RE: [OT] Selling Audiotron to get Surround Amp - any suggestions?

["Marcus Warrington" <marcusw@xxxxxxx>]

Nik,

Just to keep you informed..

I went back to RicherSounds again last night and swapped the speakers
again!
I've now gone full circle and swapped them for the original set that
I bought, the Eltax Liberty 5 set. I wasn't happy with the lack of midrange
on the sub/sat package and the Mirage pack left me with the feeling that
I'd spent more and got less (i.e. the rears were not bipolar).

In the 2 months I've been swapping the speakers etc RS have reduced the
price of the Liberty package from £250 to £150.. so I've ended up
getting the Liberty pack (2 floor standers/Centre/BiPolar rears) +
Eltax atomic 10 (175w) subwoofer (£60) and another Eltax centre speaker
"Symphony" (£80) to be used as a centre rear i.e. 6.1

At the end of the day not a very unobtrusive system but one that I feel
happy with in terms of sound. SWMBO isn't going to be happy.. especially
since she asked me to turn OFF the Surround Sound the other night because
"she kept hearing noises behind her" !

Marcus



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus Warrington [mailto:marcusw@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 5:19 PM
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ADVERT][OT] Selling Audiotron to get Surround Amp - any
> suggestions?
>
>
> Nik,
>
> I wouldn't think BiPolars are the choice if you want
> "unobtrusive" speakers
> Since they have two sets of cones firing at 45 degrees to each other,
> they tend to be a bit larger than "normal" rears.
>
> They are also designed to be wall mounted directly to the SIDE of the
> listener, not on the rear wall behind them.
>
> Marcus
>
>  Keep me posted.
>  I'm not happy with mine: how they sound and how they look.
>  After a lot of thinking, I'll probably end up not with
> single system,
>  but with speakers bougt separately.
>  I plan to deal with rears first, for a quite a while. I
> want them to be
>  as unobtrusive as possible (white or silver). I plan to
> mount them on
>  the wall (current ones are on the stands). That's why I'm
> considering
>  bipolars, because they seem to be designed for wall
> mounting. Also, they
>  can probably take a small knock without serious
> consequences because of
>  shape, while the others would probably be pulled off from
> plasterboard.
>  The only problem is that the ones I saw at RS looked a bit big. I'll
>  look a bit further.
>  Cheers,
>  Nik
>