Moving to 4.0 or 5.0 or 7.0 from 2.0

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Cheers for that Tel.....Intresting google articles. :guiness;

Anyone know where I can get one. :lol:

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I bought a Marantz SR6010 for £480.
I've initially set it up as a 7.0 system. Using EV Sentrys as fronts, a Linn Isobarik as the centre speaker, Saras as rears and Heybrook HB1's as sides.


After watching an Our Brand is Crisis DVD on it my children declared that it was a waste of money. :grin:

We'll be trying it out with some different films and speaker configurations over the next few weeks...

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Well Linndsay (on paper) that must be the the craziest ss system going..... :lol:

Respect. :guiness;

Try discussing that with yer local 7oaks salesman...... :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Lindsayt wrote:I bought a Marantz SR6010 for £480.
I've initially set it up as a 7.0 system. Using EV Sentrys as fronts, a Linn Isobarik as the centre speaker, Saras as rears and Heybrook HB1's as sides.


After watching an Our Brand is Crisis DVD on it my children declared that it was a waste of money. :grin:

We'll be trying it out with some different films and speaker configurations over the next few weeks...
It depends what the frame of reference is for the sound they expect. I guess this has been formed by trips to the cinema. It's a long time since I messed with this sound format but I find it glossy, boomy, but actually a bit soft and lacking detail. Having said that, I keep going back to Danny Elfman's Batman theme and it has never thrilled as much as hearing it at a cinema (those organ pedal notes!)

Plenty of sonic fun to be had, I think.
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Their frame of reference is the 2.0 system we've been running ever since I bought a projector and a blu ray player a few years ago, consisting of a Creek CAS4040 into EV Sentry III's.

We go to the cinema, on average, once per year. We watch over 100 rented Blu rays and DVD's per year. Plus TV watching.

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terrybooth wrote:
Lindsayt wrote:I bought a Marantz SR6010 for £480.
I've initially set it up as a 7.0 system. Using EV Sentrys as fronts, a Linn Isobarik as the centre speaker, Saras as rears and Heybrook HB1's as sides.


After watching an Our Brand is Crisis DVD on it my children declared that it was a waste of money. :grin:

We'll be trying it out with some different films and speaker configurations over the next few weeks...
It depends what the frame of reference is for the sound they expect. I guess this has been formed by trips to the cinema. It's a long time since I messed with this sound format but I find it glossy, boomy, but actually a bit soft and lacking detail. Having said that, I keep going back to Danny Elfman's Batman theme and it has never thrilled as much as hearing it at a cinema (those organ pedal notes!)

Plenty of sonic fun to be had, I think.
yes frame of reference is cinema it sounds so much better than the HiFI dealer stuff even the B&W set up I heard at over £50 K was just that unpleasent loud, it wasnt the nice loud you get at a multiplex.

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Moved the Heybook HB1's up by about 5 feet and reconfigured the system as 5.0.2.

Watched The Huntsman - Winter War on blu ray this evening. DTS:X sound track.
Sounded fine. But then I've got nothing to compare it against, so don't know if it would sound better or worse on some other DTS:X AV system.

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My heart bleeds for ya.......

Silly man.. :guiness;

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SOUDBAR......

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