Systems

Home Theater on a low budget, a Home Theater System by Night Wolf

Room Size
17Lx13Wx7H
System Overview
ok, JVC=$180, KLH 17= $30, N-center/N24= free (gift) sub= $50 (out of my pocket for the driver, the amp was a gift) so really, for what? $250 or whatever I spent on this thing, I have no complaints, I mean, I can't for this price, for music it is OK, but for movies in 5.1 dts, I just get surprised all the time at how a whole bunch of low budget stuff thrown together can sound
Movie Preferences
comedy, action, anything as long as it's not boring (to me) usualy what ever is on TV
Room Description
rectangle room with 4 walls, a floor and ceiling, and 2 doors, and alotta electrical outlets and other stuff found in a room
Components
DVD or LaserDisc Player
Sony Playstation2
Satellite or Cable
Dish Network, with a EchoStar model 303 (I think) rec. this is one of the bottem feeder rec. not bad, but I really wish I had one with a digital output
Video Display
25" Sanyo plain jane
Signal Processors
whatever JVC found left over and dumped in the 6010
Preamp
JVC RX-6010 (set out to find a HT rec. with 3 things, 1) dts 2) dd, 3) the cheapest thing I could find, I wish I got PLII now, but oh well, so $180 later and I got a RX-6010, and I must say, for this price, there is just nothing to complain about with thi
Power Amp
the 5 discrete amps in the RX-6010
Speakers
main- KLH model 17 (made in '69 by Mr. Kloss himself, these are truly nice speakers) center- JBL N-center, rear- JBL N24
Subwoofer
cheap DIY 12" 150watt, now sealed enclouser sub
Speaker Cable
16ga. RS Mega Cable to main and center, and 12ga. home depot stuff in wall going to rear spealers
Interconnects
from PS2, the cheap cable Sony supplies with it, for the digital part, a $8/6' TOS link cable from ebay (pretty hard to belive that, audio wise, you can't get a better quality cable by spending more $$$ with TOSlink, heh) I forgot all the other cables, I
Power Cables
the lamp cord JVC stuck in the 6010
Headphones
headphones= Koss TD-61, amp= JVC-6010, but I never use the head phones
Racking
mutiple verticles on wall and DIY shelves made from 5/8" plywood
Tuning and Tweaks
ummm, I upgraded the DVD drivers in my PS2, does that count?