sivakumars
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I'm new to hifivision but always have been great fan of music and audio. Now I'm into one of my biggest dreams of building a dedicated home theatre. It has been a year since I started after completing the construction of my house.
Room Dimensions: 10.5 ft(W) * 16 ft(L) * 11 ft(H)
Visual: I didnt like projectors as I prefer picture quality than size and I couldn't resist the clarity of OLED's. So bought a LG G2 65 inch TV last year which is wall mounted.
Room Acoustics: My room is not yet fully treated with acoustic panels, but I'm making DIY acoustic panels iteratively, will stop when I feel the sound is not improving anymore. Yet to start building the bass traps. Currently I have enough panels to watch movies with clear sound reproduction with out lot of echos. Only problem is low end reverbs. Will add bass traps to all the corners soon. Yet to put carpet(only if needed after filling the room with enough panels, if find a need to still reduce echo's, i'll. As I have a kid playing in that room almost all day, he used to spill lot of stuff on the floor and carpets will make cleaning a nightmare). I didnt go for full room acoustics as I've a tight budget and not interested in spending a lot on looks and asthetics of the room.
Current sound system: I have a sony HTIB system BDV-E4100 bought 7 years back. Using it for time being. Plugged it to TV and leveraging TV's streaming capabilities which I'm intending to continue to use even after setting AVR for sometime until I get a dedicated player such as NVIDIA shield TV PRO.
Couch: Have an old recliner, need to replace it later.
Attaching the current photos of the room here:
As I continue to improve the acoustics by adding panels and bass traps, I decided to buy sound system AVR and 5.1 speakers to start with and add atmos speakers after a year or so. For the dimension of the room I believe 5.2.2 layout is more than enough. Please correct me if I'm wrong or adding surround back provide more value.
The current thinking is placing the surround speakers slightly behind the couch (as it is mounted currently) just to avoid very close proximity of speakers for one seat in the couch. That's y adding another pair of surround speakers would be problematic. Considering a layout like the below one:
So thinking about getting a 7.2 channel receiver. Please suggest me whether I should consider 9.2 instead.
My budget is around 1.5 lakh(already spent 70% of my overall budget in TV
fell for the stunning brightness and color depth) for both AVR and speaker package. I prefer better sound quality over more number of channels in the layout. But if adding more channels improves quality, then I would like to consider that.
I have the following questions:
1. Should I go for 7.2 channel receiver or 9.2 for this size of a room?
2. What is the wattage of AVR's enough for this room and speakers enough for this room? (I kind of feel like the current HTIB system volume itself enough, i dont think i need a louder system than this one. sometimes with some movies in the streaming platforms, the sound is very low. But with good quality audio, im not turning volume more than 85%). I Like Denon X1700H and it suits well within my budget. But not sure 80 watts enough for my room size and be as louder as the sony HTIB system. Not able to predict because the HTIB system have 3 ohm speakers rated as 125 watts each. So not sure it will be equivalent to 80 watts 8ohms.
3. I watch lot of movies and series. And also listen to music sometimes. Should I consider tower speaker for front or book shelf is enough? I have an edifier R1850DB studio monitors and feel like even though it sounds great, it lacks mid while listening to some songs. That is the reason for thinking about 3 way towers for Front speakers. I like POLK elite series.. I that wont fit in my budget, I'm okay to get only LCR first and then add surrounds.
Thanks so much for patiently reading so far and helping me out. I thought of providing as much context as possible, coz I'm not very good at audio basics and providing enough context get me more relevant answers.
Note: Open to consider used AVR's and speakers (but not sure whether it will be reliable as I don't have much knowledge about speakers and AVR's even to check whether the used one's are in good condition).
I'm new to hifivision but always have been great fan of music and audio. Now I'm into one of my biggest dreams of building a dedicated home theatre. It has been a year since I started after completing the construction of my house.
Room Dimensions: 10.5 ft(W) * 16 ft(L) * 11 ft(H)
Visual: I didnt like projectors as I prefer picture quality than size and I couldn't resist the clarity of OLED's. So bought a LG G2 65 inch TV last year which is wall mounted.
Room Acoustics: My room is not yet fully treated with acoustic panels, but I'm making DIY acoustic panels iteratively, will stop when I feel the sound is not improving anymore. Yet to start building the bass traps. Currently I have enough panels to watch movies with clear sound reproduction with out lot of echos. Only problem is low end reverbs. Will add bass traps to all the corners soon. Yet to put carpet(only if needed after filling the room with enough panels, if find a need to still reduce echo's, i'll. As I have a kid playing in that room almost all day, he used to spill lot of stuff on the floor and carpets will make cleaning a nightmare). I didnt go for full room acoustics as I've a tight budget and not interested in spending a lot on looks and asthetics of the room.
Current sound system: I have a sony HTIB system BDV-E4100 bought 7 years back. Using it for time being. Plugged it to TV and leveraging TV's streaming capabilities which I'm intending to continue to use even after setting AVR for sometime until I get a dedicated player such as NVIDIA shield TV PRO.
Couch: Have an old recliner, need to replace it later.
Attaching the current photos of the room here:
As I continue to improve the acoustics by adding panels and bass traps, I decided to buy sound system AVR and 5.1 speakers to start with and add atmos speakers after a year or so. For the dimension of the room I believe 5.2.2 layout is more than enough. Please correct me if I'm wrong or adding surround back provide more value.
The current thinking is placing the surround speakers slightly behind the couch (as it is mounted currently) just to avoid very close proximity of speakers for one seat in the couch. That's y adding another pair of surround speakers would be problematic. Considering a layout like the below one:
So thinking about getting a 7.2 channel receiver. Please suggest me whether I should consider 9.2 instead.
My budget is around 1.5 lakh(already spent 70% of my overall budget in TV
fell for the stunning brightness and color depth) for both AVR and speaker package. I prefer better sound quality over more number of channels in the layout. But if adding more channels improves quality, then I would like to consider that.I have the following questions:
1. Should I go for 7.2 channel receiver or 9.2 for this size of a room?
2. What is the wattage of AVR's enough for this room and speakers enough for this room? (I kind of feel like the current HTIB system volume itself enough, i dont think i need a louder system than this one. sometimes with some movies in the streaming platforms, the sound is very low. But with good quality audio, im not turning volume more than 85%). I Like Denon X1700H and it suits well within my budget. But not sure 80 watts enough for my room size and be as louder as the sony HTIB system. Not able to predict because the HTIB system have 3 ohm speakers rated as 125 watts each. So not sure it will be equivalent to 80 watts 8ohms.
3. I watch lot of movies and series. And also listen to music sometimes. Should I consider tower speaker for front or book shelf is enough? I have an edifier R1850DB studio monitors and feel like even though it sounds great, it lacks mid while listening to some songs. That is the reason for thinking about 3 way towers for Front speakers. I like POLK elite series.. I that wont fit in my budget, I'm okay to get only LCR first and then add surrounds.
Thanks so much for patiently reading so far and helping me out. I thought of providing as much context as possible, coz I'm not very good at audio basics and providing enough context get me more relevant answers.
Note: Open to consider used AVR's and speakers (but not sure whether it will be reliable as I don't have much knowledge about speakers and AVR's even to check whether the used one's are in good condition).
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