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    A Surround Sound Speaker, Not a Dartboard

    Yamaha Rethinks the AV Receiver, Creates neoHD

    Real Surround Sound Beats Fake Surround Sound 10 to 1

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    Image of BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
    11/03/09

    In reply to A Surround Sound Speaker, Not a Dartboard
    Mod it for a shower head and I'd buy it. My current shower music set up consists of my laptop and of course the lead vocals by Me. #eopsi24r3portable
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/03/09

    In reply to A Surround Sound Speaker, Not a Dartboard
    Suspend it in a frame so it looks like a giant gong. I'll buy 3 #eopsi24r3portable
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    11/03/09

    In reply to A Surround Sound Speaker, Not a Dartboard
    Screw the surround sound, I'd buy one of these just to convert to an awesome shower head. #eopsi24r3portable
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    11/03/09

    In reply to A Surround Sound Speaker, Not a Dartboard
    I'm trying to figure out how you mount it. Does it hang from above the center of the room like a light fixture? Stick a light bulb in the thing and you have something really snazy. #eopsi24r3portable
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    Image of room209 room209
    06/29/09

    In reply to Yamaha Rethinks the AV Receiver, Creates neoHD
    Giz's new flash image loading bullshit sucks.


    That is all.

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    Image of bobdobbs bobdobbs
    06/29/09

    @room209: Let me fix that for you:


    [snip] flash [snip] sucks.


    That is all.

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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    06/29/09

    In reply to Yamaha Rethinks the AV Receiver, Creates neoHD
    yay. another device with more controls on the remote than the device itself. another lose the remote and be fecked.
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    Image of Spartanical Spartanical
    06/29/09

    @KhaiJB: don't lose the remote. how the hell do you lose a remote in the house??!


    and if you say children then i say LOSE the kids. :-)

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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    07/01/09

    @Spartanical: well..there's dogs, water, mother in law, wife, act of random deity.....
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    Image of robinandtami robinandtami
    06/29/09

    In reply to Yamaha Rethinks the AV Receiver, Creates neoHD
    Looks like a hunk of junk to me.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    06/29/09

    In reply to Yamaha Rethinks the AV Receiver, Creates neoHD
    My five year-old Sony receiver has on-screen. I like the form factor of this, but it really needs more inputs.
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    Image of DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star. DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
    06/29/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Agreed. Take what it has x2.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    06/29/09

    @DeusExMach: Thirded!


    3 HDMI != "a zillion inputs"...

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    Image of bobdobbs bobdobbs
    06/29/09

    In reply to Yamaha Rethinks the AV Receiver, Creates neoHD
    Spring clips for speaker connections? I'd stick with similarly-priced Onkyos.
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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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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    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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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    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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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    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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