My home theater assembly experience

As a person who enters theaters 40 times a year, there has always been a home theater dream. The idea of ​​fragile reality, the house was too small, the living room was too narrow (3.5 meters), and the old-fashioned community did not want to rewire, and the idea had been shelved. A 55-inch TV was roughly enough. Occasionally in the aunt turned the article and saw a single tandem inspired, seeing Cheng Ling into the peak! Don't always think about the same direction as the projection and TV. If the projection is installed on the side of the living room, will the previous problem be solved soon? 3.5 meters hung more than 120 inches, short throw 1.8 meters can cast 120 inches, carefully measured in the living room, found no problem. Once you have an idea, you are out of control. The result can only be: Buy, buy, and buy.

The first step in building a home theater is to choose a projector. Given the limited conditions, of course, to choose a short focus, the first choice is naturally BenQ's star product: W1080ST +, the standard home short-focus machine, almost no short board. So opened Ya Ya ready to start, the results in the purchase interface, found the goods: TH682ST.

In fact, the TH682ST is a new projector that is released at the same time as the W1080ST+ (including the W1070+, TH681ST, and TH681ST+) (Nichia will use the five as the same series) and can be seen as a revision of the W1080ST+. From the perspective of the parameters of the TH682ST, it is more commercial machine parameters, high lumens, less interface, compared with 1080, the same is ultra-short focus, 1080P, support 3D, where the shrink is that 6 color 6 speed into 6 color 2 speed The interface is a little less, especially if there is only one HDMI interface, and the brightness is the commercial machine level, reaching 3,000 lumens (W1080ST+ is 2200), and the price is roughly a difference of 1,000 RMB. When the hand shakes, TH682ST is selected. (Can see a huge price difference with domestic licensed)

From the beginning of the order, 7 days, RP is good, no tax to hand. The total price of 89,800 + 5,850 (transfer costs) = 95,550 yen, or about 4,920 yuan.

Without reinforcement, Nichia's original packaging was used directly. The packaging was then thrown away, and the wooden box was opened. The machine is small and light, giving a package for the machine. Wide voltage power supply, domestic direct use. Simple trial in the living room, ultra-short focus really powerful, small living room weapon!

However, with projection, it is only the first step. The next most urgent task is to support a curtain. In order to make full use of resources, we decided to adopt a 120-inch solution in light of actual conditions. The selection of the curtain also hesitated for a long time, because the genuine screen on Jingdong is more than a word! Taobao's cottage is cheap, but because its delivery length exceeds the standard, most are not delivered to your door. Finally, I chose Ma Yunjia, plus 60 freight, so Debon logistics to the downstairs (second floor, convenient). 120-inch screens are more than 3 meters in length (there are almost 30 pounds in weight). Many elevators cannot get in and high-rise tenants must be psychologically prepared.

The installation of the curtain is a master to the door, because the need to make full use of space, there is no wall design (wall shelves, shoe racks, amplifiers, etc. can be placed), and the use of lifting, with two hooks The expansion screw will get settled soon. The only regret is that its power cord is too short and is somewhat unsightly. But the screen is of good quality and 120 inches shocked! Wall covered feeling!

1.8 meters to cast 120 inches, first saw this effect, really moved to cry. Sure enough, only the size is the most important, the size is enough, what contrast, what picture quality, what rainbow eye, is not important. During the day, the curtains will be pulled up. There will be no problem in indoor viewing, and the effect will be better in the evening. The colors cannot be compared with the IPS TVs, but they are not bad, and the rainbow eyes do not notice them. If it is 1080P source, every two meters to watch, basically do not see the particles, if it is high-definition television signal (720P), there will be a little grainy, and then sit a little longer. In addition, the overall height of the curtain is felt to be a little higher. If it is possible, Taobao can customize the curtain black border merchants. Since there are TV signals of TV+Telecom in the home, television receives telecom, and the projection receives the TV signal of radio and television.

This is the effect of the day.

No matter how the wiring, this connection power amplifier and projection HDMI cable is no way to hide, and only so connected. Using a simple bed computer desk on the coffee table, make full use of space.

There are few interfaces behind the projection, but generally HDMI is also used. Because of the power amplifier, an HDMI interface is sufficient. The following is the effect of the evening.

For this projector, I am very satisfied with the overall situation and I no longer regret that I did not choose W1080ST+ at the time. After all, less than 5,000 yuan short-focus +1080P + 3D, but also what is required.

Finally came a panoramic view.

With projectors and curtains, the prototype of a simple home theater is there. The projector comes with a speaker and is actually ready for use. However, the effect of the projector's own speaker can only be said to be loud, and it is necessary to have a power amplifier. Selected amplifiers are also selected over and over again for a long time. Dafa, LG, Philips and other low-end users have read over and over again, each has its own advantages, but they all have a common problem. Amplifiers have no HDMI IN, which is more troublesome. Now from the computer to the set-top box, from a variety of boxes to game consoles, basically an HDMI cable is complete, if there is no HDMI IN, it means that you have a machine to score two lines, HDMI directly into the projection, but also use the optical fiber output to Power amplifiers are not only troublesome but also annoyed with wiring. After thinking about it, or decided to have a true power amplifier, so that the choice of face is suddenly narrow, in fact, in the 2K, including the 3K price below, there are only two optional, that is, Onkyo's HTS201.

And Pioneer's HTP 072.

The former is out of stock for a long period of time, so the latter is chosen and the single HDMI cable, patch panel, and so on, with 100 in 1000 provinces, and East vouchers with 2000 minus 150 points, can be regarded as low prices. The advantage of this product is its power amplifier. Although it is simple, it is a standard power amplifier after all. HDMI 4 input and 1 output (set-top box, box, and XBOX can all be used), perfect! This support, such as 4K, 3D, DTS, also supports.

Of course, this product also has its inherent flaws. First, the subwoofer is passive (and cannot be upgraded into an active subwoofer). Second, the satellite box is small and the sound quality is general. But in terms of the actual use of my small living room, the subwoofer is fully adequate, the volume and sound quality are also in line with expectations, and the volume is about to be shocked at 50, and it is estimated that the neighbors will knock on the door. Another very silent situation is that the menu interface can't be displayed under the HDMI output! You must use the AV cable output to display it, but fortunately its default settings are sufficient. For the time being, no advanced settings have yet been used. The satellite box is equipped with a pylon, with screws or cross hooks, it is very convenient to hang the wall, the front three speakers of the line is 4 meters, the rear two satellites around the line is 10 meters, a small living room wiring (from The corner is still more than enough. DTS5.1 is quite shocking. In addition, it is also possible to virtualize the 2.0 audio source to 5.1, and there are multiple modes that can be adjusted to watch television. Originally used with the TV is the R1800 TIII Edifier, can only say that this goods or listen to music.

Power amplifier installation is very simple, according to the requirements of the specification, red and white lines were connected to the corresponding interface on the line. The specific function of the amplifier is more, because its setup menu has not been used, so its default settings are completely used. If you are not satisfied with the default settings, you can individually adjust the default volume of each speaker according to your needs. The remote control can easily select the input source and various sound effects.

The amplifier is very large and has a little weight.

Satellite box hanging wall effect.

With projections and power amplifiers, home theaters have been set up. Apart from that, there are still some scrap items to help. The first is the player. Since the USB interface of this set of amplifiers can only play music on Apple devices, it is necessary to use a high-definition player. The Haimeidi Mango Q H7 II box with a rich interface was selected.

This box is all good, but it's a bit nonsense. Although hardware support, the latest default firmware does not support DTS and AC3 audio coding! Also have to find a patch to put on, after playing 5.1 perfect decoding.

Also equipped with a cheap mobile hard disk to install the movie, after the coupon 549, it should be the cheapest 2T USB3.0 it. Yijie’s hard drive was bought several times without any problems.

Projector is not equipped with 3D glasses, so Shangma Yun family engage in two cheap active 3D glasses, the effect is still good, look Avatar, Hubble, underwater world classic 3D movies, there is a feeling in the theater.

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In addition, because of the order of the Prime Minister, telecommunications bandwidth has doubled, and now it is already 100M (Chengdu 169 yuan package, 100M fiber bandwidth + telecommunication TV + 17G traffic + 2000 minutes call length). Therefore, the routing and network card were updated (Nima to use the telecommunications number to fully use it, and then went to buy a glory 6+... Glory 6+ is very easy to use).

It should be regarded as a fairly inexpensive AC Gigabit dual-band combination, which basically overcomes the bottleneck in wireless transmission. At 9:00 PM peak time, the measured download speed exceeded 10M/S to achieve the desired effect.

In this way, a simple home theater is officially completed. Total cost: projector (4920 yuan) + curtain (450 yuan) + 3D glasses 2 (115 yuan) + amplifier speaker (1850 yuan) + box (269 yuan) + mobile hard disk (449 yuan) + routing (178 yuan) + Network card (99 yuan), a total of 8330 yuan.

In the end, we should ask Xiaobian to specifically talk about equipment assembly. There is no doubt that the core of the home theater is the amplifier (which is why I have always stressed the need for the HDMI IN interface), so the layout of all other devices is centered on the amplifier. The specific wiring is that all external devices are input to the amplifier with HDMI. , and then by the amplifier HDMI output to the projection. At present, there are three main input sources: TV set-top boxes, high-definition playback boxes, and XBOX 360. All of them are equipped with HDMI OUT devices. It is very simple to set up, completely fool-proof, and the signal source switching can be easily accomplished with the power amplifier remote controller. .

There are too many remote controls at home. . .