Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater HT for $10K

The bad news is, my company is relocating me and my family. The good news is, they pay all the realtor fees, closing costs, and also give me a 2% bonus for selling my own house without them having to take it over. I got extremely lucky and will pull much more money outta my house than I planned. What was originally gonna take me years to build...I should be able to do at once.

I've got a dedicated room (20X18X9) to fill up. Here's the preliminary plan:

Epic 80 - ~$2400
Denon 3805 - ~$850
Sony HS5 projector + 106' fixed screen - ~$3200
??? DVD player - ~$350
??? Seats for 6-8 - ~$2500
There's still up to $2k if I need it.

What else do I need? I'd be interested to hear ideas on how you'd use the $$$. This room will be used mainly for movies, football watching, and PS2...not much music.

Thanks.

Might I suggest you give a slight bump to your DVD player budget and go for a universal player like the Denon 2910 or 3910? If you're going to project onto that size screen, I would argue that you'd want to make sure that the source player is as good as possible. You can do well at $450, but at $600 you can start to do very well.

i would go seperates since you have the extra cash mostly just because you can. but also it would prob push those 80's easier.

If you've got the room in the finances to push in both directions I agree with both of these gentlemen.

Dont forget cables

http://www.magnan.com/
these will do, around $2000 to wire all the speakers...

If I had 10k to throw around, I wouldn't be buying Axiom speakers. I'd be ripping open a box of brand new Dynaudios right about now. You did mention, though, that you won't listen to much music, so I guess the speakers aren't as critical.

now a comment like that is just looking for a fight. ? can there be any other reason why you would post that?

keep in mind, the 10K is for an entire system, not just speakers.

bigjohn

I agree with BigJohn. What would spending the 10K on the speakers do for you? Such expensive speakers would sound incredibly quiet, not being connected to a single Amp, Receiver, DVD Player, etc. Furthermore, would spending an extra grand on speakers significantly improve the sound? Isn't that really why Axiom has such a good place in the market…that you have to spend more than just 1K more to get distinguishable difference in sound? I’d stick with the Axioms, but I would exchange the E350 for the E500 or even the E600, since you will be watching so many shows and your wallet has the headroom. Why not reach down and get those frequencies in the teens, since you can.

That’s great news rook. Looks like a plan. Keep in mind that you want to be pleased when this is done, not "almost pleased". Let me add a few thoughts for you to consider:

1) The Epic 80 will cost $2600+, not $2400. You might consider a package of M60/VP150/QS8 ($1695) and a sub upgrade to an SVS PB12-ISD/2 ($899). For a bit more, you could also look at the EP500 to match everything. The M60s will be plenty of speaker and the sub will be fantastic. Total of $2595 with SVS or $2787 with EP500. You can add back the M80s for around $300. See this recent thread on sub comparisons

2) Denon 3805 is a good receiver choice. ($850)

3) I don’t know much about projectors, but I hear a lot of good things about the BenQ 8700. It looks like $3800 - $3900 w/o screen. Might be worth a look.

4) Joe makes an excellent point about the DVD Player 2910 would be very good ($600-$700), the 3910 would be better ($1000). Don't skimp here. BTW - the 3805 and 3910 can be connected via Denon Link - simplifies the hook ups.

5) I’d also try and find a little more money from the seats to fund the equipment

6) Cables/interconnects can had from Blue Jeans Cables . Very good quality and reasonable prices. They will also cut to specific lengths for you. Use the 1694A cable with Canare connectors. There’s no reason to spend a pile of money on these things.

7) Speaker wire has been beaten to death here. Home Depot 14 ga from their bulk wire/cut from a roll dept. is excellent and around $0.25/foot.

8) With all of this equipment, you might consider a universal remote. You can search on the forum for the Home Theater Master MX-700. Wonderful piece of equipment. Very powerful (macros) and is a one button solution for turning things on / switching to something else with multiple pieces of equipment involved.

Ray, all that rambling was just a way for you to diguise a mx700 push nice work.;)