The Sound Systems
16 October 2012 12:05 PM
I have three sound systems in my house.
One, I listen to daily as it is hooked up to my computer. It is the Logitech Z-680 5.1 THX sound system. Receiving optical digital from the Mac, I play my iTunes and the occasional DVD through it.
Two, is the Polk SurroundBar and matching subwoofer driven by an old Yamaha DSP-A1. This is mated to my downstairs TV. The display on the Yamaha is on the blink, and the receiver shuts off sometimes without warning. But this serves as a fine sound system where critical listening is not a requirement.
Three is the “big rig” in the home theater room upstairs. At the heart is the Denon 5803 A/V receiver. It’s old, but it has two sets of 7.1 discrete inputs, so I can get high-resolution multichannel sound from blu-ray and HD-DVD. As for speakers, I have a JBL N-Center (Northridge series), two JBL S120PII Studio Series subwoofers, and six JBL ND-310’s (Northridge series again). The ND-310’s are towers, and they work well for both MC music and movies. They are arrayed as left/right, surround, and surround back speakers. Thus, I have a full 7.1 sound system (and there are more blu-rays released in 7.1 sound every week, which the Oppo BDP-93 decodes).
One, I listen to daily as it is hooked up to my computer. It is the Logitech Z-680 5.1 THX sound system. Receiving optical digital from the Mac, I play my iTunes and the occasional DVD through it.
Two, is the Polk SurroundBar and matching subwoofer driven by an old Yamaha DSP-A1. This is mated to my downstairs TV. The display on the Yamaha is on the blink, and the receiver shuts off sometimes without warning. But this serves as a fine sound system where critical listening is not a requirement.
Three is the “big rig” in the home theater room upstairs. At the heart is the Denon 5803 A/V receiver. It’s old, but it has two sets of 7.1 discrete inputs, so I can get high-resolution multichannel sound from blu-ray and HD-DVD. As for speakers, I have a JBL N-Center (Northridge series), two JBL S120PII Studio Series subwoofers, and six JBL ND-310’s (Northridge series again). The ND-310’s are towers, and they work well for both MC music and movies. They are arrayed as left/right, surround, and surround back speakers. Thus, I have a full 7.1 sound system (and there are more blu-rays released in 7.1 sound every week, which the Oppo BDP-93 decodes).