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57's Home Theatre

Thought you might be interested in seeing my home theatre setup. It’s probably a bit different from what you usually see because I have my components beside my chair. Three video connections (component, S-Video and composite video) run from the receiver to the TV. Now that I have the SA8300HD, the component video connection is utilized 99% of the time.

All the components are connected to the receiver via the various appropriate connections. I built the "rack" for the components myself. As you can see, the components are in the middle, vinyl and turntable underneath, CDs and some VHS on the left side, DVDs and some cassettes on the right side. There is plenty of space around the two "heat generating" pieces – the receiver and the STB. Some lesser-used VHS and cassettes are stored in the room adjacent to the home theatre.

The room is in our developed basement and can be made quite dark, even during the day or on summer evenings.

The room is about 16’ x 20’ x 8’ high, with the TV along the 16’ wall. We sit about 10-12’ from the TV (seats are easily movable, if desired, but usually stay in the same spot). "The boss" sits in the large dark green chair, which is a little amusing, since she is quite a small person.

The equipment consists of:

Hitachi 61UWX10B HDTV
Martin Logan Scenario Main Speakers
Martin Logan Cinema Centre Speaker
Clements Subwoofer
Polk PSW505 Subwoofer (placed where the jar was in this older photo)
Yamaha NS690 Speakers used for surrounds
Yamaha centre rear speaker
SA8300HD & eHDD (500 GB)
Yamaha RX-V1 Receiver
Toshiba SD2109 DVD Player (don't watch many DVDs)
Kenwood LVD710 Laser Disk Player
JVC S7500U S-VHS VCR (Now that I have the SA8300HD, this isn't getting much use)
Yamaha KX670 Cassette Deck
Dual 714Q Turntable
Grado SR-125 Headphones

Photos of my setup in the links below:

The TV’s picture is a little "washed out" because the TV image is overexposed. Since the room is quite dark, the exposure time was 1/2 second. Normally a picture of a TV looks best at about 1/15 to 1/30 second.

To the younger people just starting out, it took us 40 years of saving, purchasing and upgrading to get to this point, so take your time - getting there is a big part of the fun.

Upstairs we now have a Sony KDL40W3000, with SA8300HD & eHDD (250 GB).