Two speaker stereo is all I’ve ever had. Good enough for me. On Sat, Jun 10, 2023, at 13:55, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: > I have an older 5.1 hooked into my LR TV. It drives a pair of large > Advents I bought in 1974 or so (they were reconed once), some kind of > center speaker, and a pair of rear Boston Acoustic wall-mounted forward > and rear firing back channel speakers. I had a 12” sub at one point and > it was rattling the house so I deleted that. The large Advents handle > that job well. > > I put a 5.1 system in the kitchen when I built it. Put in a 70” TV, an > Onkyo 7.1 receiver that also handles video, and a 5.1 package speaker > system. I didn’t add the side channel speakers. It will shake the > foundation. I had a 12” sub in there too but it was like banging a big > bass drum in the large space. > > It’s all kinda fun. Teenage dreams achieved! > > --FT > Sent from iFōn > >> On Jun 10, 2023, at 1:21 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> I have been using a 10 or more year old Sony receiver that does not support >> 4K. I have had a 4K tv for a while but since receiver did not support that I >> was really online seeing 1080. I bought a cheap Onkyo receiver that was >> about $500 from Amazon and have had it a while but have not hooked it up. It >> has a ton of HDMI inputs and seemed to have a lot of features. I also >> noticed for some reason suddenly the last couple of days I have zero sound >> out of the front main channels. Perhaps the receiver failed, I don’t know. >> Or wires loose to the speaker. Anyway, it was raining today so I just hooked >> it up and boy what difference both in sound and picture. I so not sure if my >> old receiver was just way out dated as far as the surround sound goes, or if >> it was failing but the sound is a huge difference. I am just running the 25 >> year old speakers that came with my old rack system that was a first gen >> surround sound receiver. The wife also had one just like mine so we ended up >> with 2 sets of speakers so I use the 2nd set of back speakers to achieve >> 7.1. Works fine for me but perhaps one day I will upgrade the speakers. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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