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New member Username: JbelliottPost Number: 1 Registered: Jun-06 | Hi, I've just moved into a new house with a big family room in which I'd like to set up a decent home theater with the equipment I already own (i.e. I just moved into a new house and don't have the cash to buy a good home theater system right now and I'm making do with what I've got). For a television, I've got a Panasonic CT-32HX42 which is a decent HDTV ready 32" flat screen (http://reviews.cnet.com/Panasonic_CT_32HX42/4505-6481_7-20578356.html) and for the audio I've got an Aiwa NSX-V70 (http://www.audioreview.com/cat/other/mini-systems/aiwa/PRD_117585_2749crx.aspx). Neither system is great, but the Panasonic has a good picture and the Aiwa has decent sound with DSP surround sound, BBE and so on. I've read the simple introdcutions to setting up a home theater (e.g. this one: http://www.audioholics.com/techtips/setup/loudspeakers/hometheaterspeakerlayout. php) but have a few questions about applying those ideas to the equipment I have. Specifically, the Aiwa I have has no "center channel speaker" and no subwoofer. It does have to smaller surround sound speakers and two larger front speakers. In my last house I had all four speakers on shelves about five feet high with the front speakers located above the corners of the television and the surround sound speakers a few feet further out from them, all along the same wall across from my couch. I had all kinds of problems hearing the dialog whenever I tried to use surround sound from the DVD player or from the television. My question is mostly about the lack of the "center channel speaker." If I set things up in the standard configuration, front speakers above the television and surround sound speakers slightly behind the couch, then will this give a decent audio experience? Will I be able to have all the nice surround sound effects and hear the dialog? In the past I've been disabling the speakers on the television, but I could enable those. If I did that, would they act as the "center channel speaker?" Additionally, is there a best configuration of sound settings on the DVD player, stereo system and television? Each seems to have a few different settings; e.g. surround on/off, BBE on/off etc. Any advice is welcome. Thanks. Jim |
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Silver Member Username: MccambleyBREEZY POINT, NY USA Post Number: 227 Registered: Jun-05 | Reading the audio review link on the Aiwa it sounds like you might be better off just hooking the DVD to the TV and junking that stereo. |
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New member Username: JbelliottPost Number: 2 Registered: Jun-06 | I doudt junking the stereo is the best idea. I actually got the model of the Aiwa wrong, but it's still not a great system, though it does the job. The television sound isn't all that hot, the gradation of the sound level is too course, for instance 8 (the display level of the sound) is too low and 9 is too high. The stereo allows for finer sound level control. |