On March 19, 2014 at 02:53, Ernie Gilman said...
We haven't hooked it up yet. It's hard to believe the load of work involved in this move; it's a client radically downsizing their home and even without all the stuff that will be in the estate sale, it's been hard just to walk around.
Tomorrow we connect the sound bar. It's got two major drawbacks, that are maybe drawbacks only in our situation.
1. The 23 conductor cable has uncovered color-coded wires for about the first three inches. So... you use the wall mount, which places the bar less than 1/8" off the wall, and the wires have to be exposed. What an UGLY detail on an otherwise really good-looking bar! If I'm supposed to set it on the credenza under the TV, well, then you wouldn't see the wire. But I don't see choosing on purpose to put the bar down against a horizontal surface, in effect creating a horn.
2.The Sony TV it's being used with is about 4" deep and the accessory mounting kit that I bought for it can hang the bar from the TV, but only with the front of the bar 3" back from the front of the TV! Here's a case where a thicker bar would be better. A bar of thickness similar to the TV, mounted easily where the rear of the TV and the rear of the bar are in the same plane, will look and sound better in front where it matters.
I'll let you know how it sounds.
We did a project this summer that consisted of installing 8 zones of Sonos with in-ceiling/in-wall speakers. Retrofit, all wires had to be run. Plus a home theater and 4 tv hangs. Despite the conversations to have us run everything first, we show up on day one and the movers were there. An army of them. Plus a painter. Plus a "handyman" crew. They were there the entire week. She didn't just downsize, she moved 3 houses worth of stuff, 2 apartments, and 2 storage bins into that one house, which was only 2500 sq ft roughly. Was a bloodbath.
