Qed claim that the strands of conductor is only being utilised at 75% following the standard design .. the middle part is not being utilised therefore they put a core there so that the conductor surrounding the core can be utilized without wastage.

I am not recommending you this cable nor telling u this cable is good or bad. You asked what is I mean by technology I am trying to give u an example how technology is being applied by qed. Its not as simple as just a strand of coppers like u described. You can also argue that you can buy the same china copper lines and work as great as qed. I have no objection I don't stand by any brand on this case.

Audioquest is famous in isolating noise. I m using their sub cable.

I dont agree with cable matching speakers concept unless you are asking about the gauge sizing because your speaker ohm n distance will affect the awg of the cable u r buying.

I will say cable is like color of the paint of ur car. Speaker is ur car. Somebody like blue somebody like red. There no 1 set of theory how u should paint your car. There's nobody can advise you or guarantee u that u buy a set of cables and u will 100% like it. Instead of getting urself in circle just settle down with proper copper speaker wire and pay more attention like the gauge size that you need to run for different distance from your speakers.

If you worry you not be able to change ur speaker cables after you conceal it just run the conduit inside ur wall so u can pull up if u wish to upgrade in future.

I think I m going to leave to other shifu for the recommendation. And I hope I answer the doubt u have with my statement earlier.

This post has been edited by kevinlim001: Aug 10 2020, 07:59 PM

u using qed bro? I wanted to try but the price turn me away..

The awg make sense? Will they provide a ref awg no? But if ur speaker distance is not far it should be fine i guess

I see
What's the configuration are doing? Bi amp bi wire or jumper? Jumper with red at high black at low not helping?

I see.. nvm thats the fun part of hifi never ending exploring to improve keke

i do agree with this.. we cant feed all the information and compress so it can be understand in 1 day.

HT/Hifi are like tea/coffee.. not all us share the same taste bud. In the journey of learning, you learn and recognize the problem and find a way to solve it. Getting the fundamental correct is important and had been highlighted over over again. Basic stuff like power supply/room treatment has to be consider prior starting.

This post has been edited by kevinlim001: Aug 14 2020, 04:13 PM

@JustCheeze - mind to share how much you will be investing for your new HT? What you are planning to buy?

with 50k for 5.1.4 you can do plenty of stuff d. first get your room + power supply sorted out then decide your pre pro. Then speakers - go for audition and pick the one that pleased your ear. By right at around these few months we are going to have KLAV but this year, due to covid it get canceled. At least you are able to audition some of the HT in KLAV if its happening.

Get some standard speakers cable and make sure those which you build in in wall can be change easily without hacking in future if you want to change speaker wire.

no room is the same, you will face your own acoustic problem with the room you are setting up. experience with placement of the speakers, sub or MLP. with your room dimension its better for you to utilize the long wall.

i am using PB3000 - fitting my car boot just nice, 4000 series is using a higher powered amp and .5 inch bigger driver. SB and PB behave in differently on the frequency response and the SPL. If you extreme low freq like in movies go for PB. if you like fast response driver with better precision over music go for SB. If you got a large room to cover you can consider PB series from 4000 or even 16 Ultra.

go for ported model if
1) most of the time you deal with movies - more pressure and better low without fast rolling off
2) your room and accommodate the bigger footprint

seal model is better on accuracy if you are doing more music and you do not have big room

dual pb2000 pro is an good option.. get pb2000 pro if your budget allows. Pro comes with apps control and improved output compare to normal version

sensitivity rated at 85db.. one of the lowest that i have come across

your room is not too big.. if you plan to play loud then you should choose PB series. If you like SB natures, the set that is better than SB3000 is SB16 Ultra. SB4000 doesnt makes a lot of differences.

for music setup best is to put dual in front for stereo imaging.. for movies setup it varies.. you need to try and find the spot for the room.
some reading if you have not do so: https://www.svsound.com/blogs/subwoofer-set...oofer-placement and https://www.svsound.com/blogs/subwoofer-set...195-why-go-dual



This post has been edited by kevinlim001: Sep 2 2020, 01:12 PM

share some photo later

if its possible runs conduit / trunking in your wall so that the next time you want to change speaker wire you still have a way to do so.

look for max
https://www.maxxht.com/contact

lets start with the basic.. 5.1 indicates the number of channels /speakers.. the first number 5 indicates you have 5 speaker that gives you surround audio on the ground level. .1 indicates 1 unit of subwoofer. In the recent years, there is another extra channel being made up for sound coming from above.. so in recent format you will see something like 5.1.4... where .4 means there are 4 speaker being used for the audio from above.

The whole idea here is to put you in a zone where you are surrounded by audio

The image above shows a 7.1.4 system

Next we move to the purpose of the woofer. The woofer is a speaker with big driver (from 8 inch to 16 inch).. The job for this speaker is to send low frequencies that will bring impact on your action movies (guns firing/explosion etc etc). Without it you only hear the sound but you cant feel the impact

with budget of 2-3k you have pretty limited option. If you have a standard HT plan ahead and you have nothing with you yet, you can look for a budget Audio Visual Receiver (AVR) and 2 bookshelf speakers to start with then slowly add in.. AVR is like a multichannel amplifier that process audio from your TV or your bluray player and send signal to your speaker.

If you do not want to invest too much you can spend your 2-3 k on a sound bar which is an upgrade over tv audio.

seriously it depends what you want.. for me i know where i m going.. let me share u my case.. i inherited a set of 5 surround speakers being driven by pioneer HT (those combo set that you see from shopping center where u can connect small speakers to a dvd player).. when i moved to my new house - maybe short circuit the pioneer HT burned and refused to turn on.

I started to invest on AVR to drive the 5 speakers.. then i bought a subwoofer.. then i upgraded my center speaker (the most important speaker where most of the conversation from movies will comes from this speaker) then the first sub i bought having problem and i bought a new sub.

slowly to upgrade the fronts to give better sound stage and to upgrade my avr are part of my next upgrade list. maybe after that only think of ceiling speakers for atmos

rough idea of the cost of the avr when i bought it was around 2k+, the subwoofer also 2k+ that time..

HT/Hifi are pilled up by cash.. the more cash u r spending the better system u r getting.. thou some may disagree..

in ur case , like i said if you are not planning to spend a lot in future, u can just get a simple component set (let it be samsung/sony/panasonic) with those slim speakers or sound bar and enjoy..

if u r serious of having a plan down the road you can start investing on a AVR and start with 2 speakers and slowly add in.. you can also look for second hand speakers/receiver

go ahead and explore.. come back once u have plan.. we can give some suggestion if required. we cant be spoon feeding you here from 0-100% because not all of us shares the same expectation.. u need and explore but feel free to check back when you have problem.. we have a lot shifu in this tread.. i m also learning from them

This post has been edited by kevinlim001: Oct 20 2020, 11:02 AM

still too complex ka.. let me think think

ehehe thanks for the feedback.. let me include that element also

2.1 definitely going to win over your TV speakers.
whats your budget.. besides receiver and fronts you might want to consider subwoofer too.