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audio is just as important as visuals don't believe me well here's some 480p

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footage with great audio and here is some crisp 4K with bad

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audio that is why so many of you invest in upgrading your TV speakers but here's

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the thing thousands of you every month are doing it wrong when we looked at the

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Bose TV speaker a couple of years ago we concluded that it was okay but also that

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if you have this kind of money to spend you can do much better how much better

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how about a dedicated AV receiver how about six Channel Dolby audio how about

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all of that for less than the price of one of these don't believe me just watch

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Step One is to rip out my bougie sound

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system step two plug in the Bose TV speaker for a before test I'm Still A

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the just like this sound

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fine not a lot of Base but what do you expect it's fine yep step three is to

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hit up the local Facebook marketplace where we found a total of three

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solutions that we think have a solid crack at beating our bows and look at

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one is the Sony htsf 2300 it may be a

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lowly home theater in a box kit But it

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includes a dedicated only semi- proprietary receiver that's going to

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unlock a lot of options for us these non-standard speaker connectors will be

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a minor thorn in our side later as will the HDMI 1.2 connector when we need to

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grab a separate remote in order to change TV inputs or adjust volume but

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for the quality I think the tradeoff is going to be worth it compared to our TV

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speaker we'll be hooking this up using the same Optical link that we used for

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the Bose TV speaker originally we had hoped to find a receiver that would

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handle video switching for us as well but it turns out that even the worst

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ones that will handle 4K would have immediately blown our budget man toss

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link was so cool the data rate started low and stayed low so it can only do 5.1

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but it's not susceptible to any kind of interference which is uh pretty cool now

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comes the part where we actually set everything up ah yes how not tedious

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thankfully he included the cables for those proprietary Clips nice you might

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have noticed by the way that we cheated and totally did not take my gear out of

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here yeah that's where we're ending that

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we're needing to get a little bit creative about uh speaker positioning

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here but that's one of the drawbacks of a setup like this by the way this kit

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originally came out in July of 2007 and was around $500 back then or 750

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adjusting for inflation thankfully we only paid 40 Canadian rubles for this

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wow that's a great value I have High Hopes I mean it even includes the stands

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oh and their height adjustable that's pretty

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cool yeah a convenient thing about these kits is they typically come with all the

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cables you need though I suspect in this case you'll probably want to cut it a

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little short like how far back are they expecting you to put this thing um but

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one thing that was missing from our kit even though it came with it originally

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is a calibration microphone the good news is it should work with any

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omnidirectional mic so we brought one from the office to give it a test

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oh yeah that's not good okay we might

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have to just manually measure everything okay we'll give that a try I thought I'd

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try cool yeah did you put batteries in the remote no sir oh wow these expire in

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2014 they aged like fine battery

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wine obviously we could have spent a little bit more time on cable management

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but in terms of just getting everything connected and powering the thing on that

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minutes I can already immediately notice

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the room being more full than the bow Soundbar well like I mean there's only

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so much that you can do with computational bouncy nonsense having

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dedicated speakers especially if you're going for an old or a more basic setup

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that is not going to be as modern there's just no substitute for it yeah

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this is immediately more immersive what I didn't expect it that that easy 40

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bucks yeah um now I do think that there's

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probably some things we could tune whoever was using this before had their

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subwoofer at minus5 their surrounds at plus five uh so I think they just really

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wanted to hear a lot of surround so I just need to find a factory reset

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clearing it takes about 30 seconds to clear it

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cleared that was a very fast 30 seconds yep that's what she

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said you're rolling now I hear that twice little bit of manual setup in

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terms of making sure it's configured to the right setting but all right should

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we try listening again yes okay we should probably set the distances for

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the speakers though remember we factory reset it we

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need a measuring tape

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okay oh dude is this tape measure not long enough oh I think I broke it no I'm

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good I'll be right back it's only a 6ft tape measure cuz he's only 5'2 it

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matter oh look at that 10t 8 in I think this bad boy is configured

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okay you ready let's watch a movie I'm actually very ready I'm I'm kind of

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excited wow dude it crushes for $40 it

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destroys it it this is

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Canadian right so that's crazy that's like $30

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us it's not amazing no the base in

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particular kind of lacking but what it

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is is is amazing for the price yeah at a

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fraction of the cost of the Bose it is multiple times better in every possible

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way and we haven't even touched on one of the biggest advantages that's

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modularity while our ancient Optical Connection prevents us from hooking up

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additional surrounds a second sub or height channels the jump from stereo or

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an inexpensive Soundbar to a dedicated 5.1 setup is way more noticeable than

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the jump from 5.1 to say

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7.1 and coming back to modularity

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nothing prevents us from taking those few channels that we do support and

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swapping out our speakers for something better that is as long as everything is

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rated for the same impedance more on that later first let's give it a try by

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swapping out our left and right channels for these Phillips FWB MC 50s just a

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quick snip job a little

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strip a little twist making sure to match up the black striped cable with

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our black cable and finish it off with whatever Fastener suits your purposes

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yes I know morett suck I don't care it's fine for what we're doing once again

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we'd obviously do this a little differently in a final install but the

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point is just to evaluate the sound quality and we're not accounting for

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these stands in our budget cuz we could easily wallmount these we actually got a pretty good deal

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on these considering some eBay listings list them for triple the price what' we

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pay 40 Canadian just for these speakers okay so now we're at 80 bucks let's see

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if they improve our experience a

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lot those sound a lot better yeah they do that is almost a bad thing in this

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case because it really draws your attention to how bad that Center channel

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is yeah the clarity we're still missing

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the base boom of a proper powered subwoofer but the clarity is a night and

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day difference and just having that little wimpy thing mixed into it is like

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like I don't know it's like having someone talking over the person you're

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trying to have a conversation with again modularity you could swap it out though

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and you'll probably want to check this out

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guys I didn't think it'd be this

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obvious but like even through my lab mic

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over YouTube I bet you guys can hear the difference between those two and if you

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can't well hey just stick with the stock speakers and be happy with better

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surround speaking of before we change out any speakers we want to upgrade Our

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receiver to give ourselves better amplification for you know future

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proofing we'll talk about the exact one we chose in a minute but first there's

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two major things you want to watch out for when you're shopping for a receiver

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one is the Io if you're looking for video switching you need to ensure that

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at least the output of the receiver supports the minimum revision of HDMI

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that can handle the resolution and the refresh rate that your TV is operating

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at number two is going to be the impedance rating if your speakers are

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higher than what your receiver can do you might not get the full volume or

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range whereas if they're too low your devices could overheat and even burn out

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there is some wiggle room though as you're about to see have a look at this

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our St Str DA 1000ss has a little switch

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to go between 4 and 8 ohms our speakers

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are rated for six so according to this little label that's handly silk screened

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right on the back we just need to switch it to 4 Ohms and we should be good to go

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just from looking at the back you can tell this is a much higher end product

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with way more available inputs however you can see that um HDMI is

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conspicuously absent so unless you're planning to hook your PS1 up to it

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you're not going to be using the video switching capabilities even the audio

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hookups are almost all stereo so they'd only be useful for like a CD

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changer so we're going to be stuck with 5.1 over Optical but we're still going

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to have a much more po potent amplifier oh don't don't put this in the video she

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cut my morrettes off do not put this in the video people already hate me on the

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audio side though things are a little more interesting in addition to the

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digital input which is what we'll be using just like with this receiver it

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has a full 5.1 analog input which theoretically would allow us to use a

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third-party decoder box to support more modern formats though we still wouldn't

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be getting height channels or secondary subwoofers or anything like that because

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those analog inputs are only 5.1 even though on the output side there appears

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to be support for more channels so we're just going to use it as a better 5.1

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amplifier now we're just about ready to try this thing out but we realized

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something our kit subwoofer doesn't use a standard connector this is a bit of a

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spoiler for later we did buy one more kit that had this chuner of a sub we're

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just going to use it now okay perfect let's do it I can tell just from the

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weight that this is going to be one heck of an upgrade wait are we still using

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this for our Center channel right okay we'll upgrade that later oh Bud butd

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easy don't even don't even worry about

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it it's a Wii sensor bar it's worth

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noting by the way that if your TV for whatever reason doesn't support Optical

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out you can also get these little Arc to Optical adapters for about 20 bucks

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allowing you to use an older receiver like this with a more modern HDMI ARC

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setup took us a little while to figure out the interface here but we've got our

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speaker setup config figured H okay 5.1

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and then we've got all of our distances dialed in and the sub is not on oh the

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sub's working the sub's working the price we've paid at this

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point is a little bit complicated because we're using the center channel

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and rear channels from our original $40 setup we're using our $85 amp is that

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all we paid for that yeah sick and then we borrowed the subwoofer from the

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$200 3.1 setup that we bought so

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and we're using the $40 Phillips as well we're at maybe a couple hundred bucks

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yeah and again that's Canadian I'm still a part of

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the this sound quality is fine totally

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fine like dude the better amp it helps

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freaking slap yeah I wasn't expecting it

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to make that big of a difference with such basic speakers especially our

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Center Channel but I mean part of what

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you're going to get from a better amp is cleaner output and this is a very

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musical section of this song so we're really taking advantage of the left and right

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channel I can see how people get addicted to this yeah the constant like

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need to add the next speaker or the next

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receiver or Center channel right tweak the next thing okay and we haven't even

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turned this up yet

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all I need is change all that Center channel is Garbo

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so it's time to jump ahead and

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uh get a new center channel in here shall we question for you as we're

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hooking this up these were part of another home theater in a box right I

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couldn't quite tell cuz all of these model numbers on these Sony's are

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slightly different I think the three speakers we got were part of a kit the

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receiver that this seller was selling was part of a different kit and I don't

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believe this sub was part of that kit either no it wasn't for sure so I think

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whoever we bought it from also was doing a mix Mash of everything cool

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dude you versus the guy she tells you not to worry about exactly dude I am

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excited to see how this goes we're swapping those Philips bookshelves into

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our rear channels and then we're using our new front channels which as you can

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see are a little

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stronger what really blows my mind is

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that we have by no means dialed this in

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properly if I gave myself an afternoon

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to play around with it and fine-tune

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it we went at the same price from yeah

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yeah it's better than the TV speakers but

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to good enough like I would never walk

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into someone's living room or theater room or whatever listen to these

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speakers and go yeah but they could be better yeah oh yeah they're good enough

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yeah our total price was 325 Canadian or

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about 240 us so we were actually under

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the Bose TV speaker mean for our endgame setup for our endgame setup that we have

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right now we had enough left over that we could buy a DVD to watch on

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it or hear me out maybe we put that toward a universal remote or something

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even with those inconveniences we basically crushed the competition

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everything from dialogue Clarity to music quality to maximum volume to

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immersion is clearly better than our

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Soundbar so why are sound bars so

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popular well if you were watching this going gee that looked pretty

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inconvenient you're not wrong there's all the cabling for starters and even

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more so the effort of tracking down the right products that are going to operate

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together and the right deal because our answer it's not necessarily going to be

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the same as yours the odds that you guys find the exact speakers and receiver

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that we use today are slim to none but

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with that said I think it's safe to say that if you're looking for a more

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immersive experience spending a little bit of time Googling model numbers

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looking over user manuals and maybe even giving them a quick listen before you

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buy could give you way better bang for your buck and even save you hundreds of

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dollars compared to buying a brand new setup what you won't have to spend

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it a static weight capacity of 540 lb

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and a lifting capacity of 440 lbs so

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unless you're pulling a Scrooge McDuck and you just have a mountain of gold

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lying on top it should support just about any setup and their C7 office

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chairs are built to last with a weight capacity of 300 lb and a 10-year

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warranty they feature a bunch of intuitive adjustment options like a 128°

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reclining back rest and the newer C7 Max even adds in a vertically adjustable

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back rest to accommodate different height requirements so check out the

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in the video description if you guys enjoyed this video maybe go check out

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the original home theater video we did almost 2 years ago it was one of my

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dreams to have this place set up and those first impressions did not

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disappoint