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planning on slowly improving this over the next year... just got the 683's... next step is getting an HTM-62... then a bigger TV.... then a new AV Receiver.... maybe some coloured LED lighting along the way... and some surround speakers... maybe a sub (although the 683's have plenty of that - perhaps more than my neighbours like already!!)... not sure what else...?!

 all opinions appreciated! :)

Nice

Do you have any surround speakers at the moment?? I would probably sort out the centre and get some surrounds first of all.

Messiah:

Nice  Do you have any surround speakers at the moment?? I would probably sort out the centre and get some surrounds first of all. 

no surrounds at the moment, but once i get the HTM-62 i will have a spare M1. might try it out as a rear on one side to see how it sounds. M1's are cheap as chips, so not a big deal to get another one, and i've got around 20m of speaker cable leftover from a big roll i bought from ebay, so not too big a deal to set it up.

all that said... not sure if you can see from the pics, but the room is kinda L-shaped, so there isn't much room behind the main sofa to position rear speakers. so i think adding rear speakers would produce very inconsistent acoustics for the various seating positions available - more so than i think i'd be comfortable with...

ear:

how do you find the sound of that entry level yamaha and those big speakers?

yeah, i know what you mean - i was worried about that too. certainly it does seem a little odd to run £900 speakers from a £120 av receiver.

but to be honest - it's fine. i might not be getting all of the detail that i could be getting out of the 683's, but i am getting a heck of a lot of detail. while watching "Aliens" the other night i couldn't have felt happier -  the sound was big and full, with excellent detail. and during the scenes where the ships are flying to or from the alien planet, there's this incredible deep bass that you almost feel rather than hear.

i might change my mind about this once i upgrade the av receiver, but i certainly don't feel anything too negative about the current setup at the moment.