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The only place along the front wall that the sub can go is next to the TV on either side. If I move the front speakers closer to the tv than the 95" screen will not be able to be lowered. Is the Ultra2 sub magnetically shielded? I am going to try everything under the sun tonight to see what I can come up with before I start experimenting with front wall placement. I will take a more up to date picture this weekend and post it so you can get a more accurate representation of the current setup.

The problem with the volume knob is that it is disabled once you turn on the thx switch. The light above the volume knob turns red, indicating that the knob does nothing. The volume of the sub is now soley controlled by the THX Ultra2 receiver. I have the sub off to the centre just in front of my cabinet (inbetween my cabinet and left front speaker, probably 2-3' from the left speaker). If I move it to the front inbetween my TV (centre channel) and left front speaker will it sound better? I have attached a very old picture of the room right when I finished construction of the basement. It still shows the RF-35's and b&W sub next to the cabinet. But it gives you the idea of how the area is laid out. The room has a 95" screen that comes down in front of the 51" RPTV when I watch movies. Thanks for the suggestions, I really apreciate the help.

I just installed my new Ultra2 sub/ 1000 amp and I am having a hard time setting it up. My system is as follows: KL-650-THX x3 Front center and Left KS-525-THX Side surrounds SCW-1 inwall back surrounds KW-120-THX sub (one) KA-1000-THX sub amp Pioneer Elite VSX-47-THX Ultra2 reciever I used to have a B&W ASW1000 sub that the ultra2 sub replaced. When that sub was in the system the bass was fantastic and the levels on the sub were barley at 1/4 volume and the receiver set to -10db on the sub level control. I have now set everything up to THX specs letting the receiver handle all volume etc.... levels. I find that I have to have the sub level on the receiver set to +6db to get anything decient and it still is not as room filling as the B&W was. On a positive note: the bass peek level was set to -25db with the B&W before it started to bottom out, and the Ultra sub is set to -5 before bottoming out (at least I hear something different that I am assuming is the sub over exerting itself). Should I setup the sub as if it was not connected to an Ultra2 receiver and do all the adjustments on the amp? Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of having all the THX standards and settings to hear what the THX people want you to hear accuratly? Should I redo my accoustic calibration with the microphone? ( I am pretty sure it does not dial in the sub). I am very confused and would like some help from people who own the ultra2 subs. Lastly, does this mean I need to buy the second sub too be happy? My room is 1600cubic feet and I beleive one of these subs should be enough to fill the room.

"gibby214" The flat white ceiling accually does not cause any reflection problems at all. I can acually watch a movie with one of the table lamps on and the colors do not wash out (very minutly). The granite color walls help alot with the reflections and darkining of the room. When the lights are off I can barley make out my speakers at the front. I would have loved to do a black ceiling but I was given 2 choices by my wife on colors. If I wanted a black ceiling she would only agree if I had a light pastely color on the wall. If I did white I could do the granite color. I think I chose the right selection. Well my Ultra2 are complete except for the sub and back surrounds. I placed the horns on the inside instead of outside like before and the front sound stage is 20 times better than when I had them on the outside. Now with the centre in place and the surrounds in place the sound is truly out of this world and none directional. It is killing me that I am going to have to wait on the subs for a little while, but my B&W is not having a hard time keeping up too much. The back surrounds unfortunatly will not be changed to ultra2's because they have too be inwalls as shown in my pictures. With the couch against the wall it is the only way too get proper 7.1 imaging without it sounding weird. If I put another set of KS-525's on the back wall they would shoot over your head and not sound like they were behind your head. Also my wife already thinks we have too many speakers in the room that are visible that if I put another visible ste on the wall she would kill me. With the inwalls, once I painted the grills they disapear into the wall. The only thing with the back surrounds is wether too place the horns on the top or the bottom? Currently they are place on the top. It sounds pretty good but I was curious if it was worht turning them upside down to have the horns closer too my head? Anybody have suggestions?

Thank you Bongo4. It took me 1 full year to complete the project and I am quite happy with the results. My back ordered Centre KL-650THX is in so I will be picking it up monday or tuesday. NOw my only big dilema is how too get the ultra2 sub and amp. I have exhausted all funds with the rest of the speakers. The only way I might be able to pull it off is if I down grade my Monster HTS5100 power centre to a basic Panamax DBS-sat wall mount unit with basic filtering. My dealer would give me full money back for my monster centre and that would buy me the ultra2 sub amp. I would then try to sell my B&W ASW1000 sub for about 500-600 and come up with the difference for the ultra2 sub. Do you guys think it is worth giving up my HTS5100 power centre? AM I going to notice a difference in picture and sound without it?

Pioneer Elite VSX-47TX

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These are older photos. They are missing the new 525 rears, blinds for the windows, centre channel stands etc... These are just too give you an idea of how the setup is like.

One more with grills off.

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