I’ve been slowly building the best inexpensive home theater possible. By best I mean not a set from a box at Wally World, and by inexpensive I mean on a grad student budget. I have also used a lot of credit card points. I also put everything on my Amazon wish list, then monitor the price for a while.
What I currently have:
37″ Vizio LCD
Panasonic DMP-BD35 Blu-ray player
Yamaha NS-C225 center speaker
Yamaha NS-333 speakers – these are currently in front, but will move to the back surrounds in the future. There is also a pair being used for regular surrounds.
Yamaha RX V663 7.1 Receiver
Still to come:
Yamaha NS-777 speakers (for the front).
Yamaha 10 inch sub. This will have to wait until we’re done with apartment life. Someday the Vizio will also be upgraded to a 1080p projector. Someday when I have something called a salary.
Anyone else have any materialistic proclivities?
shenpa warrior 
May 12th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
I envy you! Oops, good thing you aren’t my neighbor, haha. We still have a CRT tv (20 some inches though!) and no Blu Ray. Having to be 220v compatible has kept me from going crazy with a home theater. In fact, when I was single, I had a better system than I do now! haha.
BTW, my verification word is “sucker”, not sure if it is directed at me or you?!?!?! 🙂
May 12th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Hahaha. I’m sure the “sucker” refers to me, and my embrace of material things!
May 13th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Addictions aren’t bad. You should give all of your equipment to me, and I’ll break you of that addiction :D.
I would really like to be a smartphone connoisseur, but you know…for devices so small, they are rather expensive. Poor college students can’t afford that (and even if I could, I couldn’t in good faith pay the ridiculous monthly rates).
So, I have a lot of phones that I look at but don’t touch. I’m saving my pennies though…
May 13th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
If i had more money to spend, I’d buy clothes and garden stuff.
(that is actually what I do spend my money on most of the time, but I’d like more)
May 14th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
I had a decent affordable HTS that I was happy with. My wife complained anytime I used it, said all the noise and shaking walls gave her a headache. So now since we’ve moved it sits in a box somewhere. No use setting it up if anytime I use it she gets in a bad mood, right?
May 14th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Even with the sub turned down or off? We currently do not use a sub due to the apartment walls shaking.
But yes, it’s not worth upsetting one’s spouse. 🙂
May 14th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
woofers, wow!
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Did you ever finish the project? I was trying to search your blog but couldn’t find anything. I could help cowrite an artical on Home Theater Seating if you would like. I know a bunch.
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Home Theater seating, nice! No room right now, but a relative of mine just installed some of those a while back. Pretty slick, although the back row needs to be raised up a little…
I ended up getting the sub, and have decided to wait on any bigger speakers for now, given the lack of space…
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Yes, if you don’t put floor risers in, you end up staring at the back of the chair in front of you. I’ve only seen plywood covered in carpet, there might be a market for floor risers out there. I had a problem with the neighbors at our last place with our sub woofers, he liked to read and I like to watch the terminator really really loud 😦
June 22nd, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Yamaha make some very good speakers I love my home theater that i bought a few years back!
November 5th, 2012 at 4:11 pm
you are off to a great start! keep it up!
November 9th, 2012 at 8:50 am
Thanks 🙂 The last thing I added were some Yamaha 777’s in the front. They look awesome. Every once in a while I get a chance to really turn them up and it’s pretty fun.
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