Pathos

This is what drives some of us mad. I finally saved up enough to get the RF7-II's last year and now they come out with something else that I absolutely need. I mean, who doesn't need these?

I had my walls down to the concrete and regret not putting in conduit to pull cables through. I thought I had everything I needed, I tested all my cables, everything was good to go, but one HDMI end was crushed after everything was framed in. Almost impossible to run another one without opening up the walls. Good call Gnote and I can't agree with you more.

Tnycman, Don't rent a truck, rent one of the movers like you would when moving your household items. 15ft enclosed truck. But yeah, the Smart car could be a good option.

What do you drive? Lets hope is a small Geo Metro or something like that. I envision, stopping by a mattress store and buying a couple queen size box springs, put the screen between them and strap them to the roof of the car. Don't go past 90mph if you take the interstate. Cornering over 45 will cause them to shift also. Joking aside, I did the same thing when buying some furniture once, rented a small Uhaul and had it all back to them for about 26 dollars total. You can buy/bring some straps to secure it to one of the walls of the truck.

Everyone here will be happy to chime in on what to buy and why. To make it useful for you, help by providing a budget, timeline, and any ideas you already have. Atmos or no? 5.1 or 7.2.4. Things like that will help. Welcome and be ready to get into the weeds with this stuff.

Nice, Very clean looking setup. Do you notice the addition of the Atmos speakers? I mean how much Atmos is there with a KC touchdown? Lots of cheering and noise for sure, but I wonder...

I totally agree that adding a sub is very necessary. However, having lived in apartments/condos/townhomes, they do add that thump that can often tick off the neighbors. You are missing some very nice sound without that low end bass, but maybe you are keeping your neighbors happier. Once I added one I talked to my neighbors about what they felt was acceptable and only turned it on then. (for the most part) Now that I live in a house with the Sub in the basement, my wife gives me the neighbor treatments sometimes..."Turn it down!!!" I can get away with it when she is watching a movie with me.

Wake, Nice, those should work just fine for Atmos, you will never notice them. 7.4.2....Count me as jealous. I thought that I would always be drawn to my projector when I first mounted it...I thought it stuck out too much. I don't even pay attention to it anymore. Keep me in mind when/if you cycle the RS-3IIs out of your inventory.

Youthman, Congrats on the find, I don't think I have seen those in white. Did I miss what Wake is going to do with the old RS-3IIs? I have a set of RF-3IIs and never did buy the rear surrounds. If you guys need a buyer for those please let me know. Pathos.

Very cool...Nothing that fell off the back of a truck is always good news.

I agree with Pbphoto, let Qnap do the raid on the disks. It looks like that Qnap supports raid 5. This is striping with parity, its not bad for writing, but it is very fast reads. If you lose a drive the volume is only degraded speed wise, but you don't lose data. You can replace the failed drive and the raid will rebuild itself. You can do raid 5 with 3 drives at minimum. If you want you can tell Qnap to use 3 active and 1 hot swap drive...or just let it use all 4 in the raid. (Not sure if the Qnap supports Hot spare or not) The more hard drive spindles in use the more performance you will get. If you use 3 drives you will have 8tb usable space, double the read performance and all 4 drives will give you 12tb space with triple read performance. At this point I might not be answering your question exactly, but hope to point you towards using the Qnap's raid technology instead of disk by disk read/write...I also agree with backing up to something outside of the Qnap if you are paranoid.

Instead of splitting the HDMI, why not run your HDMI to the TV and Optical or Coaxial cable to your receiver? That way you get both without having to split them.

I like the 103D too. I was pleasantly surprised when I started using some of the other features as well. Roku stick in the MHL port in front and that you can use it as a video input source and single output. Many, many features. There are a ton of posts on here, I don't think anyone has been disappointed that they purchased it. I had a Sony BPD-something before and this is much faster turning on, opening, and loading.

Thanks guys, I am helping my father in law spec out a complete new setup after a fire destroyed his previous one. I was going to recommend the RP-280FA system. His new room would be an easy ceiling installation so I can have him skip the RP-280FAs and go right to an RF-7II system since he wouldn't need the upfiring speakers.

Ok, thanks for the replies. If mixing them isn't a good idea, what is the preferred deployment? Upfiring or Ceiling?

Ok, I have a question that I don't really see answered. If I missed it please send me a link to the right post. If you take a look at the 5.1.2 or 5.1.4 setups you can see where to place the 2 or 4 ceiling speakers. (According to the Dolby site). My question is if you have the RP-280FA as your 5.1.2 and you add two ceiling speakers where do you put them? You would have 5.1.4 with the two upward firing speakers on the RP-280FA and two downward firing in-ceiling speakers. Would the in-ceiling speakers be placed above the listener as in the 5.1.2 example? Or behind the listener? http://www.dolby.com/us/en/guide/dolby-atmos-speaker-setup/5-1-2-setups.html Let me know your thoughts. Thanks.

I have a manual screen and pull it down over the TV when I want some big screen action. I hung it from the ceiling so it would clear the TV... Wall mounting was a bit close. I would rather get an electric and a 4k projector, but this was my "cheap" step 1 and it sounds like what you are doing. IMO, with your room being dark you don't have to worry about high dollar screens or getting a light cannon. That screen Scrappy listed is probably fine. The projector is easily decided by what you want to spend. $800.00 BenQ 1070 is probably the best sub 1k HT projector. The Panny 8000 for $1,700.00 and then you jump up in price to the Epson, Sony, and JVC...$2,000.00 and beyond. My biggest problem was running the cables. I bought the Sony that has the IR 3d so I had to run HDMI, Power and an Cat 5/6 cable for the IR extender. I split my signal also and send it to another TV in the back of the room, but the splitter has to be taken off when I watch 3d. Order your cables and projector mount beforehand...running to Best Buy and other Brick and Mortor stores can end up costing you a bunch. Just shooting you a couple of my own lessons learned and suggestions.

Maseline, I am looking at the same thing and I have RF-7IIs. I think I read in another Atmos post that these would be nice. http://www.klipsch.com/CDT-5800-C-II The tweeter moves too, but I don't think you would want to move it. Having the ceiling speaker directed downward is the effect you are looking for. Nismo or Jay might be able to give you some good direction. Edited to include the link properly.

Another plus about the 103 (and I think the 105 is the same) you can plug a Roku stick into the front of it and have the Roku Version of the apps and/or apps that the Oppo doesn't have yet. The Netflix app on Roku works pretty well. I have never had a problem with that.

I can put ends on your Cat 6 if needed. A or B. B is usually the only thing you use anymore. I think someone told me that it is like a USA standard.

I have purchased all my cables from Monoprice recently...4 years or so now, I haven't had a problem yet. Well the one problem I had was the end I smashed after it was ran in the wall and after the drywall went up. Monoprice even agreed to repair it for me as long as I shipped it back...doh. I ran HDMI over ethernet and it worked fine, but I was unable to run the signal once I split it with an HDMI splitter. Something to think about if you plan on trying to split the signal. Redmere powered cables might have an issue with splitting the signal too. I need to do some more reading. If the price isn't much more look into Cat 6A cable. I don't know if there are A/V differences, but it is all we run for work anymore for data. Both can do 10g, but 6A is 10g capable at longer distances.

I ended up with a Sony VPL-HW40ES. I originally got the Epson 5030UB that was beautiful and bright, but had a small dust blob almost center screen. The Epson doesn't have a closed light path and can get dust blobs anytime so I took it back. I was too afraid to get another one so I switched to the Sony. The Sony had a good picture right out of the box and really does a nice job with 3D too. The 3d is IR unless you buy a RF addon so it does limit your glasses and placement choices. I have to have an IR emitter sitting with my center channel that is pointed at the viewers. You don't see it unless I point it out, but it is connected to the projector via an RJ-45 cable. About 50% of my viewing is 16x9 sports content so the auto format change wasn't up at the top of my list. When we watch movies I live with the bars at the top. Guardians of the galaxy 3d switched formats mid movie. Someone told me that there are some others that did that too. I have a 106 screen at 15' and definitely want to go bigger. I was told that 106 at my viewing distance was the biggest I should go, but now I am regretting that and want to go bigger. I think 130' will fit in my area, even thought the "experts" say that is too big.

Well, I guess that quote didn't work, but I was quoting the Jim Roders quote about playing not Atmos mixes and noticing an improvement. Hey!!! I said the same thing. I have been happier all around since moving to the Atmos setup. I am thinking about changing out the front Module speakers for Ceiling speakers. I think I will get more coverage and better sound. Keep up the info Nismo, I am sold on Atmos and we need to convert more followers!!!

So, I showed this video to my wife and she said..."oh, look at that granite, I like that faucet, nice trim work...wow, that paint really goes well with the carpet and..." I stopped her and asked about the speakers...."Oh, I guess they are ok". Men are from Mars and who the hell knows where they dug up the women.

Man that is nice. I really like the trim. Now that you added the custom trim you will have to keep it forever....oh darn.