So this weekend i was going to sort out the network aspects of the system but there were a few other things that i was unhappy with - if you look at some of the pics up above the TV and the speakers are sitting a bit highish and also the rear surround speakers are too far apart to actually give a satisfactory surround effect - so i decided to rectify these issues instead.
i had to buy around R300 worth of double sided tape to actually get the trunking back on at the corrected places - and basically i am far happier with how the system looks now - the speaker wall mounts are lower and dont need as much of a tilt - so i actually put in the bigger Ikon 2's in the front and got the Ikon1's at the rear as they should be
the original TV and front speaker height
i dropped the TV by 250mm and now you cannot see much of a gap between the TV and the centre speaker - also i tried the centre speaker forward right to the edge of the rack and back like this - and it actually sounds better at the back like this
then i also decided to try it out with one sub only - and it doesnt make much difference in having one sub a wee bit louder or having the two subs both a wee bit softer since this room is actually just only around 10 square metres ie 3m x 3.3m so its just more-or-less a cubicle .... if i dont use the sub i have a buddy who is building up a system and has been begging me to sell him one of these - so maybe i might let it go if i dont actually use it
the speaker wall mounts have been dropped by 400mm and hence as i have mentioned they dont need to be tilted downward as much - plus i have placed the bigger speakers at the front - these sound a fair bit better in stereo mode .... and after taking this pic i noticed that i did not clean the lowest shelf of the sawdust left over from all the re-drilling i had to do on the wall
the rear surrounds were absolutely too far apart and were actually as wide as the rear speakers and this is normally incorrect - so i basically got them closer together as well by moving them around 400mm toward each other - so the gap between them is around 1.2 metres only now
and while i had the trunking opened to shorten the length i ran some of the smaller bits of network cable that have to plugged in for the network aspects - just got to run the longer cables into the other rooms and then i will connect up the router and switch
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