Thanks all for the patience. Before deciding the budget and all other conclusions, I would like to find the root cause of the performance difference (of course it’s not much as per my perception). Is it with the AVR or the speakers or the AVR settings? My listening taste is like 60% music and 40% movies. My questions:
- Whether the current AVR (Onkyo HTR320 - part of HTS570 package) is enough to achieve the performance (as per the above listening ratio) that I am looking for? I saw some discussions in some forums about this receiver and in general about Onkyo. As per the tech spec from Onkyo the amp outputs 5 x 100w / Channel @ 8ohms with overall harmonic distortion of less than .1% (0.08%). But I am not sure whether it’s outputting 100w / channel. As per their specs, its not clearly written 100w @ how many channels running at a time (is it 2 channels or all the channels). Is it possible to find the output of an amp? If it is for 2 channels, the actual output may be around 80w (guessing) when all channels are driven at a time. If so, whether an 80w amp is enough to give the performance that we generally discuss or an audiophile is looking for?
Following is the spec sheet from the Onkyo website :
Onkyo HT-S570 - 5.1-Channel Home Theater System | Model Information | Onkyo USA Home Theater Products
- Regarding the front speakers, it was having 2 satellite speakers (specs in the same website). Around 4 or 5 months back I replaced these 2 satellites with the new towers from Space India : TWR 6 (any one had an experience with space audio speakers?) and I replaced the surrounds with the front satellites. As per the spec it seems to be a good speaker except the impedance difference, 6ohms. My receiver's impedance is 8ohms and all other speakers in the setup are at 8ohms. With this pair I need to adjust the output level for each channel since the sensitivity of all other speakers are less than this. Anyways this improved the overall performance to a great extend. So my question is if I replace the front towers or all with some other well known brand, whether it will make a big difference or the difference will be marginal, like we need to carefully listen to find the difference.
Following is the spec sheet for the towers :
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@Particleman
Not yet decided about changing the current setup. Let us find whether it need an upgrade or not
If an upgrade is required, I will be planning to do it only after 5-6 months since my new apartment will be ready within 1 or 2 months and I had already invested ~250K for the TV and HTsetup.
One more discussion I just wanted to start, probably in a new thread. I am planning to do some acoustic treatment for the living room (size : 18 x 12 ft). My major concerns are with the look, the solution should not affect the living room design. My designer is suggesting one solution : using the golf balls. The golf balls are cut into half and will be fixed on the walls and on top of that we need to cover with some 6mm ply, basically he is making a cushion of air with a non transmitter of sound (cork ball) and the reflection from the ply will be less compared to the wall since the sound waves will be reflected more from a rigid surface. Currently I am planning to make a small bookshelf (that gel with the design) with some acoustic ceiling tiles inside (with the same color as the bookshelf) at the primary and secondary reflection points. Books can absorb a lot of sound waves. Is there anyone with a good and an economic solution for this? If we get some thread we can develop on that and it will be useful for others also.
24th April 2008, 08:42 PM
But hey, I did had a point though
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