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Topic: Your Speaker Placement
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Graham Ritchie
Film God
Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted January 05, 2008 01:24 PM
I was wondering how everyone sets up there speakers, its certainly important to get it right for the best sound, for myself, years ago when I used a ST1200 I made up a "wee box" on the projector stand so that I could connect the speaker output directly to the box, from there two extension speaker L/R outputs came out, the box was made so the speakers were wired in series and were 8ohms each, wired up they came to about 16ohms measured at the projector, I made the speaker boxes myself, cant remember the dimensions "it was long ago" but were made to work best for sound stripe, and worked well with just the single 8ohm speaker, it was said in those days that using normal stereo speakers was not the best option for stripe, the speakers were used a lot for away from home film shows, painted matt black and hung with old aircraft control cables, they were very basic, positioning them half way up the screen, "an old and rather large roller blind also hung up with control cables" the speakers were angled towards the centre of the room, although its been years since they have been used I still think the sound I got from them and the old ST1200 was very good.
Another "wee box" I made in later years was for the GS1200, although with this projector I wanted to have it set up so if I had a mix of stereo or mono films on one reel. I could select on my "wee box", mono or stereo, and always have left and right input going into to the external amp, the sound split for stereo and joined fo L/R mono this I did and it still works well.
So how do you get on?
Graham.
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Paul Adsett
Film God
Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted January 05, 2008 01:51 PM
Hi Graham, I connect from the AUX output sockets of the GS1200 to a Yamaha 10 band stereo graphic equalizer. From there to a little 3 watt amplifier box which has a switch for mono or stereo output, and from there to my main 60 watt Sony pro-logic stereo amplifier. I have five Bose speakers- a front center channel speaker, left and right front stereo speakers, and two rear surround speakers. The front center channel is used exclusively for mono films, and the front left and right speakers for stereo re-recorded films. The surrounds are only used for DVD's - I do not attempt Dolby surround on super 8 as it does not seem to work reliably.
-------------------- The best of all worlds- 8mm, super 8mm, 9.5mm, and HD Digital Projection, Elmo GS1200 f1.0 2-blade Eumig S938 Stereo f1.0 Ektar Panasonic PT-AE4000U digital pj
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