4 speaker set up

[Tn]

Where do you guys put your rear speakers?

[Flangor]

Ummmmmmm Somewhere behind you? Like on a shelf pr somethin

[Steve C]

Sorry, but where else would rear speakers go? At very least, put them no further forward than you are.

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[Tn]

No,no, no I mean like do you guys have shelves directly behind your chair or do you put them on the ground or something?

[Flangor]

:0) I see said the deaf man.

Ya I have a bookshelf behind me so that they be at about the same lvl as the front speakers. Somehow or another you should try and get all four speakers about the same lvl

Peace out bru

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System specs: One bourbon, one scotch and one beer

[Thumper]

I don't have anything behind me so I took the little (2ft high) legs that came with my cambridge soundworks speakers and replaced them with wooden dowels and cut them to ear level when I'm sitting. Hey, it ain't pretty but is very effective.

[BrainPlastic]

I'm going to velcro them to the back wall... by the way, does anyone know anything about Creatives new Desktop Theater 5.1 2500? Supposed to have the speaker quality of the FPS 2000.

[Jammrock]

BrainPlastic,

Uh...no. Damn it, now I have to get the 5.1 2500 when it comes out, because the sub on the normal desktop theater 5.1 SUCKS and it cost $250 for the cheapest sub from Cambridge. Spam it all to Dell and back again.

Jammrock

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[merchant2]

well for my 2 cent's i took an old metal tapemeasure and cut it into 4 strips then i kitty corner the strips too my yammaha speakers i then screwed the things into the celing behind my chair angled down towards where i sit. now lately ive been thinking of building a booth useing hd partical board and sound proofing mat's intalling every thing in side includeing custom mounts for my controls
this would isolate me from every thing else but make upgradeing and tinkering with the system a pain unless i used extention cables and placed the case out side of the booth.

now i tell you is this going to far, to get a realistic experiance ? (i already took a bucket set out of a mazda car and im useing that as my chair

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[neo]

I have heard quite a few speakers made for computer soundcards, and they are really poor quality. As a self proclaimes audiophile I must mention tihat if you really want good sound, your money would be better spent buying an inexpensive home theater setup. Some may disagree, but I for one would not throw my $ away on "computer" speakers.

(my 2 cents)

-neo

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[Jon McGarry]

There are some good speaker buys though. I would shy away from those $99 Cambridge four-point surround speakers. The quality is not the best.

I've found that a good pair of Altec-Lansing speakers with sub-woofer (ACS-48) for the front, and 10-Watt Yamaha speakers for the rear make a good combination. The RMS output for the setup is 100 Watts (RMS, not Max!!), and you can put it together for under $200.

[Jammrock]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! while slamming skull against a brick wall

I was at Best Buy (US electronics/appliance/music store) and I saw them, I SAW THEM AND LISTENED TO THEM. The Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Theater 5.1 FSP25000's!!!!! There is a demo unit at Best BUY!!! The entire setup is jet black, including the AC-3 decoder box, and the subwoofer is bigger than the FSP2000's. It was playing a CD from a portable CD player, so not the best sound source, but man are those nice speakers. I actually heard bass instead of the muffled low humm that comes from the big white plastic box on my current Desktop Theater 5.1 system. They sound sweeeeet.

Grrrrrrrrrrrr...that really sucks. Speakers aren't supposed to go out of date for at least a year, not 6 months like video cards.

Jammrock

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[motub]

oooh Jammrock, I know you're upset but thank you thank you for that on-the-spot review...I have been haunting the <A HREF=news://news.soundblaster.com/creative.products.speakers" TARGET=_blank>news://news.soundblaster.com/creative.products.speakers</A> newsgroup for a couple months now, emailed cambridge etc., knew the speakers were near but was very afraid they'd have some fatal flaw (like the sub in the original Destop Theater). And for 250 smackeroos I didn't want to make a mistake.

Don't bang your head, you've done a great service.

Best BUY??? good gawd.

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