I've been doing a little reading as I'm in the process of finishing off my basement, so i need to run the wires.
My receiver is a Harmon Karman AVR 247 (?). I also have a powered 12" cerwin Vega sub in an enclosure. The sub faces down, front is open to the ground. The side has two, 3" ports. I also have a pair of Bose bookshelf speakers. I believe they are a 5-6" woofer and about a 2" tweeter. I also have 3-5 of the small bose single cube speakers. When i finish this i plan to at the very least buy a nicer Center channel speaker.... in the past i just used one of the cubes.
My questions, which I'm hoping someone here can help with are. ...
1) is this a decent setup? i want everything to sound balanced, but i also don't want to break the bank....at this point I'm not looking to spend lots of money and from what i recall it sounded decent before. Like i said i plan on upgrading at least the center channel as i believe my avr had a left and right center.
i guess I'm wondering are the cubes good for the side and rear channels or should i but something else? Will they be overpowered by the bookshelves and the 12"sub?
3) what about the bookshelves. ... is that a good choice for the fronts?
4) regarding the sub. ..i was thinking of trying to incorporate it into a built-in window seat with bookshelves on either side. I've read that may not be a great idea. The plan was to put a toe kick of sorts in the seat and leave it open on the part where the sub sits. The part i haven't figured out was the ports. Not sure if I'd drill holes and just have them face out or try to reconfigure so they'd come out elsewhere. I realize ports are tuned to length, so I'm working on that. To help reduce vibration inside the seat and to cabinets, i thought about placing some 1/2-1" rigid foam between the sub cabinet and the seats framework/Cabinet. Will the foam absorb too much sound?
4) what about height. Some things i read say everything at ear height. Some things say parts are OK in the ceiling.
I will add, to keep the wife happy and to keep things clean i thought about hiding as much as i can, hence the sub in the window seat. install stuff in the ceiling is easy at this point and could easily be concealed to some degree. Placing is walls is a bit tougher.
Any direction on this is helpful.
My receiver is a Harmon Karman AVR 247 (?). I also have a powered 12" cerwin Vega sub in an enclosure. The sub faces down, front is open to the ground. The side has two, 3" ports. I also have a pair of Bose bookshelf speakers. I believe they are a 5-6" woofer and about a 2" tweeter. I also have 3-5 of the small bose single cube speakers. When i finish this i plan to at the very least buy a nicer Center channel speaker.... in the past i just used one of the cubes.
My questions, which I'm hoping someone here can help with are. ...
1) is this a decent setup? i want everything to sound balanced, but i also don't want to break the bank....at this point I'm not looking to spend lots of money and from what i recall it sounded decent before. Like i said i plan on upgrading at least the center channel as i believe my avr had a left and right center.
i guess I'm wondering are the cubes good for the side and rear channels or should i but something else? Will they be overpowered by the bookshelves and the 12"sub?
3) what about the bookshelves. ... is that a good choice for the fronts?
4) regarding the sub. ..i was thinking of trying to incorporate it into a built-in window seat with bookshelves on either side. I've read that may not be a great idea. The plan was to put a toe kick of sorts in the seat and leave it open on the part where the sub sits. The part i haven't figured out was the ports. Not sure if I'd drill holes and just have them face out or try to reconfigure so they'd come out elsewhere. I realize ports are tuned to length, so I'm working on that. To help reduce vibration inside the seat and to cabinets, i thought about placing some 1/2-1" rigid foam between the sub cabinet and the seats framework/Cabinet. Will the foam absorb too much sound?
4) what about height. Some things i read say everything at ear height. Some things say parts are OK in the ceiling.
I will add, to keep the wife happy and to keep things clean i thought about hiding as much as i can, hence the sub in the window seat. install stuff in the ceiling is easy at this point and could easily be concealed to some degree. Placing is walls is a bit tougher.
Any direction on this is helpful.