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Thread: Help setting up home theater with Panasonic CT-32HX42 and Aiwa NSX-V70 |
    
New member Username: Jbelliott
Post Number: 1
Registered: Jun-06
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| Posted on Wednesday, June 21, 2006 - 03:43 pm: |
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Hi,
I've just moved into a new house with a big family room in which I'd like to set up a decent home theater with the equipment I already own (i.e. I just moved into a new house and don't have the cash to buy a good home theater system right now and I'm making do with what I've got).
For a television, I've got a Panasonic CT-32HX42 which is a decent HDTV ready 32" flat screen (http://reviews.cnet.com/Panasonic_CT_32HX42/4505-6481_7-20578356.html)
and for the audio I've got an Aiwa NSX-V70 (http://www.audioreview.com/cat/other/mini-systems/aiwa/PRD_117585_2749crx.aspx).
Neither system is great, but the Panasonic has a good picture and the Aiwa has decent sound with DSP surround sound, BBE and so on.
I've read the simple introdcutions to setting up a home theater (e.g. this one: http://www.audioholics.com/techtips/setup/loudspeakers/hometheaterspeakerlayout. php) but have a few questions about applying those ideas to the equipment I have.
Specifically, the Aiwa I have has no "center channel speaker" and no subwoofer. It does have to smaller surround sound speakers and two larger front speakers.
In my last house I had all four speakers on shelves about five feet high with the front speakers located above the corners of the television and the surround sound speakers a few feet further out from them, all along the same wall across from my couch. I had all kinds of problems hearing the dialog whenever I tried to use surround sound from the DVD player or from the television.
My question is mostly about the lack of the "center channel speaker." If I set things up in the standard configuration, front speakers above the television and surround sound speakers slightly behind the couch, then will this give a decent audio experience? Will I be able to have all the nice surround sound effects and hear the dialog?
In the past I've been disabling the speakers on the television, but I could enable those. If I did that, would they act as the "center channel speaker?"
Additionally, is there a best configuration of sound settings on the DVD player, stereo system and television? Each seems to have a few different settings; e.g. surround on/off, BBE on/off etc.
Any advice is welcome. Thanks.
Jim |
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Silver Member Username: Mccambley
BREEZY POINT,
NY
USA
Post Number: 227
Registered: Jun-05
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| Posted on Wednesday, June 21, 2006 - 11:06 pm: |
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Reading the audio review link on the Aiwa it sounds like you might be better off just hooking the DVD to the TV and junking that stereo. |
New member Username: Jbelliott
Post Number: 2
Registered: Jun-06
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| Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 - 11:53 am: |
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I doudt junking the stereo is the best idea. I actually got the model of the Aiwa wrong, but it's still not a great system, though it does the job.
The television sound isn't all that hot, the gradation of the sound level is too course, for instance 8 (the display level of the sound) is too low and 9 is too high. The stereo allows for finer sound level control. |
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