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Wow

Posted by 4season on August 31, 2007 at 19:31:00

In Reply to: What are you using for your cinema sound? posted by 4season on August 30, 2007 at 16:59:28:

(my earlier posting seems to have gotten lost in the ether, so here it is again in simplified form)

Thanks folks! I hadn't thought to go with efficient, full-range speakers all 'round, but to the extent that I can comfortably squeeze that into my tiny (118 x 104 INCH) TV room, I'd like to give that a try. And I'd like a *sense* of having low bass without actually rattling the walls and waking the neighbors!

Some speakers that currently interest me (mostly itty bitty speakers + woofer)
Energy RC-Mini
Energy Act6
DIY Xpress Nightingale (just a 3" full-range Tang-Band driver in a ported box)
Mission M-Cube
Monitor Audio R45
Speaker City Peanut
Horn Shoppe horns (doesn't make center speakers though)
Home-made 4.5 liter cabinets w/3" Fostex full range drivers
Hsu Research Enthusiast 1 package (horn-loaded tweeters! But maybe too much speaker for such a tiny space?)
Linn Sizmik subwoofer (the smaller 10-incher, which still seems like an awful lot of woofer for the tiny space?)
Home-made 8" subwoofer per plans in current Audio Xpress magazine: Plate amplifier forms the entire back of the cabinet!

Electronics
Much as I'd love to try a Naim n-Vi all-in-one package the DVD may be wasted on me (no multi region?) it costs several thou, and it doesn't do HDMI or much of any other onboard audio processing. And my HD DVD and Blu-Ray players only support 2-channel sound from the analog outputs. Yet I'm really reluctant to swap out my Sony PS/3 in particular because I think it may be *the* most future-proof and compatible B-D player. Hence I want to try using HDMI 1.3x for the audio connection

It's kind a whale, but this receiver interests me because it supports the high-def audio formats via HDMI, has 3 HDMI inputs, and what the heck, it seems to also act as a networked music device similar to Slim Device's Transporter, and I already have a media server full of lossless audio just waiting for something of the sort. It also costs a bit less than Transporter.

Denon AVR-3808ci
http://usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3510.asp

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