hey guru's, when we moved i just yanked all the wires out from the system and i think i have all hooked up. It is an onkyo reciever with a powered sub (pardign) and front epi's with small bookshelf type sony speakers for the rear. also have a center channel. when playing a dvd like top gun the sound is awesome....when watching tv the sound isn't as strong thru the rear speakers. is there anything you can think of to look for? i have set all the distances on the reciever and when testing the individual speakers they all come thru very strong. I have the tv speakers off, and wasn't sure if the surround sound option on the tv actually matters at this point...also do i use fixed or variable in the feild on the tv. i use an iptical cable for the dvd and s cable.....the others are all just regular cables. i have 3 inputs etc....thanks....(the only other thing different is i now use a different cable company with digital box). thanks.....

jim

 

Most TV shows are not broadcast in surround sound.
If you get audio from the rears from a non surround source, then you either have a short or your reciver is processing by frequencies not signal.

 

You need a Bose Lifestyle 48 system.

http://www.bose.com/controller?event...ls48/index.jsp

It's only 4 grand... but I am positive that it will make you have a "real" home theater. Oh, and I personally like the Black... the white just looks too tacky.

 

EPIs? Cool. I used to work there. No highs, no lows, it must be Bose.

 

Do you have EPI's?

Nah, just a runny nose.

 

I almost said the same thing.......


Bose does make great speaker boxes with alot of engineering put in to them.
Take the speakers out, put in atleast a decent speaker, and hook it up to a cheap quality processor and you'd have a good sound, better than stock bose anyway. But you still paid 4 times more than a great system and you only got a good sound.

 

i have the T/E 70 series (time energy). the sound is really awesome. had the woofers rebuilt by a local guy that gets sent rebuilds from all over the country (world?). anyway, the clarity of sound with them and the paradign sub works well. for some reason i thought i would have more shows in surround sound also? just watched spidey 3 and transformers and the sound rocked!

 

Did Human speakers do your rebuild? He is the best at EPI rebuilds. The T/E series were awesome. Too bad Harman killed off the brand. It was a fun company to work at.

Tell me what the initials are on the inspection stickers on the back. Just curious who did final on them.

 

387683 are on a yellow sticker....i cannot make out any initials

 

Yellow sticker is serial number. Inspection sticker is usually top right or top left corner. It may have fallen off.

 

As PSS-Mag said, almost everything broadcast is only 2-channel. What model Onkyo recevier do you have? Some brands have some decent 5-channel processing, so you may want you try out the surround modes (only for the TV, keep DVD's 5.1). My Denon has two surrpond modes that work pretty well for 2-channel audio, including CD's. Dolby Prologic II works pretty well, from what I hear. That came out one year after I got my recevier, so I don't have experience with it.

If you have an HDTV tuner, much of that programming is 5.1 and some HBO/Cinimax/Shotime movies are as well, but you need a receiver capable of outputting digital audio too.

 

i don't have the model handy right now, however, it does have alot of different sound feilds to play with. neo 6 and pro logicII and a bunch of others...got it last year as a leftover. only have it hooked as a 5.1 but can be a 7.1 if i deside. the epi's tag is there for the inspection but no initials can be made out....they have been around for 25 years or so...can't believe the sound. really glad as a young man i was smart enough to get something so good back then that withstands the test of time!