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From: "hunter" <andyhunter...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: 2 Sep 2005 15:29:23 -0700
Local: Fri, Sep 2 2005 6:29 pm
Subject: surround sound question
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I have a tricky situation and thought someone here might be able to
advise me.
I have 2 good, medium speakers. 2 small, bad speakers. One good looking
13x15 living room which is arranged in such a way that the front
speakers (next to the screen) cannot possibly fit in a respectable way.
There are antiques, paintings on the walls, it's pristine, and my
medium speakers just don't fit there at all. The bad speakers fit, but
they are $50 Sonys. Aesthetically I'd rather have no speakers there at
all. I can't rearrange the room. I keep the screen in the closet and
pop it up when I want to watch a movie. All electronics are hidden,
other than electric lights.
The center channel sits atop a molding and is pretty well hidden. The
subwoofer is also hidden. The receiver is a decent 5.1 capable
Sherwood.
These are my potential solutions, any comments welcome:
1. Use the Sonys as front speakers that make the room a bit
uglier, and
good rear speakers. This actually sounds fine for home theater but
really hurts me when I listen to CDs, which play out of the front (bad)
speakers instead of the rear (good and larger) speakers.
2. Use the good speakers only, with a center channel and
subwoofer. Set
the receiver to "no rear speakers." The good speakers in their
current position would be set as "front" but would actually be
about 12" behind and 3' to either side of my gal and I as we
watched movies. Aesthetically, this is the ideal solution and it's
also the best for CDs, but would I be ruining my audio experience?
3. Buy new, small, but high quality front speakers. These would
have to
be quite small to disappear like the center speaker does (about 6"
high). I'd be willing to spend the money, but if I did, my CDs would
play out of the little speakers instead of my beautiful big speakers
that only fit in the back of the room. Could I possibly get small
speakers that would deliver good CD sound? Or, is there a way to toggle
between front and rear speakers, where CDs would use the transpose the
front and rear sets?
Thanks for any advice or opinions you can give.
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