Questions on HT, from a guy that knows nothing about it.

bondslex

I wish you well...

jbooker82

rpf65 wrote: »

I would suggest you get an entry level AVR, and don't worry about pre-outs right now. Best Buy open box for 300 or less, an a good manufacturer for instance.

For $399 you can get an Onkyo TX-NR709 that will have pre outs.

naturallight

rfp65, your probably right. If i went to listen to sound bars.."for music", i would like none of them.

But thats why i have SDA's, big amps, and tube CD player. If i want to listen to the Allman live i go down to the basement. I can spend hours down there.

But movies, on a TV.....ALL i care about is hearing the dialog, with out having to turn the volume up and down, because the music, from some jerk producer who seemed to think the music should overpower the dialog. I don't care. It should be back round stuff and nothing more, as far as i'm concerned.

To be Honest...I'm sure i don't really care if these speakers are timber matched or not. I'm not listening to music....thats why I have a big buck STEREO system down stairs...all i want is decent dialog, and music that i don't have to mess with as far as volume..thats all...nothing more..Period!

If i can get away with a pretty cheap AVR, use the Advents and buy a CSi a4 for the center.

And this solves the Dialog VS Music problem..then i'm a HAPPY camper.

gudnoyez

Yeah you are right why let the RTI12s, and the Advents sit Idle? Get a decent AVR and a bigger center than the a4, say an a6 or what ever center is recommended with the 12's.

rpf65

I'll confess, I've only heard Advents a couple of times for very short periods. The CSI A4 is a fairly bright speaker, so dialogue is very clear and pronounced. I only suggested this speaker because of the music/dialogue/director comment.

I'm running a 5.1 set-up using a Yamaha RX-V571, RTI A5's, CSI A4, and RTI A1's. For the price, about $250, it's a very capable reciever. I don't think I would run a 7.1 on it, but then again that doesn't seem to be what you're looking for. An entry level reciever will probably be fairly close to the 2 channel driven specs, if your just going to stay with a 3.1 configuration. Maybe within 15% of the rating.

With the high end AVR's going to 11.x configuration, a 5.1 can be found fairly cheap.

leftwinger57

How old are the Advents, I do hear that if the speakers aren't sheilded then they will interfer w/ your new tv. Just something else to consider when it's all sorted out.

tonyb

naturallight wrote: »

Now i'm not an HT nut, not sure if i really care about it that much at all. BUT, the movies and stuff, the volume on the dialog is to low the music is to loud, a major pain in the butt. I have to sit with the volume control in my hand, going up and down on it. So there must be a better solution to this.

This is the issue, not a center channel or surround bar. Look, movies are all not created equal. What you describe is the differences in the way movies are recorded. Most modern receivers have some aspect of a night mode which compresses the sound a tad so as not to get those big swings in voices and music. Still that may not do it for you on every movie. A center channel speaker once hooked up to a HT receiver is able to have it's own volume raised or lowered. You could do that on the fly too with most AVR's.

The other problem is matching the center to the Advents. The sound needs to be in the same family as your front left and right or it will sound funky, localized. Maybe another advent speaker from the same model line ? You could most likely pick one up off of craigslist on the cheap. Which leaves a HT receiver. Get the most you can afford with pre-outs. The HT receiver is your control hub for everything.

Of course your other option is to sell everything and start from scratch. Those 12's your not using will bring in some coin.

naturallight

Thats right, throw gas on an already out of control fire...LOL The Advents are the newer anniversary models, probably built in the early 90's (maybe) I can find no info on these pertaining to being shielded or not. I was under the "assumption" shielding does not effect a plasma TV only a CRT.

But I could be 100% wrong on this.

gudnoyez

You at least owe yourself a demo of that Zvox 580 you would be surprised just bring your favorite blu ray concert along, and a good movie to demo it with, the 580 is bigger than you think

rpf65

Non-shielded speakers will affect a CRT, but not plasma, LED, or LCD. You should be fine running the Advents.

naturallight

Thanks rpf, at least that solves 1 problem. The issue with timber matching..i just don't know. Maybe some baby Advent, but they don't use anything like the tweeter that's in the large ones. It's pretty much a crap shoot. I could just call Polk and ask them if they have a clue about what model center may be close to the Advent. Can't hurt to ask. The only other thing would be to look around on AV forums, see if anybody else is running the Advents for mains and what center they use.

Ricardo

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