi-speaker setup, the center channel speaker handles about 80% of the dialog and effects, with the left and right fronts handling most of the rest. The rear surrounds would pick up ambient sounds. If you remember the bathroom shootout scene in True Lies, you could hear shell casings falling to the tile floor off to the back and sides of you. That's the work of the surrounds.


    Center rear speakers localize the sound even more, where a 5.1 setup would approximate the location of the sound.


    The problem is that not a whole lot of existing content is mixed for 7.1 so you're not missing that much. It'll be much more prevalent in newer sound design.


    My bottom line recommendation to friends getting new systems is to spend the most money on the three speakers in the front (most on the center) and on the sub. All the rest is gravy. I added my surrounds two years after getting the rest.

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    06/15/09

    @dc-united: If you will also be using the receiver for stereo music, it's not a bad idea to spend some money for better FL/FR speakers, but as dc-united stated, the center channel does most of the work when watching movies mixed for 5.1/7.1...
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    06/15/09

    @dc-united: I think my advice would be spend *all* your money on your left and right front speakers. If your front speakers can't image sufficiently well to do a phantom center, you are in trouble.


    The only excuse in my mind for a center channel is to anchor the dialog to the screen for people who are too off-axis to allow the speakers to image properly. The cost of that is creating much more problematic room acoustics issues with combining/canceling waveforms. I think most people would be better off leaving the center channel out.

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    06/15/09

    @AmphetamineCrown: Any reasonably good surround receiver isn't going to be doubling up the dialogue output to both the center and FR/FL speakers, yeah it will push the dialogue track out the FR/FL speakers but at a much reduced loudness, if you are hearing that track at an equal loudness from all three front speakers you have some leveling settings seriously borked in your receiver...
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/10/09

    In reply to Do You Have a Surround Sound Setup?
    So sound and shit is all great, but what is that FIREPLACE?! That's pretty frikkin rad!
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    Image of akifbayram akifbayram
    06/10/09

    In reply to Do You Have a Surround Sound Setup?
    The community for www.blu-ray.com has a great gallery of people showing off their home theater setups. [www.blu-ray.com]
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    Image of Wilson Rothman Wilson Rothman
    06/10/09

    @akifbayram: Oh yeah? We may well have them beat.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    06/10/09

    In reply to Do You Have a Surround Sound Setup?
    Sony 5.1 DTS/Dolby 600 watt receiver, Kenwood 150 watt front channel speakers, Sony 150 watt sub, Infinity center channel speaker, and I was lucky enough that the people I bought my home from opted during construction for nice Bose in-ceiling rear channel speakers, pre-wired to the entertainment center niche.
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    Image of robinandtami robinandtami
    06/10/09

    In reply to Do You Have a Surround Sound Setup?
    I have three. One in the bedroom. One in my game room, and a nice 7.1, lossless capable, system in my HT room.


    [www.blu-ray.com]

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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/10/09

    In reply to Do You Have a Surround Sound Setup?
    onkyo 7.1
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/10/09

    In reply to Do You Have a Surround Sound Setup?
    It's much cheaper to just sit in the swivel chair and spin for 2 1/2 hours.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/10/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: It only works when you spin right round. Baby, right round.
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    06/10/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Good luck with the Titanic on 2 cassette VHS.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/10/09

    @geiko: @geiko:


    Hey, you have your methods, and I have mine.

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    06/10/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Oh don't get me wrong. I don't have a surround sound setup either. I just go with the caveman method: just get surround sound in only one ear by sticking the side of your head to the tv speakers, and using a mirror to see the moving pictures.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/10/09

    @geiko: I take the owl approach, where I weave my head from side to side and in a circular motion to focus in on the sound.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/10/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: No kidding, I have a full surround set of Haflers including a 15" sub. But I'm afraid to use it, so it just sits in storage several states away...
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/10/09

    In reply to Do You Have a Surround Sound Setup?
    My Lenovo Ideapad has 4 built in speakers and a subwoofer. Does that count?
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    06/10/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Wow, that would be a huge computer! I know the subwoofer I have is around 12 lbs. by itself.


    You must be super buff to carry around a laptop with a sub.

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    06/10/09

    @32ndnote: It's a really small subwoofer. I didn't even know it was there at first - I just thought that the normal speakers had good bass. Then one day I flipped it over and was like "wtf is this?".
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