Thread: My new home entertainment system is under construction!

When it is completed, I will post a You Tube video showcasing the whole works.

Initial testing and impressions.

The new Marantz networking audio receiver coupled with the new Klipsch 10" sub is DYN-O-MITE! You should hear the pipe organ pedal point on Bach's Toccata and Fugue in F Major roar like a diesel locomotive now! This is still an MP3 file coming off my older Motorola Android Version 9 Moto E6 mobile telephone via a Bluetooth pairing. I flipped the phase switch a few times and could not hear any difference in loudness. One position seems to make organ bass sound more harmonious than the opposite, so I left the switch there.

This unit features a remote too. Bluetooth. This receiver has Wi-Fi connectivity. There is sound mode with stereo, direct and pure direct which I don't know much about.

I put on the 1968 DVD movie, Bullitt with Steve McQueen to test the sound system with the ultimate car chase ever. McQueen in his Ford Mustang fastback is chasing the two bad guys in the black Dodge Charger. You can hear the Stang's motor drone like rolling thunder through that big, heavy Klipsch on the vibration-isolation stand. It's like having your ear right next to a diesel locomotive. You can feel the damned thing rattle your brain like a mild concussion. Harley-Davidson big-twins through this. Excellent! Strauss's theme to 1022: A Space Odyssey? Awesome.

Classical music, pipe organs and 1960's hard rock seem to sound best with the equalizer on the phone app set to Bass and Treble mode. This is reminiscent of the classical home stereo knobs from the 1960's and 1970's. 1970's/1980's pop, rock and also jazz music of any era sounds crisper through the Rock setting on the eek. Do any people here have an equalizer shelf component? I don't think any new audio-/stereo receivers have built-in equalizers. My 1986 Panasonic double-cassette boombox with detachable stereo speakers had one with sliding levers. If I recall, the Technics receiver I bought new back in 1999 for a paltry 100 bucks might have had a graphic eq if memory serves me correctly.


I am now setting up the big heavy A/V cart I bought for my living room. I have to make a "sidecar" out of plywood to attach to the side of it for the sub to ride on with floor rollers. I have to make custom wooden bumper stops to be screwed onto the back of the component shelves and butting against the back panels of components, so components are easily positioned perfectly centered side to side and set back a precise distance from the front edges of the shelves. The front edges of all the shelf components are to be parallel with the front edges of the cabinet's shelves. The TV cabinet is on casters for easily moving for floor cleaning and back-panel cable management around the system. I don't like components to be shelved in a sloppy fashion.

Furthermore, I plan to make back custom-fit panels out of cardboard box material for the new entertainment rack and spray paint them flat black. This is to hide cables as viewing the cabinet unit from the front and to shut out light coming in from the rear. They will have small centered square openings to allow cables to pass through.

The optical digital audio cable works wonders. Movie sound is super clear. My DVD player also plays Blue Ray discs and even music CD's.

For movies, should sound mode be on pure direct? I believe stereo is best for music listening. I can shut the pair of Dayton Audio 6-ohm main floor-standing speakers off using the A/B switch so only the sub can be heard and felt.

Oh yes, I have a computer that will sit inside the new AV cabinet on the bottom. It is a smaller mini-ATX form-factor tower that has enough headroom to fit under the shelf above. This new rolling entertainment cabinet is 37" tall from the floor. The Samsung mart Tv will sit right on top. It also has key-lockable double tempered-glass doors. Doors are nice to keep dust out of your gear. This is an older Microsoft Windows 7 PC that has been repurposed for set-top use. This computer I built myself and is called the J.D. Barrow Television Computer and even has a custom front-panel case badge right in front saying this.

My sharp digital LED alarm clock will sit right on top of the computer tower inside the cabinet.

Just curious: why do you have three "copies" of the same post/topic as "separate posts" in this forum?

Cheers.

Pardon, Big Mean Cat, but this thread is original. I just got my new Marantz equipment yesterday and I'm sharing here how it sounds for the very first time ever. I don't know anything about "three copies". If you are not interested in my threads, then please butt out.

Originally Posted by JDBarrow

Pardon, Big Mean Cat, but this thread is original. I just got my new Marantz equipment yesterday and I'm sharing here how it sounds for the very first time ever. I don't know anything about "three copies". If you are not interested in my threads, then please butt out.

Perhaps the use of "copies" was not the most accurate descriptor, and I should have more clear. You posted the same exact post, three separate times, each as a new, "individual post". Here's a screen grab of what I was referring to in the in General Audio discussion forum, depicting three of the exact same post:



My comment wasn't about "originality"; just curious why the same exact post was posted three separate times. Cheers and have a nice evening.

Originally Posted by JDBarrow

...I don't know anything about "three copies". If you are not interested in my threads, then please butt out.

And I would have asked the same question, so I guess I should butt out also.

Originally Posted by brodricj

And I would have asked the same question, so I guess I should butt out also.

Yep, I guess if one asks a reasonable question, or posts a statement of fact, like, you know: f=ma or pV=nRT, then they need to butt out. Darn, that pesky Ideal Gas Law...

Good thing we're not discussing the Schrödinger equation, 'cause we know where that leads with respect to cats! 😹

Don't wind me up about the Schrödinger equation - I majored in Quantum Mechanics and Nuclear Physics at university.

Originally Posted by brodricj

Don't wind me up about the Schrödinger equation - I majored in Quantum Mechanics and Nuclear Physics at university.

Ha ha! Very cool! I guess we don’t need to discuss the Einstein-Podolski-Rosen conjecture then, either!

Cheers, mate! 👍

Originally Posted by Puma Cat

Perhaps the use of "copies" was not the most accurate descriptor, and I should have more clear. You posted the same exact post, three separate times, each as a new, "individual post". Here's a screen grab of what I was referring to in the in General Audio discussion forum, depicting three of the exact same post:



My comment wasn't about "originality"; just curious why the same exact post was posted three separate times. Cheers and have a nice evening.

Well, Mr. Cat, perhaps this was a computer error. Like double posts, this is a triple post unintended by human posters. You might ask the Web master here. It could also have been attributed to hitting the post or save button repeatedly by me because the thread creation page was slow to respond. We have a slow-loading server here at times.

Anyway, this forum is about TV and stereo, not IT geek stuff as Web browsers and HTML.