OR... If you're a DIY kinda guy, there's ALOT of satisfaction to be had in building your own speakers. I'm obviously kinda an audiphille, and one little speaker that's BLOWN MY MIND is the adire audio/Exodus (adire builds them but exodus calls them theirs) CSSWR125s aka 4.5"wonderspeaker. I heard a pair of these running in small ported boxes running fullrange (no tweeter) and they truely blew me away. I kept looking for the other speakers. They can readily go toe to toe with most 5 or 6" + tweeter monitor speakers. I'd imagine making your own center channel with a couple of those as mids and putting a tweeter between them, you could fairly simply make a nice flat box that fits your area right, AND gives you about the best possible sound with wayless money. It'd even matchup alright with those other speakers if you kept them full-range or even added a simple silk tweeter. (until you can mange to do the rest of them) The speakers themselves sell for about 50bucks, and if you run them fullrange you don't even need crossover trickery. OR you can get a kit with a simple tweeter and crossover for like 80. as far as actual applied design advice there's a whole world of online forums to help with it all. http://www.acoustic-visions.com/~acoustic/products/speakers/complete_kits/kit_41.shtml
Need small center channel for home - please help!
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Posuer's right on with his advice. If you are keeping the Onkyo's I wouldn't touch a Klipsch speaker, the tonal balance will be way off and it'll stand out like a sore thumb. If you want to go in-wall I'd go with Niles, they are also bringing out an on wall plasma version, the PDH series, which will start at $349.99 next month. Niles would probably be a close match with the Onkyo's.
I will take a picture of the back wall for advice on the surrounds. I ran the wire to have head-high rear surrounds on either side of the living room. I was going to angle them at 45 degrees towards the middle of the room. I will draw up the room in CAD....
Generally you do not want to have the rear surrounds aiming at your listening position for movies and surround sound. You want to try to use a diffuse speaker design like a bi-pole or di-pole speaker. If on the other hand you are listening to 5.1 music like SACD or DVD-A then you do want the rears to be dirrectional and aiming at the seating position.
Seeing as you already have the rears and they are directional I woul at least try pointing them straight forward since the rear seating doesn't seem to be directly in line with them or even aiming them back towards the rear walls if you can bring them forward enough to let the sound splask off the wall without really screwing it up. Doesn't look like you have the space to do that though. Posuers idea of firing them towards each other with the couch moved forward might work well also.
Realistically with that room configuration you are not going to have anywhere near the 'perfect' placement for speakers so I would just work with what you have and see how it sounds to you.
Seeing as you already have the rears and they are directional I woul at least try pointing them straight forward since the rear seating doesn't seem to be directly in line with them or even aiming them back towards the rear walls if you can bring them forward enough to let the sound splask off the wall without really screwing it up. Doesn't look like you have the space to do that though. Posuers idea of firing them towards each other with the couch moved forward might work well also.
Realistically with that room configuration you are not going to have anywhere near the 'perfect' placement for speakers so I would just work with what you have and see how it sounds to you.
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Gt the full metal bracket for it. The bracket allows for adjustment in almost every direction. If you mount it right, you'll never see the bracket, and it'll appear to float on the wall.
Free shipping on everything. Full refund within 30 days if you don't like it.
GEt from factory outlet, save 10%. Factory outlet is not refurbished, but speakers that might have a small blemish on them. Truth is, I've yet to meet someone that actually got a factory outlet speaker with a scratch on it. I have all factory outlet speakers.
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I have the larger vp-150. One of the best detailed centers you'll find. Finish is awesome
my opinion, start getting rid of all the onkyo's, go with axioms, you'll never look back.
vp-100
Gt the full metal bracket for it. The bracket allows for adjustment in almost every direction. If you mount it right, you'll never see the bracket, and it'll appear to float on the wall.
Free shipping on everything. Full refund within 30 days if you don't like it.
GEt from factory outlet, save 10%. Factory outlet is not refurbished, but speakers that might have a small blemish on them. Truth is, I've yet to meet someone that actually got a factory outlet speaker with a scratch on it. I have all factory outlet speakers.
http://www.axiomaudio.com/vp100_main.html
I have the larger vp-150. One of the best detailed centers you'll find. Finish is awesome
my opinion, start getting rid of all the onkyo's, go with axioms, you'll never look back.
