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Running a Yamaha P220(nothing fancy) with a Rega mini A2D
Bass sounds as it should, maybe a tad light.

I ran HT duties without a Center Channel for about a year, I doubt the V4 M80 would make me want to go back to that... don't know until you try I guess. The VP180 is a great speaker, possibly overkill though.

I agree the 180 is a great center channel, matches up perfectly (as it should) with the 80s.
What I hear I like. Although, my Theater isn’t very wide so most certainly I’m losing out compared to everyone with wider spaces. My mains and center are only v3 but I would rather have a center channel than not.
YMMV

Jeff

For Wow factor:

Option 1. Theater centric. My vote.
-Blackout blinds behind your slat wood blinds.

-Falsewall extended down from beam bulkhead to floor. Fabric stretched on it with acoustically transparent screen.

-Acoustic panels behind screen.

-Shrink screen to proper size.

Option 2. Music centric

-move sub to center of front wall.

-large QRD diffuser on front wall.

-acoustic panels on sidewalls near speakers

-retract screen when not in use

For both setups -learn to use Dirac. Focus on the room and integration. Lots of wow factor left on the table you have available.

I would not recommend buying or upgrading anything until you sort your room out. You already have great speakers and power on hand.

So we finished taking all of the walls down. We are back to concrete foundation and studs. We decided to gut the room and start anew getting all of the wires and insulation in behind the walls and ceilings. The speakers still sound good even with no walls up. Hopefully by spring time we will have it put back together and I am also running zone 2 speakers out to our patio to add exterior speakers for the hot tub and eventually the pool area. Has anyone heard Axiom's outdoor speakers? I was thinking of putting 4 speakers across the patio area.

Canes, you may as well do your room right the second time. Make the room anti-standing wave by building non-parallel surfaces. That means a tilted ceiling, and trapezoidal walls. 14 foot thick insulation on the rear wall with no drywall will do wonders for bass. As for wiring, you want to come up with a system that allows for future flexibility. You may want to do 16-channel down the road.

Commission Ian to build you on-wall and on-ceiling active LFRs for all channels.

An equipment room would be ideal because you damned well know you'll be running ADA-1500 amps for every channel in the future.

Make us proud, man. Trevor will guide you.

Edit: I heard the Algonquins and they are very good for outside. Maybe the v4 are even better if they have a "real" cross-over like the M3v4. It would be awesome to have an 800 out there too. Ian can build you a weather-resistant 800 with a splash shield over the amp plate and resin epoxy over the cabinet. A one-of-a-kind! Make sure Ian signs that one.

I need outdoor speakers to play loud enough that people on the blue ridge parkway will be able to hear, 1 mile away across a valley. I tried to talk to my wife about building the room with a tilted ceiling but she wouldn't go for it. I told her it would be more like a movie theater. She said maybe if we ever enclose the theater room. Going to build false walls with multi layers of insulation and dual layers of drywall with green goo on the false wall. It's going to be a project since we will be doing the work ourselves. I want to block off one of the offsets and make it a mechanical room if she doesn't want to block off that area i'll have everything on racks and tucked away.

And yes I will be adding ADA-1500s at some point too.

I don't know how much ceiling or wall tilt you need but likely not enough to be noticeable.

Yeah, I want to hear your outdoor speakers all the way up here! So you need weatherized active LFR1500s then.

It's great your lady will be involved in this and doing labor to boot.

She will be making sure the room looks nice and neat. Her only complaint is that the 100s sit too far out from the wall. I told her once the walls are up the room will tell us how far away from the wall they need to be. She just looked at me like I was crazy.

Canes, you have become the room whisperer. To appear more mysterious, look at her out the corner of your eye while stroking your chin.