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Damn I was really working myself up to the idea of having a pretty sweet home theater set up. I had decided on focusing it more towards music because I kind of just feel that that'd be more important. Honestly movie audio is kind of trash all you really need is a really loud premium center channel for dialog, then a massive subwoofer to constantly be setting the mood of scenes and then setting off the dramatic stuff to where you feel it. I'd lose a lot of that, especially movies where theres tension in a scene and it's building up over a few minutes. There's always tons of bass and it has a huge impact; bass isn't just explosions and car crashes... that's actually the annoying part of movies sometimes especially if you're not sitting in a good spot in the theater, it can be fatiguing sometimes. I'd rather lose a little of that for just decent enough bass to know its there but not get noise complaints


What the fuck am I talking about

walking around in that sun for a few hours completely restarted my circadian rhythm. I feel like I woke up refreshed from 8 hours of sleep and am good to go again
 
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Damn I was really working myself up to the idea of having a pretty sweet home theater set up. I had decided on focusing it more towards music because I kind of just feel that that'd be more important. Honestly movie audio is kind of trash all you really need is a really loud premium center channel for dialog, then a massive subwoofer to constantly be setting the mood of scenes and then setting off the dramatic stuff to where you feel it. I'd lose a lot of that, especially movies where theres tension in a scene and it's building up over a few minutes. There's always tons of bass and it has a huge impact; bass isn't just explosions and car crashes... that's actually the annoying part of movies sometimes especially if you're not sitting in a good spot in the theater, it can be fatiguing sometimes. I'd rather lose a little of that for just decent enough bass to know its there but not get noise complaints


What the fuck am I talking about

walking around in that sun for a few hours completely restarted my circadian rhythm. I feel like I woke up refreshed from 8 hours of sleep and am good to go again
get your self a decent sound card, an amp, good speaker wire and a decent set of speakers
 

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get your self a decent sound card, an amp, good speaker wire and a decent set of speakers
I have a soundblaster z (trash), a jl audio 500/1 mono amp, I don't know what you mean by "good speaker wire" but I'm pretty sure any 14AWG/12AWG solid copper wire will be fine.

What would you consider decent speakers?

I'm pretty sure it'd be better to take the soundcard 100% out of the equation, and use a receiver to handle it. I was looking into receivers and some of them are fucking sick, features stacked across the board. DTS:X, Dolby Atmos; things like Audyssey where you hook an included mic then set it where you would be listening to your music, and it'll output pink noise for awhile then calibrate your speakers for you to sound the best for you, all types of shit. What the fuck does a sound card have?
 
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I have a soundblaster z (trash), a jl audio 500/1 mono amp, I don't know what you mean by "good speaker wire" but I'm pretty sure any 14AWG/12AWG solid copper wire will be fine.

What would you consider decent speakers?

I'm pretty sure it'd be better to take the soundcard 100% out of the equation, and use a receiver to handle it. I was looking into receivers and some of them are fucking sick, features stacked across the board. DTS:X, Dolby Atmos; things like Audyssey where you hook an included mic then set it where you would be listening to your music, and it'll output pink noise for awhile then calibrate your speakers for you to sound the best for you, all types of shit. What the fuck does a sound card have?
Well, you are going to be running the home theatre through your PC, correct?
 

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so you are using the onboard audio? (the mainboards optical out)
No. Right now I'm using a Soundblaster Z; and I'm saying it's fucking terrible and has no business being in a home theater set up, and I want to use a receiver instead.

I will literally break this sound blaster z in half just to make a point how much I think this thing fucking sucks and just to make a point
 
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HDMI 2.0 handles audio and video now; and nVidia vid cards are basically plug and play with receivers and tv's these days.

least thats what I gathered from about 5 minutes of half-assed research lol
what the fuck

video and audio are seperate lol what are you telling me about video, I'm asking you about audio

You need a sound card on your mainboard, use an optical to the amp (receiver) from the soundcard and speaker wire to the speakers
 
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No. Right now I'm using a Soundblaster Z; and I'm saying it's fucking terrible and has no business being in a home theater set up, and I want to use a receiver instead.

I will literally break this sound blaster z in half just to make a point how much I think this thing fucking sucks and just to make a point
ok, but you need a better sound card and connect that to the amp via optical
 

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receiver is called an amplifier here
I don't know... you said "amp" and i thought this

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I'm holding onto this thing I should try to sell it

I put it on craigslist like 2 years ago and within like 5 hours I got 3 offers; one for $300 one for $200 and someone else was like "well how much were you hoping to get" and I pulled the listing then ignored them all lol