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Here is my home entertainment 'hub' (kit list below). I'm moving house in a couple of months and plan to get a new rack/stand and integrate the whole lot around one corner of the living room (plus cutting down on the speaker count). I fancy some Q Acoustics Q-AV rears (very WAF, can put them at skirkting level) buit I will be left with 2 spare Mordaunt-Shorts, so hard to justify that!!

comments please!

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Re: My entertainment lounge
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Here is my home entertainment 'hub' (kit list below). I'm moving house in a couple of months and plan to get a new rack/stand and integrate the whole lot around one corner of the living room (plus cutting down on the speaker count). I fancy some Q Acoustics Q-AV rears (very WAF, can put them at skirkting level) buit I will be left with 2 spare Mordaunt-Shorts, so hard to justify that!!

comments please!

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Re: My entertainment lounge

Well I would post my pics if it wasn't so damn difficult?? any clues anybody?? why can't I just attach a pic?

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Re: My entertainment lounge

oh well...

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Re: My entertainment lounge
HDNumpty:
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk162/Hifinut_photos/AVSystem.jpg

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Re: My entertainment lounge

Entertainment Lounge

There you go - you need to cut/paste the URL into the little Green Tree symbol on the formatting bar.ÿ

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Re: My entertainment lounge

Still can't find the formatting bar, or the tree symbol - and the picture is squashed, don't know why

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Re: My entertainment lounge

Have just tried again following instructions from another post and still can't get to work, now giving up.

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Re: My entertainment lounge

src="http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk162/Hifinut_photos/AVSystem.jpg" width=500 onload=show_notes_initially();

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Re: My entertainment lounge
HDNumpty:
src="http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk162/Hifinut_photos/AVSystem.jpg" width=500 onload=show_notes_initially();



HD, have you thought about selling your front surround speakers and using your B&W stereo speakers as your front two, or are the systems in different rooms? The fixed input on the 840a works a treat.
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Re: My entertainment lounge
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HDNumpty:
src="http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk162/Hifinut_photos/AVSystem.jpg" width=500 onload=show_notes_initially();



HD, have you thought about selling your front surround speakers and using your B&W stereo speakers as your front two, or are the systems in different rooms? The fixed input on the 840a works a treat.



Ignore my last message, I've just read your other post. Your system will sound much better once you do it. Would be interesting to hear your thoughts. I just use a cheapy stereo interconnect (Gotham from ebay) to connect my 840 and receiver and I have the 840 set to 55 (I don't use the -db numbers).
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Re: My entertainment lounge

Cheers G yes that's what I plan to do after moving house - can't do it at the moment due to lack of space, so have two entirely seperate systems. I'd love the B&W CMC Centre, but it's £350 and I would never get it under the radar!!!

p.s. if you can give me some pointers as to what I'm doing wrong with the pics I'll be happy to post them and show you my full system(Drunk

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