Hi all,
I have bought a new 3BHK house in Mumbai. Currently the interior works are going on. Wiring work has just started. I need help on planning the entertainment set up for both my living room and master bedroom. Below are few details –
1. Room Size : The living room comprising of the living area and the dining area. The living area which would have the entertainment system has dimension of 16 ft X 14 ft X 9’5 ft. The wall on which the TV would be hung is 16 ft while the viewing distance would be 14 ft or a little less. I have excluded the dining area.
2. Television : I am planning to buy LG OLED 55 or Sony 4K 65
3. AV Receiver : I am planning to buy Marantz SR 6011. I expect to use it 80% of the time for watching movies and the balance 20% for listening to music
4. 5.1 Home Theatre : Player : I have zeroed down to Wharfedale Diamond 230 floorstanding speakers, 220 Centre Channel Speakers, 10 DFS Rear/surround speakers & Wharfedale D -10 subwoofer. I have been strongly recommended to check out the SVS SB-100 sub woofer as a upgrade to the Wharfedale D-10 subwoofer, though I am yet to take a demo.
5. Currently I have an Onkyo HT bought about 8 years ago. The movies that I play in my living room in the present house are stored in a Seagate 2TB drive. This is connected to the USB slot of my Philips BlueRay Player viz Philips BDP2900. I do not have any Blueray discs. The sole purpose of using the BDP2900.
6. I also have a Xbox 360 (bought 6 years ago) which I move from my old house to my new house.
7. Also in my current bedroom I have a 1TB iOmega Media Player (which has my downloaded movies) which is connected to by LED Tv though HDMI Cable. However for the new house, I plan to install 2 in-ceiling speakers in the bedroom. I want to have the option of getting the output of the Set top box / I omega Media player / Radio onto the 2 speakers. I believe I would have to buy a AVR (which has built in radio) for this
While I have listed down what I want, there are the following issues that I am facing
1. A few days ago the iOmega media player that I use my master bedroom konked off. While I searched for similar media players, I realized that these have gone out of the market given that newer technologies such as streaming have become popular. Fortunately for me, the vendor from whom I have bought the iOmega media player was able to repair the motherboard which had become faulty.
2. Operationally it is a headache to remember to copies all my new movies in both the i-Omega Media player and the Seagate drive (to be able to watch them in both the living and master BR)
I was recommended to look at Synology / QNAP NAS as a solution to have all my movies / music / photos at one location. This solution has been given by my office IT guys who understands networking but has no idea about integrating the same with the AV system.
So here are a few questions. I hope I am able to get a solution from this forum
1. Will NAS help me achieve a solution which takes away the need to keep multiple copies of the same movies to play on different devices.
2. Will I still need an interface such as Blue Ray player in both my rooms to play movies from the NAS to the 5.1 set up in the living room and the 2 speaker set up in the master BR.
3. Given that investment in NAS will take anywhere between 30k-50k by itself, is there any better / cheaper solution to play all my movies/music.
I have bought a new 3BHK house in Mumbai. Currently the interior works are going on. Wiring work has just started. I need help on planning the entertainment set up for both my living room and master bedroom. Below are few details –
1. Room Size : The living room comprising of the living area and the dining area. The living area which would have the entertainment system has dimension of 16 ft X 14 ft X 9’5 ft. The wall on which the TV would be hung is 16 ft while the viewing distance would be 14 ft or a little less. I have excluded the dining area.
2. Television : I am planning to buy LG OLED 55 or Sony 4K 65
3. AV Receiver : I am planning to buy Marantz SR 6011. I expect to use it 80% of the time for watching movies and the balance 20% for listening to music
4. 5.1 Home Theatre : Player : I have zeroed down to Wharfedale Diamond 230 floorstanding speakers, 220 Centre Channel Speakers, 10 DFS Rear/surround speakers & Wharfedale D -10 subwoofer. I have been strongly recommended to check out the SVS SB-100 sub woofer as a upgrade to the Wharfedale D-10 subwoofer, though I am yet to take a demo.
5. Currently I have an Onkyo HT bought about 8 years ago. The movies that I play in my living room in the present house are stored in a Seagate 2TB drive. This is connected to the USB slot of my Philips BlueRay Player viz Philips BDP2900. I do not have any Blueray discs. The sole purpose of using the BDP2900.
6. I also have a Xbox 360 (bought 6 years ago) which I move from my old house to my new house.
7. Also in my current bedroom I have a 1TB iOmega Media Player (which has my downloaded movies) which is connected to by LED Tv though HDMI Cable. However for the new house, I plan to install 2 in-ceiling speakers in the bedroom. I want to have the option of getting the output of the Set top box / I omega Media player / Radio onto the 2 speakers. I believe I would have to buy a AVR (which has built in radio) for this
While I have listed down what I want, there are the following issues that I am facing
1. A few days ago the iOmega media player that I use my master bedroom konked off. While I searched for similar media players, I realized that these have gone out of the market given that newer technologies such as streaming have become popular. Fortunately for me, the vendor from whom I have bought the iOmega media player was able to repair the motherboard which had become faulty.
2. Operationally it is a headache to remember to copies all my new movies in both the i-Omega Media player and the Seagate drive (to be able to watch them in both the living and master BR)
I was recommended to look at Synology / QNAP NAS as a solution to have all my movies / music / photos at one location. This solution has been given by my office IT guys who understands networking but has no idea about integrating the same with the AV system.
So here are a few questions. I hope I am able to get a solution from this forum
1. Will NAS help me achieve a solution which takes away the need to keep multiple copies of the same movies to play on different devices.
2. Will I still need an interface such as Blue Ray player in both my rooms to play movies from the NAS to the 5.1 set up in the living room and the 2 speaker set up in the master BR.
3. Given that investment in NAS will take anywhere between 30k-50k by itself, is there any better / cheaper solution to play all my movies/music.