Hot Dog! GF lets me install full 5.1 system!!

[Deleted member 4644]

I don't know how I got this lucky, but my girlfriend let me set up a 5.1 Polk Audio system at her apartment (I basically live there).

Left/Right: Monitor 60s floorstanding
Center: CS2
Rears: Monitor 30 bookshelf
Sub: Onkyo 320 Watt, 32hz

Reciever: Onkyo HT530, 7.1


It sounds GREAT so far. I was running it 3.1 for a while.

I just added the surrounds yesterday, and I have not really watched a movie with them yet. I have them on the floor behind the couch (hidden). Will that affect the surround sound much?

Oh, and it is all paired with a VIZIO 32".

I am trying to convince her to let me bring my Toshiba 42" over. 🙂

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Deleted member 4644
I have them on the floor behind the couch (hidden). Will that affect the surround sound much?

Yeah, that's not exactly ideal...

Not as big a deal since it's your surround speakers, but I imagine they'd be quite muffled back there. Can you take one out and try to put it in a normal position so you can determine the difference in how it sounds yourself?

 

[cheesehead]

Your SO won't like it, but you can make cheapie speaker stands out of threaded iron pipe and those little round plates with threaded bits on one side - they sell 'em at Home Depot. Not attractive, but it's hard to argue with the durability.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Originally posted by: Cheesehead
Your SO won't like it, but you can make cheapie speaker stands out of threaded iron pipe and those little round plates with threaded bits on one side - they sell 'em at Home Depot. Not attractive, but it's hard to argue with the durability.

I.. don't want to push it too hard.. lol

I use pipe for speaker stands, I won't be laying pipe anywhere else for a while, see.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: Deleted member 4644

Originally posted by: Cheesehead
Your SO won't like it, but you can make cheapie speaker stands out of threaded iron pipe and those little round plates with threaded bits on one side - they sell 'em at Home Depot. Not attractive, but it's hard to argue with the durability.

I.. don't want to push it too hard.. lol

I use pipe for speaker stands, I won't be laying pipe anywhere else for a while, see.

Paint it pink, she'll love it.

 

[sivart]

or at least angle the speakers on the floor...couldn't make it worse....might actually bounce off the ceiling/walls a little.

 

[BornStar]

I was really short on space for my rears so I laid them on their backs on the floor. It's certainly not ideal but it provides some of the desired effect. Just make sure your speakers aren't rear ported.

 

[CocoGdog]

Oh yeah, my girlfriend lets me do all sorts of stuff to her body.