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these exactly the way they are and then just run a wire to them that would solve my entire issue with this product the problem is that I can't because Sony in their Infinite Wisdom didn't include the option to run wires I mean I kind of get it that's the whole point of the product but that doesn't mean that I don't hate it so what do we do now to answer that Sony sent a over one of their new receivers that at least according to the marketing material has the same 360 spatial sound mapping but I'm a little confused by that because they say you can use it with normal speakers like these Prime satellites and Prime elevations from SVS that they sent over but I don't really get it because the whole Special Sauce here is that the speakers have microphones and are aware of their position relative to each other how on Earth are you going to get this same room correction well think about a normal receiver setup right yeah there's no calibration mic for these right you don't set it up and calibrate it that way right in a home theater you have a calibration mic that you put where you want the optimal place and it calibrates the speakers based on that best seat right so in theory we still have a lot of the same information it's just kind of in a different format well whether it works or not you guys are going to know because we're going to have the raw audio files from The Experience before with the HTA 9 and with the new receiver Linked In the video description let's give this a shot shall we it's usually a good sign that it's heavy wait a second why are there so many speakers well I wasn't sure how we were going to do this because like you said before the room is it's not really great for speakers my intention was to just use the TV panel as the center channel like we can do that we can still do that it has like a speaker level input and then just put four speakers you don't want height I wasn't planning to well we have height I mean in theory you can also use them not height you can put them on the ground and bounce them off the ceiling kind of like these speakers well I don't know it's if they're here now then I guess we're doing it oh great no that's Sal you could just glue it back on right does that work oh that's all the drywall paper man that's bad now that the experts on site how are we going to wire this up in a way that is not awful not awful oh I mean getting up is not so bad and once you're above the crown molding getting over is not so bad it's the molding that's the problem uh this going to get real ugly real quick I mean the homeowner is going to really love this one so are you sure that you showed Ivon these speakers and explained where they're going because I feel like we should check the wife explain where they're going I was just going to put them kind of where they already were she had wife approval for the speakers themselves we didn't talk about positioning V all right well this one we got this one you guys are showing her all the obvious stuff what if it's just here um you'll have to angle it this way for sure like you have to angle and now this surface is going to cause Reflections and hurt audio how about like right here this doesn't look that there's a a thing right there those are not the problem this is the problem okay the intention is to put these on the ceiling firing down for overhead audio okay I was told you approved this I didn't approve that in the corner it's not so bad I mean that isn't that bad in the corner right there we'd have two total one in the corner over there are you even the same lady that wouldn't let me put air conditioning ceiling cassettes because they were too ugly totally different do you know how big those were those were like this y by this W yeah but they didn't stick down at least they're like white yeah it's white and it's in the those were white is it going to work oh it's wired oh yeah there's going to be cable channel everywhere yeah wait also I ripped a bunch of paint off the wall no one told me that well where did you think the wires were going to go I don't know NE ones were Wireless but that's what's wrong with them where did you rip the paint off why did you tell her no make a video about these okay it's spooled up pretty good in the bottom there oh wow I reordered the stuff we ordered in the past and they must have changed the product for the skew it's tiny but it fits two wires which is the most we need to run in any direction perfect thank you question for you Sam can you see these wires if I pay attention yes but I Su just the edge of it I wouldn't know it was a cable if I didn't know looks like part of the wall okay new plan finishing nails you have a brad nailer dang it I don't oh did you just knock the trim yeah that's what I was trying to avoid buddy and use the big staple gun I tried that that was not successful if it makes you feel any better this is working really well how's it going Jamie we're just mounting up a couple of these you already had an existing hole so I'm just going to use another one what do you think are these going to hold okay I don't know if they fall on the ground let me know oh yeah look at that yeah it actually looks pretty darn good I I like that the cable channel is small as good a time as any to shout out the Jerry rig everything knife available in a variety of colors and materials at LTT Store.com you thinking right about here I would say go a little higher where do you want that height speaker on this side what way over there yeah so I went and I jammed both of these cables in here for absolutely no reason yeah well you didn't ask you just did it so you should fix this it'll come off it looks not that bad no it looks really bad but it's underneath no it looks really really bad okay well now that's done just grab a shot of that really quick so basically this just goes right to this corner here and that's it yeah okay well that's good at least because then it means that this mess in the corner will be hidden my left there perfect tilt it down a bit more that's good did we pray tell label them on this side yes oh cool I never intended this the whole idea of having a theater room is that this one was not supposed to be all height channels surround sound you know what do you know why do you know why it's a narrow border on the sides and a thick border on the bottom and the top he was going to put a soundbar cuz I was just going to put put a flipping sound bar in blasphemy that was the original backup plan this was never the plan okay so right here is where you want it basically I would grab a speaker and Sanity check it cuz you don't want to have to do that twice well this is about the same height as that one I already I bu that one YOLO okay here we go wait is there a stud there uh I don't know it would be really good to put it in a stud yeah I agree let's find out if we hit one the answer is no ah great we're going to be using the TV as a center channel and in some Brands and models you can only do that with their soundar or whatever this specific TV the Sony a95 K worked well with the HTA 9s as the center channel and it will also work well with just wires because it has both so we can just put our speaker wires into our receiver and use this as a center channel if only Sony's audio folks talked to their TV folks about just you know having just plugging in a wire as a backup then we wouldn't even be in this situation so that is supposed to kind of Point kind of approximately at like kind of where people are going to sit or something no in front sorry slightly in front okay all right I'm calling that good all right I'm over here prepping our subwoofer this is the SVS 3000 micro it's got to be the cutest subwoofer ever uh from what I recall it is actually less than 12 in 1 fo in every Dimension super tiny but it's like 800 W RMS dual opposing subwoofers I'm just putting on their isolation feet here it just helps to reduce the amount of like actual physical like shaking cabinets and stuff and more focus on the noise the sound the bass mechanical vibrations mechanical vibrations reduces the transmission of mechanical vibrations there you go I knew we had Sam here for a reason other than the excellent job he did putting adhesive backings on these cable channels oh apparently you can do the TV Center Channel mode through EC that's kind of cool actually which has been great for family movie night for the last few weeks but we ran out of time to actually get the thing calibrated and then get our after recording for you guys so Sam are we set up Y and it's worth noting that we obviously don't have the hats in the ideal seating position but we're just going to move the couch forward once you guys are done being in my living room with me so this is where the alpha spot will be just scooched forward a bit the calibration process is pretty similar to other AV receivers but with one extra step so we take our included microphone plug it into the front put it in our ideal listing position and then I don't know if this is to do with the 360 spatial mapping or what but we also then put it here and run another check I mean I've never even had one with a stand like this mind you this is like a $2,000 receiver so it's on the more premium end of things yeah we use TVs Center oh God why did they do it like this I don't know it's kind of intuitive is it though yeah you just scroll through and you just pick the picture that looks you just pick the configuration and then add the center one after I don't know TV center speaker perfect overhead speakers what are our options they don't have a oh that's right classification for this style of speaker but we'll dop okay here we go room measurement wait oh like physical measurement okay oh he was ready oh you know what sure fine I'll stay here Sam will do it nice oh all right I'll help 12 ft all right three feet three feet you were right the last time just world's best measuring it's 9 ft okay Green height oh I'm up again jeez I've never done this before yeah does it shame you if your screen height is up here above your fireplace cuz it really should oh my gosh okay okay everyone everyone be quiet! okay and then second measurement we put the mic down there save save that's it that's all that was pretty fast this is the thing that the other Sony does right that it'sing in the right place yeah I mean it says it just this is adding Phantom round back type A is best for movie content yeah so this is going to add surround backs optimize the frequency characteristics of the speaker select the calibration type you want to use sets the frequency characteristics of the Sony Listening Room where this model was developed I mean if that's how Sony thinks it should be heard then it sounds to me like that's how we should listen to it I feel very surrounded those virtual rears yeah did you hear that all quite in the rear of me yeah yeah that's very strange the speakers definitely sound better oh that's no question I mean that yeah they we knew that was going to happen what I didn't think would happen is those virtual rears being so convincing okay honestly for me I didn't feel like I discreetly heard any speakers I mean obviously there's audio and I could kind of tell there's some coming from the side and the front but I didn't feel like I could be like that speaker's there and that one's there and that one's there it it was pretty pretty smooth I guess is the way I would put it I want to check how it uh selected some of these things one of the big things that receivers will do is set speakers to a large setting and what that means is it doesn't cross over the base to the subwoofer you pretty much always want to cross over the base your subwoofer it's going to do a better job than even some expensive massive big speakers so you're going to want to go in and set those all to small even if it didn't do that otherwise hopefully it didn't do that because I imagine we might have to recalibrate oh boy it set them all to large another thing you can do when you're setting up your receiver is configure the cross over manually that calibration is going to try to manually set it although I don't know what it's doing cuz it set them all to large anyways but we're going to go check the website and then you want to set the crossover a little bit above the rated minimum frequency response of the speaker so say if it says like 60 we're going to set it like 70 or 80 and to its credit it automatically set them all to 120 but I think these speakers can go a little bit lower hey look at that they're all small it actually shows you that they're small it's almost like it should be part of this wizard everybody shut up okay now we listen to the demo again I feel like I heard more bass at the end I was going to say we had maybe more bass yeah I want to hear the conductor demo that swing around is really convincing it's really bizarre it sounds like there's a speaker that's a little bit too loud right here like and there's no speaker there at all like that well you hear this one but again we're both not really in the optimal listening listening position yeah but the fact that there are no speakers behind us right now is very surprising every single speaker is in front of my head it might not be as good as if there was surround backs but it is there and that is a lot honestly that is 80 to 90% of the battle because generally speaking for movie watching which is all I really care about the surrounds are just you know to make you feel more immersed there's nothing happening there unless it's like Top Gun there was some happening there can we play Top Gun for a second I mean it's free country yeah okay thanks to Maverick all right let's go you hear that behind you no take it easy oh yeah that weak Center Channel yeah the center Channel's bad I have an extra one of the speakers you could just put a third one in the I might need to do that that Center channel was part of the old setup so for us to do our Apples to Apples comparison here we are going to need to use it oh so you guys are going to listen to like the before and after yeah oh okay come on hit me that hit okay B the second one's the old HTA 9s correct yeah he gets it really well yeah I'm surprised comparing this to hda9 um we thought that the the the positioning was not quite as good but the frequency response is good is better and every time you pick these things I'm surprised like because in my head you don't have like the experience of that that well you don't you haven't had the training that I have but you've had the experience right but every time you do it so quickly and confidently I'm surprised the fact that it's working is all I asked for and if it can sound a little better especially on the base and still have Okay positionality and like what is she going to notice why wouldn't I notice so red is um hda9 green is the new system yeah there you go and and the base extension is way way better this was the old system was going to maybe 40 HZ this goes to maybe 25 it's it's way better yeah and even the the treble slightly better and and the dotted white is actually what we consider Target for in room speaker system yeah but that's going to be really really tough at the very extremes and honestly we are riding that balanced yeah yeah really well balanced so Sony engineer profile very happy with that actually is it just a Clarity thing no The Clarity on both is actually really good those are good speakers for a sound bar but the issue is that the correction is just better on the HTA 9's you could hear it too right and the positioning isight L better with the older ones right yep it's a little bit better but like I said before the surround accuracy is really not Paramount to me it's more about is it even there is this an okay movie watching experience and at that this new setup succeeds really really well and the clarity is definitely better and the fact that we could get rear anything even though we have nothing back there that's awesome to me yeah and also the audio doesn't cut out right that's that's also oh yeah yeah that's the real key I mean when the HTA 9s work they're amazing it's like they're made of magic and when they don't work it's like whole movie night ruined I'm really happy with the side grade even though it costs way more took way more time if they could just do Sony HTA 92 and have it not be crap that's what I would like to recommend to you or what I'd really like to recommend is our sponsor Nord security if you keep up with the tech news as I do you know that hackers are always looking for new ways to compromise everything from Tech Giants servers to Grandma's computer thankfully Nord Security's well-rounded protection package is there to help protect your files devices and personal data online and maybe get a package for your grandma too she's a matriarch check out nordpass a password 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