jeberhart
05-11-2002, 01:05 AM
OK, guys, this may be a tough one, but here goes.
I jus ordered a new pair of Polk FXI30 surround speakers to use as my surrounds when playing DVDs. I have the option on my Denon 3801 to use two different sets of surrounds, one for music, one for movies. I'm replacing the movie surrounds, which have been just a pair of R40s, with these because the 40s are too direct. The FXI30s will be set in dipole mode, and I'm hoping to get more diffusion when playing DVDs.
My rather nice dilemma, I guess: What to do with the R40s? My options are to use them as speakers in another room, or to keep them somehow in the main AV room. Complication, though: I'm running my 13-year-old Polk Monitor 10Bs as main front L/R speakers, out of a beefy old ADCOM 555, with the ADCOM preamped out from the Denon. So I've already got a lot of muscle on the front end of this system. One thing I could do is put the R40s into the Denon speaker outs, and just put them on the front end along with the 10Bs, but is that going to be severe overkill? I don't want to bother with trying it if it's just going to be too much.
Here's the rest of the setup: Polk 450 sub, a Polk 245 for the center channel, and on the back, a set of small Polks for rear surround -- I think they're just those little Polk 15s, anyway, they hang on the wall. My music surrounds are a 23-year-old set of Advent loudspeakers, believe it or not, that I refitted myself with new drivers and capacitors; they sound great.
So that's the question -- try to keep the R40s in the main listening room, or not? I could add them to the room upstairs, which now has just a crappy little pair of Sonys that run off my 2nd outboard amp, which goes into the "multi zone" feature on the Denon, so that someone downstairs can listen to one source while someone upstairs listens to another.
Anyway, I'd appreciate any opinions -- except maybe any wisecracks about me having too many speakers and time on my hands. ;) From the age of some of the gear I have, I guess it's obvious I never like to toss anything out.
I jus ordered a new pair of Polk FXI30 surround speakers to use as my surrounds when playing DVDs. I have the option on my Denon 3801 to use two different sets of surrounds, one for music, one for movies. I'm replacing the movie surrounds, which have been just a pair of R40s, with these because the 40s are too direct. The FXI30s will be set in dipole mode, and I'm hoping to get more diffusion when playing DVDs.
My rather nice dilemma, I guess: What to do with the R40s? My options are to use them as speakers in another room, or to keep them somehow in the main AV room. Complication, though: I'm running my 13-year-old Polk Monitor 10Bs as main front L/R speakers, out of a beefy old ADCOM 555, with the ADCOM preamped out from the Denon. So I've already got a lot of muscle on the front end of this system. One thing I could do is put the R40s into the Denon speaker outs, and just put them on the front end along with the 10Bs, but is that going to be severe overkill? I don't want to bother with trying it if it's just going to be too much.
Here's the rest of the setup: Polk 450 sub, a Polk 245 for the center channel, and on the back, a set of small Polks for rear surround -- I think they're just those little Polk 15s, anyway, they hang on the wall. My music surrounds are a 23-year-old set of Advent loudspeakers, believe it or not, that I refitted myself with new drivers and capacitors; they sound great.
So that's the question -- try to keep the R40s in the main listening room, or not? I could add them to the room upstairs, which now has just a crappy little pair of Sonys that run off my 2nd outboard amp, which goes into the "multi zone" feature on the Denon, so that someone downstairs can listen to one source while someone upstairs listens to another.
Anyway, I'd appreciate any opinions -- except maybe any wisecracks about me having too many speakers and time on my hands. ;) From the age of some of the gear I have, I guess it's obvious I never like to toss anything out.