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Re: Pi Speakers in Home Theater/Stereo Listening Room Upgrade
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My suggestion would be to use three Pi or four Pi mains with flanking subs. Do some searches here to see what that setup entails. It's a pretty popular configuration.
Also, while we do offer complete loudspeakers, it's sometimes worthwhile to find a cabinet shop in your area to build your speakers for you. We offer flat-pack kits to make it easier and faster for your local shop.
]]>Wayne Parham2024-03-28T14:30:50-00:00Re: Pi Speakers in Home Theater/Stereo Listening Room Upgrade
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Welcome to the the rabbit hole. ]]>compaddict2024-03-28T12:57:23-00:00Re: My rant for today
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gofar992024-03-28T02:23:26-00:00Pi Speakers in Home Theater/Stereo Listening Room Upgrade
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I am in the beginning stages of the audiophile illness. I am looking for some input from you all here on the forum!
I have a home theater set up in a dedicated room that is 20x18ish. Currently, my system is a Klipsch Reference Premier based 7.2.4 Dolby Atmos setup. The front L/R speakers are RP8000F, center is RP-504C, surrounds RP-600M, in-ceiling CDT-5800-C II, and subs are SPL-120. I'm using a Denon 4700h AVR paired with an Emotiva BasX power amp powering the front 3 speakers. I have everything placed within dolby's specifications for a 7.2.4 system, and have the room pretty well treated with acoustic panels and bass traps. I have been happy with the set up until I really started trying to enjoy stereo music playback. After getting a little more education and visiting my nearest Klipsch heritage dealer, I'm definitely getting the bug to upgrade! I know I'm leaving a ton on the table for music playback, and also a good bit of improvement for the HT deal as well.
I was originally thinking I would keep an eye out for a good deal on Fortes or Cornwalls for the front L/R speakers as a first step, with perhaps a Heresy or the Klipsch RC-34 III for the center channel. I've been browsing various forums and posts to get some ideas and came across a mention of Pi speakers which is what brought me here. I'm surprised that there seems to be such high performing speakers at a much cheaper cost than the Klispch heritage models.
Based on what I've described, looking for input on Pi models and configurations that would fill my near term goal of better stereo listening. As I noted, I really liked the sound of the Fortes and Cornwalls. I'm thinking I would upgrade the L/R fronts first, and the center channel as well so it matches up well for HT use. I have room to play with placement for the fronts, right now they are at about 20" from the front wall with a listening position about 12' from the front wall. I'm also open to subwoofer suggestions if you think I could greatly improve on 2.1 or 2.2 playback. Also curious to see if you think the Denon/BasX combo would remotely do them justice, or if I should consider upgrading the AVR or adding a separate amp setup sooner than later.
I know there is a lot to unpack here, but I'm a bit overwhelmed at the amount of info on the forum. I am not a DIYer btw, would be buying these ready to go.
Thanks for any guidance!
Aaron ]]>Aaron E2024-03-28T01:11:41-00:00Re: My rant for today
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I just love my Altair 8800.
]]>Wayne Parham2024-03-27T17:03:40-00:00Re: Audiophile Survey
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I'm sure there is probably some useful information in finding the "audiophile" demographic in the 2020s but I'm not sure what it is.
I know this: I have been interested in high quality sound since I was around 16 years old, in the late 1970s. I think probably my DIY leanings came from the fact that having that desire at a young age meant I needed to find ways to get high-quality sound on a budget. But the fact that it was even possible for me to obtain high-quality sound equipment at that age is my point.
If someone did a survey of audiophiles in, say 1975 to 1980, I think it would show many audiophiles were young. There may have been more young audiophiles back then than there were older audiophiles.
There was a time - prior to the 1950s or so - that hifi sound was exotic and esoteric. It was only for a dedicated breed, a lot like being a ham radio operator. You had to have financial resources and technical expertise to even get the gear. So even being an audiophile in generations back then was rare.
The decades of the 1960s and 1970s brought more offerings, so there was more to work with at a little bit lower cost. That made "audiophile quality" systems more attainable. But even then, the quality of high-fidelity equipment was significantly better than low-cost radios, tape decks and record-players. So there was a wide range of quality levels, with a large gap between hifi and low-cost systems. That tended to give a reason to want to obtain better systems: There were more obvious benefits in the better systems and they were more available to more people.
Mid-fi in the years prior to the 1970s or so was pretty much a table radio or portable record player with practically no-fi. So if you were a young adult prior to the 1970s, you had to either get a pretty good hi-fi system, or you were settling on sound that really pretty much sucked. There really wasn't a "mid-fi" system in the 1960s and before - you either had a fairly expensive and relatively exotic hifi system, or you had sound bandwidth that wasn't much greater than a telephone.
Not so by Y2K. One could purchase an inexpensive system that wasn't audiophile quality but it was definitely better than a table radio. You weren't limited to telephone-bandwidth sound, even with an inexpensive sound system. So I think that makes younger generations less likely to spend thousands on high-end hifi equipment.
So I am wondering if the age-bias has more to do with that kind of thing - the offerings available to older generations when they were young adults - than the mere fact of age itself. I mean, one might think that boomers are more likely to be audiophiles than younger generations. Could be their natural affluence, or maybe it more because good quality sound became more reachable by the 1970s than, say, the 1940s. And then by Y2K, digital media and other technologies made mid-fi much better sounding than mid-fi in earlier decades, so maybe that's part of it too.
]]>Wayne Parham2024-03-27T16:57:10-00:00Re: My rant for today
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I think it just gives them something to do. Busy(body) work.]]>Rusty2024-03-27T16:29:40-00:00Re: Audiophile Survey
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Rusty2024-03-27T16:20:45-00:00My rant for today
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