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...Set up some new Klipsch RP-8000F’s. My wife got home and cried, and yelled, and cried some more, saying she has no control over the living room. I immediately returned them and ordered some RF-7 iii’s. To be fair, she is the one who mentioned we needed a new tv....
Another Portland area Oregonian here who just joined.Very amused at the "cried/yelled/cried" comment. For our living room, I'd gotten some moderately large floorstanders a few years ago (Tekton Design Double Impact - a long story but pretty good all-in-all), and while it started with a bit of a similar experience, she then threw down the Gauntlet!I was told I had to wall-mount the TV and build a setup around them on the walls to make it look like an integrated thing so that the speakers didn't dominate the room, plus put all the A/V equipment into some simple yet acceptable cabinets. Considering I had a Yamaha RX-Z11 HT amp and then a Pass Labs X250.8 for detailed music listening, there wasn't really any prebuilt cabinets that fit.I'm really not a woodworker, but I managed to find some prebuilt sections on Ikea from their "BestA" series which I could use. To get enough depth in the cabinet for the components mentioned above, I used both a full-depth and half-depth version of the "BestA" components put together. The result was quite a production, enough that we christened it "The Theaterator" (kind of like a monster-truck name... my kid was into those at the time we built it like 3 1/2 years ago).Anyway, the
I like this look. [I'm also pretty sure my wife would hate it. There's no winning for me. ]
My wife and I co-designed it.
Lincoln City here with a big welcome. There are some mighty good people here in the land of rain, forests, rain, Tillamook cheese, rain, etc. (Lousy Spring here on the coast this year.) But thank goodness for good audio!Oh, and GO DUCKS! RJ
I am excited to embrace this hobby with so many interesting parts to learn about. I’ve been sucked into the rabbit hole and will need all the help I can get to navigate.Very vanilla to start, Klipsch RP speakers, Denon AVR, Rythmic sub and Amazon Music HD. I guess you could say HT is the focus right now but I do want to get the best music experience from my HT. I also plan on putting together a dedicated 2 channel sooner than later. I’ve never soldered a thing in my life but sure I will once I get my hands on an old speaker needing repair.Set up some new Klipsch RP-8000F’s. My wife got home and cried, and yelled, and cried some more, saying she has no control over the living room. I immediately returned them and ordered some RF-7 iii’s. To be fair, she is the one who mentioned we needed a new tv.All kidding aside, thanks in advance for your answers to all my dumb questions.
