HT of your dreams...

[wout]

Imagine you have a basement room without windows sized 27ft wide by 22 deep and 8 high. You can do anything you want from there including any prewiring, accoustic control, furniture, and of course systems components. What would you want in your room. Please be specific as this is the situation I am in and I hope to get some good ideas. Budget? It is not so much a matter of money as value for money which I would define as mid to lower high end. Top end is great but costs more than it may be worth and low end can too easily be improved upon. Where is that fine line of great performance for the accomodating buck?

So far I am looking at Anthem 20 v2 and M&K speakers.

Dream on and let me know what is in your hearts...

[Azeke]

Wout,

First of all welcome to the Guide.

I'll make this easy, this is what I would do.

Dream Theater

May the force be with you,

Azeke

[aud19]

My "Dream Theatre" would likely have processing and power from the likes of Lexicon/Bryston/Classe etc. Three monoblocks for the L/C/R channels (or 6 mono's to bi-amp) and two stereo amps for the surround channels.

This would run to a 7.1 setup of the Genesis 6 series plus a couple top shelf SVS subs.

http://www.genesisloudspeakers.com/prd_6series.html

Probably have a ~50" RPTV (CRT/LCD/SXRD/DLP) etc for daytime and non-critical viewing and a drop down screen for my Sony "Ruby" SXRD front projector


Denon 3910 DVD player
Benchmark Dac1
Media Server PC (That's a whole thread/post on it's own!)
Motorola 6412 HD Dual Tuner PVR
I'd have to investigate on a LP player

Add some of these seats.

http://www.elitehts.com/home.htm

[WannaDIY805]

My Dream Theater

http://www.jblsynthesis.com/products/system_overview.aspx?prod=SYN-HERCULES&Language=ENG&Country=US&Region=USA

[cinema bob]

Wilson Audio Alexandria speakers L and R, Wilson Audio Watch center channel and Watch surrounds with a Wilson XS sub.
Power would come from Mark Levinson, four No.33 monoblocks for the front channels and the xs sub, and two No. 431 stereo amps for the surrounds. The processing would be from Theta via the casablanca 3.
The dvd's and cd's would both be played back via the mark levinson media center. I would still have a VCR but it would be one of the JVC D-VHS units. I know next to nothing about turntables but would surely have one in this setup.
Video would be projected by the fabulous Sony Qualia oo6 onto a stewart screen. And I would watch in seating by salamander designs. the room itself would be professionally tweaked for acoustics.

[audioqueso]

My Dream Theater

http://www.jblsynthesis.com/products...=US&Region=USA

Yup! Same thing here... exactly the same thing. I'd want just the same setup IMAX uses.

Then I can spend my money concentrating on 2-channel audio.

[ht_addict]

Why dream when I already have what I have. To me its a dream come true :T :T

VIDEO
Panasonic 47" RPTV(ISF Calibrated)
Denon 2900
Motorola DCT-6412(HDef)

AUDIO
Denon 4806
Paradigm Studio(v3) 40
Paradigm Studio(v3) ADP470
Paraigm Studio CC570
Paradigm PW2100

OTHER
Monster HTPS7000
Monster AVS2000 :T :T

[KeithM]

Why dream when I already have what I have. To me its a dream come true :T :T

Because then there is no reason to upgrade

[Cowanrg]

yeah, i pretty much have my dream system right now... of course i still upgrade.

fronts: magnepan Tympani 1D's (no center, no NEED for a center)
rears: magnepan SMGc's
subwoofer(s): 2x Velodyne DD-18 (maggies dont go low, they need "help")

amps: 2x rotel B-1070 (one for each front speaker)
amps: 2x pass labs aleph3 (one for each rear speaker)

processor: rotel SP-1098
source: denon dvd-3910
power conditioning: 2x furman elite 15PF's (split left and right side of system)

tv: sony kv34hs510 (could be bigger, but tubes look great)

interconnects: audioquest jaguar used on EVERYTHING analog
video cables: audioquest YIQ-1 or YIQ-3
digital cables: audioquest VDM-5
sub cables: synergistic research resolution reference active

yummy. in a week ill be upgrading to bohlender graebener radia 520i's all the way around (fronts and rears). then its amp upgrade time. woohoo.