My Homecinema
I like movies. But I love upper-class audio & vision technology.
Crystal clear pictures and astonishing sound effects is what you need for a decent home cinema setup. You have to choose your components carefully and, of course, need to invest a bit of money…
I decided to get the major components from Pioneer. You get good value for your money and the design is classic.
Another reason to have a single-source supply: You’re pretty sure the components just play together.
The speakers are from KEF. What else…
Currently the screen isn’t full hd because the price tag was just too high when I bought the plasma some years ago.
But the rest of the system supports full hd, so I can just exchange the screen whenever 1080p has come to an affordable price range.
The whole chain also supports 24p, of course.
All the music is stored as high quality mp3 on a NAS running a squeeze center server. I installed 2 squeeze boxes accessing the server via wireless lan for my multiroom setup.
I also attached an apple mac book pro for video streaming from the internet or the NAS.
| Component | Brand | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Screen | Pioneer | PDP-436 XDE 42″ Plasma Display |
| Switch | Pioneer | VSX-LX60 AV Multichannel Receiver |
| BD/DVD Player | Pioneer | BDP-LX70A Blueray Player |
| Speakers | KEF | KHT 6000 Front & Center |
| Surround | KEF | KHT 5005 |
| Subwoofer | KEF | PSW 2500 |
| Digital TV | UPC | Cablecom HDTV Settop Box with HD Recorder |
| Media Center | Apple | MacBook Pro running a Plex client |
| Music Streaming | Logitech | SqueezeCenter & SqueezeBoxes |
| NAS | Netgear | ReadyNAS Duo, 1 TB mirrored |
| Game Console | Microsoft | XBox 360 |
| Game Console | Nintendo | Wii |
| Furniture | Spectral | Closed 2056 |
