Well, I clearly was thinking about this speaker crap too much. All I needed to do was wait to get picked up, and then we went to the pawn shop.
$70 for the speakers, and $110 for the receiver. Not the cheapest option I could have done. But I did get it in one day. No soundbar. Don’t need that annoying HDMI switch. Didn’t exactly save any space on the coffee table though. Might be taking up more space then the soundbar. But how much is a small receiver that can do all this? Depends if you can get a used one, a new one, would likely be expensive. Unless Pyle makes something, but it how long will it last? All I know is Denon’s receivers are expensive, a new one might cost at least $400, at least from their site. This is an old model.
The speakers might cost $150 or so on their site, sold out though.
Both are old, and some soundbars you can still buy new are old too. Don’t need or have 8k. Don’t have that much money for a TV obviously anyways.
The speakers were still in the box, it was open though. She said they were “new”, which she could have meant actually new, just open box. Or they look new. Well, they work, so who cares.
And also, I paid $11 for a 6 month warranty, I think only on the receiver, which is fine, as the person I was with looked at the speakers, and took something off, and they know more then me. What all can go wrong with these kind of speakers? They use speaker wire, that’s all I know.
I sort of know how to cut speaker wire and get the plastic thing off so you can plug it in. The cutting part is easy, after you figure out to use the part that looks sharper. I was only paying attention to the part they showed me on taking the plastic part off clearly. I mostly remembered to just twist. Need to know that if soldering as well. I’ve cut the entire cable, and now some cables are shorter then I intended because of it. Well, I didn’t waste any speaker cable. Got 100 FT though, probably the only one Walmart had. No optical cables, but the receiver has ARC anyways.
I don’t need all that speaker wire, but they might need some of it, or all of it. Said something about setting up a speaker system in their garage.
And the ARC took too long to get working, cause I forgot some stuff, like my TV don’t fully turn off when you turn it off. Not sure disabling the option to not keep the USB on would solve it either. And the other option is set to the mode that should be right. Didn’t bother changing the USB power setting. Too lazy to plug it into a power meter thing, to see if it’s still using power when off after doing so. And if it’s still using power, the question will be why? And also, it may fix it, and still use power. And it’s working, so no point in changing the settings. Unless the receiver dies. And if changing the USB power setting, doesn’t fix it, I wasted time turning it off.
The manual said something about turning shit off. And then somebody about some problem with the receiver said to unplug the receiver. Well, I unplugged both the receiver and TV. Also, reset the damn thing too. I reset it two times, not sure how quickly I reset it either the first time, might have been before I was trying to get the ARC to work. I got sound first using Bluetooth. Then the Atari VCS, which is plugged into the receiver. They also say you need the HDMI control turned on to send it sound, well it wasn’t working after I enabled that either. It was connected, just no sound. After turning TV off and on after enabling CEC on TV, and enabling it on Apple TV, I could see the volume changing on the TV and receiver. Probably a TV issue, but if unplugging shit, unplug the receiver too.
Should have plugged the receiver in very last, plug speakers in, unplug TV first before doing anything, then plug receiver and TV in. Then turn it on, then reset it.
There’s two ways to reset, the menu way, might not be a complete reset. If you hold the buttons down, the setup thing may have been different. But also, I may have been on the wrong input the first time, when I thought the remote wasn’t working right. It shows stuff on the TV, and you have to be on the input the receiver is plugged into on TV. Never had anything for sound do that either. Kind of cool. But that means you have to use an HDMI port possibly, to show the setup thing. Maybe if no HDMI is plugged into ARC, you don’t need that to run the setup, cause if you do, that could be a problem for some people.
Well, if I ever get a new receiver for whatever reason, I’ll try to remember the above, to unplug the TV, not plug receiver in, reset the receiver.
Clearly this receiver wasn’t reset, as it didn’t show the setup thing right away. Also, how were the speakers configured? Don’t remember, did look at it I think before resetting it. But then realized, I should just reset the damn thing. Why didn’t whoever brought it to pawn shop reset it? No way to know why at least for me.
Also, those speakers sound fine to me, might even like them more then soundbases as well. So apparently $70 speakers, are better then any soundbar I’ve had, including the Vizio with Dolby Atmos. That was probably $300 or so. Not even sure I need a subwoofer either.
You’ll find lots of opinions on the internet about those speakers though. Might as well all be opinions. Somebody was wondering if those speakers are as bad as people say on the opinion site Reddit. A review for them on that site, even said something about opinions.
The best way to know if you will like something, is to hear it before you buy it. There’s other options, well Polk makes some expensive stuff, some people seem to like some of their stuff. The person I was with noticed the speakers. Said they were good. Well, I got lucky, and only spent $70 on the speakers. If there’s ever a problem, I can get new speakers anyways. The receiver and speakers appear to be fine so far, haven’t done much though.
Also, can the plastic thing on speaker wire be removed without also removing at last one little piece of wire strand? Well, more then that for me. But not sure it’s possible to do it perfectly. Better then me, most likely. But it works, and I didn’t completely cut the wire again. Well, I probably cut off too long of a piece anyways. So I could have kept cutting off the end for a while, and not have to cut another piece. Good thing I’m bad at guessing how long something should be, and too lazy to measure it or anything. Got 100 FT, why do I need to measure it? Not going to use 100 FT obviously for one speaker either, or even 50 FT for both speakers, that I might be able to not do. There’s probably over 50 FT left, but I’m too lazy to measure it. Clearly I never should have measured my cock either.
The receiver only came with a remote, and the power cord is attached. Power cord attached kind of sucks. But it works for now, so who cares. Didn’t even know about it having the ability to use a microphone to optimize the sound. Can I use any microphone or a cheap microphone? Well, then I might need to put it on a tripod. I could do so. Might have more then one way to do so as well. I know I have a video rig, the microphones I have can attach to. Also, if it’s only a USB microphone, what kind? Cause the thing I plug those into, plugs into shit using USB. Now if it uses a microphone that isn’t USB, that might work as well, cause those plug into the USB thing with some kind of cable.
Too much thinking. And what does optimizing mean anyways? Cause it sounds fine to me. Though I might have to have the volume up louder then I think I should have to have it up. But I can just change various things to fix that anyways. Not sure changing the distance does anything, changed it to 6 FT I think, not very far from it, I know that. And that may have not made it louder. Not for volume level? Well, no idea then what that’s for.
There’s a PS5 in front of one of the speakers, and sounds fine too. Neither speaker appears to be louder then the other either. You can do that if you want though, change the DB for one of them to a higher or lower value then the other.