Congrats! Was it a real blind buy or profx guys recommended them? Can you please tell how is the bass on your subwoofer?
I have been planning to set up a good 5.1 setup for the better part of 6-8 years now!
Being a salaried guy with a wife and 2 kids, a decent 5.1 setup is very soon pushed down to the bottom of priorities. :indifferent14:
You can never really have a real blind buy with the sheer amount of information that you are bombarded with.
I have been hanging around the net for many years devouring whatever information I could from HFV, AVS, AVForums, Blu-ray.com, even the Amazon.com reviews some which can be pretty informative. Finally you have to cut through all the sales spiel and get the actual info which only actual consumers with some audiophile knowledge can give.
The sales guy's only job is to sell and it is very rare to find a guy who will give you genuine advice. I had a very fixed budget and from an earlier demo I was very apprehensive about going in for Polk Audio and liked the KEF. The guy tried to push me on the KEF once he found it I liked the KEF but if I wanted the KEF I would have had to get smaller speakers, which in hindsight could have been disastrous. With the size of the room, i had to get the larger center, SW and I compromised on the surrounds(A4 instead of the A6) because I felt they are not used as much.
Whatever equipment you buy and install will only sound as good as the room it is installed in. I cannot stress that enough.
Like a good audiophile friend of mine said to me one time: "Finally you are just moving air. You need adequate equipment to move around the amount of air in your room."
Right now the subwoofer is put in the corner as you can see. It is calibrated at -5.5 dB level and the bass is huge. In the initial
setup the bass was really huge, all the windows were rattling etc. But now its much cleaner setting in only when really required. It sounds a little muddy (I prefer nice clean bass punch, anybody who has heard the Brand New Heavies, you know what I am talking about) But i think its more of a problem of the sub placement than an actual problem with the sub. I don't have the time nor patience for a
sub crawl just yet.
When I was living in a small flat in Coimbatore, I got a Sony HTiB (MRP Rs 19,900) and it sounded awesome and punchy.
When I came back home to Trivandrum, it just couldn't handle the ginormous hall (25'x15') So now the 5.1 is in the hall and the HTiB has been transferred to the bedroom where the kids hang out. 2 advantages: They can watch Chotta Bheem without bugging me and also keep their grubby hands off the AVR etc. (My daughter is extremely curious about Daddy's new toys)
