Hi folks, here is my dedicated HT setup. It is in a room designed specifically for these large electrostats and an infinite baffle sub. The room has significant acoustic treatments based on careful analysis and measurements. The front sidewall treatments are custom featuring an ESL motif with stator panels integrated into the deign
The speakers are highly customized MartinLogans, not a single one is stock, they all run off a sophisticated active crossover and multi-amp setup. I wanted a high performance center channel, so I designed and built my own large-format ESL center that sits behind the AT screen.
Designed to be a reference-grade multichannel audio system first, the rig delivers amazing results on the high-rez recordings from Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree and others). It's also not bad as an HT for movies with a 4K JVC projector.
Here are the pics and full gear list:
Note that the CRT is gone and replaced by the JVC digital PJ now.
Here is a pic of my custom center, which lives behind the screen. This was taken just after the build, the wall behind it is fully treated now.
Speakers are:
Fronts: MartinLogan Monolith IIIx - Custom woofers, new panels ('06)
Center: MartinLogan / JonFo SL3XC - Custom center channel,
build thread hereRears: MartinLogan Sequel IIb's
Sides: Mirage OmniSat FX
Sub: Custom in-room manifold Infinite Baffle using 4x AV15 drivers
The list of gear:
- Denon AVP-A1HDci Processor
- Sanders Sound systems ESL amp 2x330 for Monolith panels.
- Sunfire Cinema Grand Signature 5x400 for center and rear panels
- Sunfire Cinema Grand 5x200 for sides, rear woofers and center mid-bass array
- Sunfire stereo 2x200 for Monolith Woofers
- Crown XLS602 2x600 (4Ohm) for Infinite Baffle sub
- DBX DriveRack 260 speaker processor (Rears )
- DBX DriveRack 4800 speaker processor (Monolith,SL3XC, sub, tactile transducer)
- Guitamer Buttkicker 1000w amp and Tactile Transducer (on couch)
- Denon DVD2930ci Universal player
- Toshiba HD-A35 HD-DVD player
- Oppo BD-103 Blu-Ray player / Network player
- Sony PlayStation3 - Netflix and other streamed content and Games (GT HD)
- DirecTV HR20-700 High Definition DSS DVR (x2)
- Pioneer Elite CLD-97 (w/AC-3 upgrade) LaserDisc player
- HTPC - quad core, 3GB w/ATI 4750 video card with HDMI and HDMI audio (bitstreams HD formats)
- JVC DLA-RS4810 4K front projector
- Darbee Darblet video processor
- Stewart Studiotek 130 micro-perf acoustically transparent screen
- Mostly BlueJeansCable sourced interconnects and speaker cable
- Full home and AV automation controller based on HomeSeer, Zwave lighting, GlobalCache IR and relay control, Philips Hue system
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RealTraps and RPG Acoustics room treatments
- Custom acoustic treatments
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Balanced Power subsystem- Salamander Design racks (twin 7' units) in dedicated,
cooled equipment room
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