Cal Blacksmith Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 You just cant help some people! We went over to my sisters house for Thanksgiving and we watched a couple of movies there. They bought a HTIB setup (a Yamaha system) and though the sound quality was ok for what it was, the balance was WAY off! The rears were too quiet as in not audible, the sub was WAY too high as in one of those punks cars that you could hear ½ a mile away, boom, boom, boom! Speaker placement was all wrong. In an effort to hide the speakers, the center was on top of the entertainment center and pushed back to the wall, the fronts were down on the floor and behind the doors of the entertainment center and the rears were just wherever they would fit without any thought as to how they would sound. Between movies, I offered to bring my sound meter over and help balance the system with him and he just mumbled no thats ok and sort of acted insulted. I let it drop and suffered through the second movie without another word. They have sought my advice on sound before and I was glad to help but I know he was offended by my offer to help set his HT up. Ah well, for the sake of the family peace, I can live with bad sound once a year but it is a shame that they have to listen to it EVERY DAY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frzninvt Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 Ignorance is Bliss! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrol Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 I'll give the guy a small break... Perhaps you mis-read him as being "offended' by your offer to help set his HT up. Maybe, for the sake of 'his' family peace, HE is forced to live with bad sound EVERY DAY and your offer had the effect of adding salt to his wound... I know my wife and I have gone many a 'round' regarding speaker placement. While I don't classify listening to my set-up as "suffering", I know it could easily be better. Heck, the mother of my child won't even let me keep the surrounds in the living room... whenever I want to really enjoy a movie, I have to do so while she is out shopping. That way I can haul in the surrounds and crank it up to like the film makers intended it to sound like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffDurbin Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 My dad has a 35" CRT with a Sony 5.1 receiver and a pair of Paradigms up on top of his entertainment center. I had an opportunity to get some little Polk R15s CHEAP and even though they would have been a step back for me I knew someone would like them so I bought two pair and had one pair delivered to my dad's house (because there was a 'limit' of one pair per address). He pulled them out and replaced his Paradigms and was amazed at how much better they sounded. On Thanksgiving, he and my stepmom came over for dinner and ended up watching Star Wars Episode I on my surround system and were amazed. He got hooked. I offered him the second set of R15s for his surrounds and promised to buy him a cheap matching center channel and subwoofer on eBay. All in all, it will be less than $500 and nowhere close to a Klipsch system but it will be a huge step up for him. I was over there yesterday discussing speaker placement with him and when my in-wall speaker wire shows up I will help him wire the speakers. He's really enthusiastic and wants to have everything in place before Christmas when all the relatives show up. He understands that he doesn't know anything about this and he's happy to have my input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunburnwilly Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 Cal Blacksmith Wrote : Between movies, I offered to bring my sound meter over and help balance the system with him and he just mumbled no thats ok and sort of acted insulted. I let it drop and suffered through the second movie without another word. I think what we have to realise here is that we on the Klipsch Forum or any audio forum for that matter are the minority . The majority of people just don't care ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Blacksmith Posted November 28, 2005 Author Share Posted November 28, 2005 Fzn, perhaps but knowledge is agony! Petrol, you could be right but I don't think my sister is like that.... then again I don't live there either[] Jeff; It is great how you are helping you dad get setup, a little help here and a little help there and a good sounding HT system is born. Better quality sound needn't be real expensive, just care in the choice of parts and setup make the difference. SBWilly, great point, if we didn't care this much, we wouldn't spend so much time here[] We do tend to put sound above looks most times, but then again Klipsch speakers can be seen as art so not only do we get great sound, we place art in our rooms to beautify our surroundings![] Nothing like Heritage and extended Heritage HT systems to perform both jobs wonderfully. I just wish I could help my sister / brother-in-law to get the most out of their system. Too bad.[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.4knee Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 I am assisting my maw-in-law with her set up ... finally. She just bought a Samsung 56" DLP set; she has a set of SF1's and an Onkyo receiver. Now I need to get her set up with 2 surrounds, a center and a sub. Ill try to get her set up with a Sub 10 and the probably try to e-bay for the surrounds and center unless I can talk her into a new Synergy set up. But she has finally acquiesced to needing a better entertainment system. I asked her where she was going to place her mains?....Her response Wherever you tell me to! She only had to listen to our setup and watch a movie on our DLP about a dozen times until she realized the old Panasonic 35 just was not doing it for her anymore and her sound was just incomplete<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodsman Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 We are a minority here. I hear it from so many people, this is good enough. They are happy with the home theater out of a box. For them just hearing it is fine. I want to feel my system when I watch a movie. Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pathighgate Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 I'm 31 years old and still single. Occasionally I lement the fact that I've yet to get married, but then I read threads like this and can take some comfort in knowing that, at the very least, no one can tell me where or how to setup my system, or try to get me to spend my disposable income on something foolish (read: something other then my toys). I think the trick is to get as many toys as I can now, because once I'm married and lose control of the checkbook, it'll be all over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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