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I am currently using a Panamax MD2-RCA for surge protection for my Descent i, which is on its own 20amp dedicated circuit. I don't believe that this surge protector is high current, so is it potentially starving the Descent during bass-heavy moments in music/movies? Here are the stats: AC...

For your center channel you could use http://emotiva.com/upa1.shtm, 200w @8ohm, 350w @4ohm for $300, which you can probably fit into your budget. Might be slightly lower SQ than the amp for you FL/FR but will provide way more headroom than your 4311 and be much easier to match the SPLs and gain...

This issue has only seemed to start happening lately, and it only is happening in a few select instances. When playing most newer video games on PS3 and Xbox360 (Assasin's Creed and Skyrim most recently), as well as certain Bluray discs, the center channel volume is way, way lower than my other...

Your problem is going to be the Vantages being too close together, not their alignment with the Frescos. If your 120" screen is like most of the ones in systems I've designed it's about 9' wide, so if you move each of your fronts in 2' that means only 5' of separation between speakers. Unless...

Yeah i've been running my T-2 for about 3.5 years now, first with my Vienna Acoustics speakers and now with my Theos. It's a great sub and the Sub-Bass connection (their proprietary connection system for speaker inputs) blends really well with my Theos for music. The only negative is that the...

A REL T-2 might be in your price range as well, and they're known for being very fast and musical subs. I'm still using my T-2 in my system until my Descent gets here.

From what I've read the Depth i (or two) is a little better suited for a music-focused system and the Descent i (or two) is a little better suited for home theater-focused system. Obviously this is also dependent on room size, which speakers you're using, etc, but that seems to be the general...

If you got an XPA-2 you would use it for your front left/front right, and use 2 channels off the XPA-5 2 run the Frescos. The XPA-2 is higher power and higher sound quality than the XPA-5. I have an XPA-2 running my Theos and XPA-5 running my center and surrounds. A UPA-2 would be perfect for...

Keeping speakers set to small will keep more bass going to the sub, which will reduce the power demands of the speakers a little bit but restrict the range of your speakers. Lower volumes will also help, but the Yamaha is a smart receiver and should go into protection mode before it comes close...

That receiver doing all that work is going to be a major, major weak point in your system. Like Hocky said, your next upgrade should be a seperate amp for at least the front 3 channels. 7.1 is cool, but not a big difference from 5.1, 9.1 is completely matrixed (aka guessed) by the reciever so...

I agree, if the subwoofer pre-out is providing the subwoofer signal when you plug it into the left channel input, but the same cable plugged into the same pre-out provides no sound when plugged into the LFE input, it sounds like the LFE input is dead. I don't know how the sub would react to...

Your speakers are technically within ML's recommended placement with the distance apart they are now, you just don't have any room to play with placement to see if they could potentially sound better closer together. ML recommends a 1:1 to 1:2 (if I remember right) ratio for distance between...

If that Denon is anything like my Marantz AV-7005 (which I think it might be) the sub won't play when you're listening to a stereo source unless you run RCA's out of the pre-outs for Front Left and Front Right on your receiver to the inputs on the Depth, and switch to what I think the Denon...

I have SBW AQ Gibraltars connecting my Emotiva XPA-2 to my Theos, and I've bee extremely happy with them. I hear a bit more detail an bass extension using SBW Gibraltars, I was using AQ Type4 single wire cables with jumpers for my A/B comparison. I'll admit that Gibraltars and Type4s arent an...

Look it up online and have him price match amazon or something similar. They wont price match shady online places but they will match most big online retailers and almost all brick and mortar stores. I use the 5400 but that's cuz I get them at cost, if I were paying retail if probably get the...

The marantz amp is much lower power, I'd go with the XPA-5 which is on sale for $899 I think, or if you want to go all out get an XPA-2 for the FL/FR and and XPA-3 for the CC/RR/RL which is basically what I use. I wonder why the guy didn't recommend seperates, there are very, very few receivers...

It's a great combination of equipment. I was kind of regretting not going for the Ethos or Montis, but once I went from the XPA-5 powering my Theos to the XPA-2, it really helped bring out more low end and between that and my Descent, I don't think the Ethos would be that huge of an improvement...

Well, by low ceilings I mean 8'-9' as opposed to the immensely popular 12'-20' vaulted ceilings that are all the rage in my area that make it sounds like you're in a cave, and by square I meant having 4 real, full walls and not half-walls or conjoined living room/kitchens/dining rooms like most...

I wish they had more basements out here in California, seems like a perfect space for a nice home theater, man cave, and/or listening room. Low ceilings, square, and the wife wants nothing to do with it.

As I sit and bask in the glory of my newly constructed system, I can't help but notice the HUGE difference between what I had planned on buying, and what I ended up buying. Maybe I just have OCD, but I was literally losing sleep pondering "what am I missing by being too cheap to upgrade to...