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Designing FiringSquad’s Reference Home Theaters

Designing
FiringSquad’s Reference Home Theaters
Building a home theater is no different than building a custom
computer. Just as you can buy a complete PC from HP starting for a
couple hundred or a Blackbird 002 for a couple grand, you can certainly
save time by going with a pre-packaged home-theater-in-a-box (HTIB).
HTIBs aren’t synonymous with budget-quality performance either. While
Wal-Mart’s $59.87 “5.1 Durabrand Home Theater System” won’t bring the
full movie theater experience home, I’m sure it’ll outperform the
speakers on the $300 TV it is probably going to be used with. Likewise,
there is probably no better premium pre-packaged HTIB solution than the
JBL Synthesis line, which starts at $15,000 for an entry-level setup,
sufficient to provide reference quality movie experience in the home,
to the Synthesis Everest, retailing at over $200,000 and featuring four
18” subs, and 800 watts per channel into 11 speakers.

Slashdot | Building a "Reference" Home Theater

Here's a much more useful article for anyone who actually wants to setup a great HT. My version's also going to be much shorter and based on much better research, since I actually occasionally work as an independant HT consultant to help people out:

1. For speakers go to Ascend Acoustics. The 170's are great, if you have a small room, go ahead and get the even smaller ones. Buy them w/the mounting bracket and aim 'em all towards the center of the "sweet spot" you want in your room. $1200 w/shipping and brackets.