Can you suggest a speakers for a dedicated 13*28 room

Vinay,

As you all can see, I’m a verbose poster but since I was quite tied up with other important work (the one that pays for these HT stuff) to draft satisfactory posts, I sent the PM.

Can you suggest me a source for remote controlled motorized screen (10*7.5) and projector lift. I’ll be back in India for four days on July 4th and need to get all these purchased in time for our planned house (including HT) completion on 08-08-08.

Thanks

I’ve been on road and hence had to be away from the forums. Sorry for raising so many questions and disappearing for 2 days. I’ll later (2-3 weeks) post photos & details on the acoustics works.

I’m surprised by the plethora of great brands with no clear winner. I entered the forum to suggest me the best out of four options and these forums have left me with forty options.

I was a “great audiophile” two decades back when I designed and built my own amplifier and stereo speakers but now too lazy and prefer “plug and play”. For this reason for receiver I’ve decided on integrated receivers Onkyo905 or Denon4308. I’d have preferred Denon4308 due to the better GUI part but I’m leaning towards Onkyo905 because of forum member’s feedback and also since the dealer is nearby which may help in easy service. I trust the forum members and general opinion more than my ears since the system is not just for my ears (lot more ears aged 7 to 70 in my family) and also I hope the systems outlasts my ears/tastes. This will be my first and may be last (better put, hopefully don’t have to upgrade the system for decades) HT receiver and speaker system. Wish buying these speakers are like buying a Rolex which is to be owned and passed to next generation. I’ve upped my receivers by one level from Onkyo875 & Denon3808 based on feedback “dedicated fully done room requiring powerful system due to absorption loss” from the forums and also since I needed two HDMI outputs to support LCD/projector combination.

On speakers, I see that we need a separate brand & models for different applications. Ideally, we need one for movies (7.1/5.1) another for music (country / devotion songs) and yet another for party/disco. Fortunately for now I still rule the show rather than the kids and so have to worry about only the first two. Therefore instead of compromising I’m thinking of going for separate speakers (again idea from Sunil’s post & SoundsGreat’s clear rejection of my “creative” idea). I’m thinking of going for the speakers which is “best” for each.

For movies (100% 5.1 or 7.1) I’m thinking of going for Klipsch RF83*2, RC64, RS62*2, RS52*2, RT12. In addition I’ll be later going for a couple of floor standers for stereo Music which I’ll play with the same SW. I hope this can be managed using zones (or some other) feature of the AV receivers. The HT room will look like a demo room with extra two floor standers but that is ok since it is a dedicated room.

Main reason I’m going for Klipsch is it is available from multiple dealers in Chennai itself in addition to other Indian cities and so I feel that I can get a better price and service. Also this seems to be popular for home theater in India and the US and though it may not be the best, it won’t be very bad either. With the total budget crossing 10L (including acoustics & projector), I don’t think another lakh for a dedicated music floor standers to get best of both worlds is a bad idea.

Now the questions I have are
1) Is this overkill for my fully treated 13*28 room? Should I go with one level down say RF82 based?

2) Sunill mentioned that the SW won’t be enough. I read some where that RF83 is so good in bass that a SW is not really needed! In that case isn’t RT12 which is quite expensive not sufficient? Do you recommend any thing else for SW? This SW should also be good for music.
3) Is there a significantly better choice than Klipsch for this application? Please note that this is for 100% movies.

I’m thinking of buying the speakers & receiver from India. I’m planning to pick the projector and blue ray player from Singapore. If good SW is not available in Chennai, I can buy that also from Singapore.

I did not understand the meaning of (10*7.5).

I have a dalite screen in 4 x 3 format, it is 82 inches, wide, and the length is around 5.5 feet, this screen does not require a remote, it works on trigger basis, the trigger slot is in the projector, so what happens is that once the projector light is on, the screen automatically rolls down from the false ceiling, similarly when the projector light closes, the screen automatically goes up into the ceiling.

The projector lift is available in Mumbai.

I'm pretty sure, he meant 120x90 inch PJ screen

Sunil, your private box message is flooded, please make some space so that i can send you some message.

Thanks for the information on screen.

Thanks Vinay for the info.

As Sunil said, I had given the screen dimensions in feet. I'm in the process of building the house (with this home theater) and fully involved in that and so I think only in feet now!

For screen, I think I'll go with the type Sunill has suggested. I like that since based on the movie format (16*9 or 4*3), the screen can be lowered just to the required height. Though it is an extra button to press, it gives some additional control. May be when I find that not ideal, I'll link it to the projector.

Can you please let me know where the projector lift is available in Mumbai? Any phone no? More than the Wow factor, this will keep the projector safe and I'm keen to install the lift.

As suggested in the thread Can you suggest a speakers for a dedicated 13*28 room - Page 2
I've decided on the following.

Onkyo-NR905, Klipsch RF82*2, RC62, RS52*2, RS42*2. I'll be buying them next weekend in Chennai.

For the SW, I'm looking at some from AVS Forum - View Single Post - Official Craigsub rankings thread. My budget for SW is 100K Rs and want to buy one of the top ones in this list. My preference order for buying location for the SW is

1) In Chennai with local warranty
2) In Singapore with international or local warranty
3) Any other Indian city with local warranty
4) In India or Singapore without warranty

I need this in Chennai before end July. If there is any dealer/supplier in this forum, can you please contact me for the SW. For the rest, I prefer to buy from "authorized" dealer.

Glad,

Well when i was making my mini theatre, i also used to think only about my theatre, like i told my friend from where did he buy the shirt material, he asked me why, i told him i am considering to use that material on my theatre walls, and guess what, that is exactly the material which i used on the theatre walls, and later i learnt that even the expensive shoes of niki, adidas and rebook, use the same fabric with some of the expensive shoes, with this fabric what happens is that the glass wool can digest the sound with ease, which allows the glass wool to do it's job, when sound is in action, so you are not alone to think about only feet, for me leg, feet, and all vital organs were mini theatre. One of the member it seems has copied my idea of this fabric, without telling me a word of thanks, and guess what, he got the wrong fabric on 2 major counts, and than someone down the line a dealer maybe, is all set to copy these idea's and is declaring to the outside world that he is a professional in making home theatre's, while to certain set of people he claims that he is only learning how a home theatre is made, so it is like a snake in the grass.

Sunil's idea, to watch both format of movies under one screen, is a mystery to me, the height problem i think cannot be solved completely and what about the breadth problem?

I do not think projector's trigger can understand half or full pull down of the screen, it can accept only one command, and that is probably the full down of the screen, this feature of the projector is like a donkey, only limited act.

Indeed with the lift, the wow factor is major, and you are correct it keeps the projector safe and sound in the nest of false ceiling, it is like a child is safe in the mother's womb during pregnancy.

From the guy from whom i bought the projector lift, i have had some bad experience with them, if you will still want their address and contact number i will give it to you, their lift cost was around 35,000/- bucks, while there is a another company, who supplies these lifts, but their cost is nearly double, this company has branches in major metro's of India, so that way they can come and do the installation for you, while the one eye guy, 35,000/- bucks, he will have breathing problem if he has to travel to interiors of Mumbai, for installation, so if he has to come to Chennai, you know what will happen, by the time he reaches your end, he will have to be hospitalized at India's biggest chain of hospital's, Apollo hospital, by the way i am holding large quantities of these shares, it is worth investing for the long term, it will become bullish if it does a monthly closing of above 510, once it breaches this level, the next targets can be set, on technical charts basis.

Vinay.