sweetvar26
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Hey guys, I've been wanting to post on here for a while and I guess it is time for me to take a step and start a thread rather than discussing individually with members. My wife and I, we bought an apartment in Hyderabad recently and we will move in around April of 2019 and may be earlier if we are lucky. We decided mutually not to have a separate home theater.
So the end game is to set up a 7.2.4 system down the line in the living room, I know that it won't be as efficient as having a home theater but this is the best I can do. I'm initially going for a 7.1.4 set up and adding a sub down the line and upgrading the speakers/equipment if necessary. Here is the layout of the living room and also the speaker drawing that I've got on which there might be few changes.
Here is the speaker drawing that I'm possibly going with. If necessary I can switch the surrounds all the way back to the bar counter area but not sure if it will work well. As you can see I'm not doing two couches from the above drawing, just one couch towards the TV wall on right and the bar counter on the far left wall.
Speakers set up
2 - Left and Right floorstanding
3 - Center channel
6 & 7 - Surrounds
5 & 8 - Atmos in ceiling speakers
4- Subwoofer but I might move it to the bottom right corner wall which I felt is a better position.
First of all there are some constraints with the area. The entrance is from the foyer area, that stretch of walkway is 6 ft width past the living room area and it's length goes all the way towards the bedroom. The living room alone is 18ft in width and around 36ft in length. That gives an approximate 650 SqFt in area. The living room also openly expands into the dining area as seen in the drawing. Due to the aesthetics or the preferences by the wife, I can't have closing for the living room, so it will be open towards the dining area. We also have a bar area coming up behind the couch area and next to the entrance wall of the apartment(foyer).
Another hindrance are the surround speakers. I was looking at the Monitor Audio silver line and few others and the surrounds are fairly big in size. They will have to be ceiling hanging speakers and with the ceiling height being around 8 ft 6inches, I don't think it would be practical to have large surrounds hanging from the ceiling. So at least for a start, I want to limit the surrounds to something compact if I can.
With all this said, the target audience is the center of the cough or the cough area which is where I sit and also the only area I'm targeting. As for acoustics, I'm getting some insulation done in the ceiling and looking at other options for the subwoofer and going for some thick curtains. The flooring is marble and is already done so I haven't given a priority for it as of right now but I do want to go for engineered wood down the line just for the living room area all the way till the bar counter. Another downside is I can run the wiring through the flooring right now, so whatever speakers I set up would have to be through the ceiling.
Now let us go for the set up. I'm a movie and video games person more than music. I do listen to music but my movies & games:music will be around 75:25. So my focus is to go after a set up that will give me the better movie/gaming experience over music. I already have around 50 4K UHD movies and I can't stop buying them. Netflix and Prime are also watched a lot by my wife and I, though she doesn't care for Dolby Atmos/Vision. As for the equipment, I already own an Xbox One X(4K player), PS4 Pro, Amazon 4K stick but that is pretty useless now with the gaming systems that I have and a smart tv. Again due to personal reasons I decided to stick with a TV in the space and I've already purchased a 65 LG C8 OLED, I've been wanting to get an OLED for the last few years and decided it is time I go for it. I got a steal deal as well, at least from the pricing that I've been following over the years.
I've felt Atmost speakers aren't a priority right now, thought I'd invest for something better down the line. I did look into the RSL 34E ceiling speakers for Atmos but they weren't in stock during the blackfriday sale and my friend who gave an entire suitcase for me coming from abroad, I had to go for something cheaper but decent option through theMicca 8C ceilign speakers. They were much cheaper getting through America and no regrets even if they aren't up to the mark.
Receiver, I already bought the Marantz SR8012, their flagship model and this is going to continue all the way till the end of 2019.
As for the rest of the equipment, which would be a LCR, 4 surrounds and a subwoofer, my budget is around 2.5L-3L. I can stretch if necessary but I feel I should go for the best bang for the buck set up for now and then upgrade eventually, I'm 32, fairly young at least from what I consider and yeah plenty of time ahead. My wife or my sister might be going to America soon, so I can import the surrounds from there and obviously the pricing would be much better over there.
L, C and R, I'm completely undecided. I've been running in circles with the set up. Initially I wanted a full on Monitor Audio 7.1 set up and may be change the subwoofer to SVS PB 2000, but all of them keep changing due to the surrounds space constraints and with my interior works going on, budgets have changed as well.
LCR's I have to buy them in India, so I'm looking at something that are the best bang for the buck floor standings. Subwoofer as well and I've heard the Velodyne ones are pretty well priced in India. Surrounds, as of right now I'm looking at something compact and that will go with the LCR, budget isn't an issue for the surrounds as I can import them from America.
Keep in mind I do have at least few months, so no rush, getting something from America isn't a big deal unless they are way our of size like the L,R and subwoofer. Even the center I can import from America I believe but I will probably just purchase it here, these centers are too big to pack.
TLDR; Thank you for taking time in reading and yes, suggestions and help is very much appreciated. So LCR and a sub first and then compact surrounds(ceiling hanged) that go with the LCR.
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So the end game is to set up a 7.2.4 system down the line in the living room, I know that it won't be as efficient as having a home theater but this is the best I can do. I'm initially going for a 7.1.4 set up and adding a sub down the line and upgrading the speakers/equipment if necessary. Here is the layout of the living room and also the speaker drawing that I've got on which there might be few changes.
Here is the speaker drawing that I'm possibly going with. If necessary I can switch the surrounds all the way back to the bar counter area but not sure if it will work well. As you can see I'm not doing two couches from the above drawing, just one couch towards the TV wall on right and the bar counter on the far left wall.
Speakers set up
2 - Left and Right floorstanding
3 - Center channel
6 & 7 - Surrounds
5 & 8 - Atmos in ceiling speakers
4- Subwoofer but I might move it to the bottom right corner wall which I felt is a better position.
First of all there are some constraints with the area. The entrance is from the foyer area, that stretch of walkway is 6 ft width past the living room area and it's length goes all the way towards the bedroom. The living room alone is 18ft in width and around 36ft in length. That gives an approximate 650 SqFt in area. The living room also openly expands into the dining area as seen in the drawing. Due to the aesthetics or the preferences by the wife, I can't have closing for the living room, so it will be open towards the dining area. We also have a bar area coming up behind the couch area and next to the entrance wall of the apartment(foyer).
Another hindrance are the surround speakers. I was looking at the Monitor Audio silver line and few others and the surrounds are fairly big in size. They will have to be ceiling hanging speakers and with the ceiling height being around 8 ft 6inches, I don't think it would be practical to have large surrounds hanging from the ceiling. So at least for a start, I want to limit the surrounds to something compact if I can.
With all this said, the target audience is the center of the cough or the cough area which is where I sit and also the only area I'm targeting. As for acoustics, I'm getting some insulation done in the ceiling and looking at other options for the subwoofer and going for some thick curtains. The flooring is marble and is already done so I haven't given a priority for it as of right now but I do want to go for engineered wood down the line just for the living room area all the way till the bar counter. Another downside is I can run the wiring through the flooring right now, so whatever speakers I set up would have to be through the ceiling.
Now let us go for the set up. I'm a movie and video games person more than music. I do listen to music but my movies & games:music will be around 75:25. So my focus is to go after a set up that will give me the better movie/gaming experience over music. I already have around 50 4K UHD movies and I can't stop buying them. Netflix and Prime are also watched a lot by my wife and I, though she doesn't care for Dolby Atmos/Vision. As for the equipment, I already own an Xbox One X(4K player), PS4 Pro, Amazon 4K stick but that is pretty useless now with the gaming systems that I have and a smart tv. Again due to personal reasons I decided to stick with a TV in the space and I've already purchased a 65 LG C8 OLED, I've been wanting to get an OLED for the last few years and decided it is time I go for it. I got a steal deal as well, at least from the pricing that I've been following over the years.
I've felt Atmost speakers aren't a priority right now, thought I'd invest for something better down the line. I did look into the RSL 34E ceiling speakers for Atmos but they weren't in stock during the blackfriday sale and my friend who gave an entire suitcase for me coming from abroad, I had to go for something cheaper but decent option through theMicca 8C ceilign speakers. They were much cheaper getting through America and no regrets even if they aren't up to the mark.
Receiver, I already bought the Marantz SR8012, their flagship model and this is going to continue all the way till the end of 2019.
As for the rest of the equipment, which would be a LCR, 4 surrounds and a subwoofer, my budget is around 2.5L-3L. I can stretch if necessary but I feel I should go for the best bang for the buck set up for now and then upgrade eventually, I'm 32, fairly young at least from what I consider and yeah plenty of time ahead. My wife or my sister might be going to America soon, so I can import the surrounds from there and obviously the pricing would be much better over there.
L, C and R, I'm completely undecided. I've been running in circles with the set up. Initially I wanted a full on Monitor Audio 7.1 set up and may be change the subwoofer to SVS PB 2000, but all of them keep changing due to the surrounds space constraints and with my interior works going on, budgets have changed as well.
LCR's I have to buy them in India, so I'm looking at something that are the best bang for the buck floor standings. Subwoofer as well and I've heard the Velodyne ones are pretty well priced in India. Surrounds, as of right now I'm looking at something compact and that will go with the LCR, budget isn't an issue for the surrounds as I can import them from America.
Keep in mind I do have at least few months, so no rush, getting something from America isn't a big deal unless they are way our of size like the L,R and subwoofer. Even the center I can import from America I believe but I will probably just purchase it here, these centers are too big to pack.
TLDR; Thank you for taking time in reading and yes, suggestions and help is very much appreciated. So LCR and a sub first and then compact surrounds(ceiling hanged) that go with the LCR.
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