16vmarc

Arriving a week on thursday is the following:

32" Widescreen tv
DVDplayer
VCR
Sub
Speakers etc

All Sony, just short of 900. Theyre coming to set the lot up for us and mount the speakers around the room.

CKY2K

Nice one mate

Buy King Arthur Directors Cut (came out this week) should be a good film to give the sub a test.

what would scooby do

What's a VCR

16vmarc

Im contemplating either Aliens or Star Wars at the moment

Although Bullit will be getting some serious testing too

CKY2K

When we got our home cinema I used the Jurassic Park bit hwere the T-Rex footsteps are shown in the glass on water to set the sub up - very noisy

what would scooby do

Aliens box set is ace

16vmarc

I watched all four films over 3 nights last week lol, just got 5 discs of extras to go through now!!!

hades

I always liked Sony TVs - they never seem to make bad ones.

Having recently gone through the star wars trilogy myself on my set-up - the digitally remastered picture is a serious improvement. The sound is clearly a little "old technology" recording in places IMHO, but still decent.

One of the best tests for the sound part of the set-up IMHO is the new CD/DVD release by J-M Jarre "Aero". Picture is boring as hell, but the sound (particularly the steering of it) is really quite something if the speakers etc are up to decent musical stuff. I wouldn't bother with the CD recording, but defo worth it in DVD mode.

16vmarc

T4molie

Nice Although I doubt it'll be long before you're looking to upgrade the sub

I have a Sony setup as well (well I'm just waiting for my 32" Toshiba TV to blow up before I can complete the Sony setup )

Sub wise I ended up upgrading mine to one of these suckers.... all 1000W of it

messiah

The Pod Race from Phantom Menace is Superb for showing off surround sound - as is the lobby shootout from the Matrix.

Get yourself some decent interconnects mate, makes a world of difference.

prodriva

if your systems support DTS get Toy Story 1 & 2 and Finding Nemo. Seriously, they really do have superb sound and IMO DTS is the best at showing what good surround sound is all about.

For a really really good test of your system especially the sub get the Band of Brothers box set. I think its disk 3 and the episode "Carrantan" where the soldiers are enduring severe cold and snow and are under constant mortar attack. One minute its deadly quite the next theres a whistle and then your house shakes to the sound of the mortar round exploding. Awesome stuff.

hail-hail

I'm sure when I first put my setup in, the neigbours were sick of the lobby shooting scene from the Matrix, it could make the wine glasses clink together in my kitchen, which is two rooms away.

Will need to try the Pod race now

Iwan

Try the 1st 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan - i reckon that's even better than the lobby shootout from the Matrix.

T4molie

Deffo agree... that'll get all your speakers working

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

I think I will buy one of those DVD players with the Home cinema amp and speakers, waiing on getting an extension one for a proper set up but in the meantime are they worth the effort, they seem to do all the formats apart from THX, any suggestions as to what model ?

messiah

A mate of mine got an all in one system from Pioneer about a year ago for a little over 200 notes - I set it up for him and was pretty impressed, for the money he paid I couldn't fault it.

http://www.soundandvisiononline.com/...roduct_id=5169

was a bit annoyed as he got it for less than what I paid for a centre speaker...

ScoobyJawa

You want to check out the Denon DHT 500SD and DHT 550SD. The former came out top in a What Hi-Fi test, the latter is the newer version. I bought one since it was 5 stars, and its fecking superb. The sound quality is superb, plays radio too (almost eliminated my use of my stereo), 100w per channel output, upgradeable to 7.1 etc etc etc. Only downside is a passive sub, but its good enough for my smallish room, a bigger room would need active IMHO.

Any suggestions on active subs? prices?

scooby L

Had a Pioneer XV 550 for 2 years...always impressed with the sound that produced...

But

I have just took delivery of my new Denon AVR1905 receiver..260 notes
Warfdale X12 sub.... 120 notes

and bought a second hand Dennon 2800 MkII DVD player off ebay 270 notes

Connected them up to my Elac's and WOW...what a difference...