Other Home Theater Additions

 I have been busy like normal with the holidays and all but I have made a few more changes to my home theater in the last few months and just haven't had a chance to post about it. 

I have added Vinyl back to my listening and I have went full in with Atmos and added a couple speakers attached to my ceiling. 

I wanted to go a bit above a basic turntable to start with but, also not too expensive. Somewhere in the middle so that I could get the full experience while yet not going so cheap that I was disappointed with the results. I ended up going with a Fluance RT81, overall it had good reviews and features for the price point and overall I have been extremely happy with it. Though my entertainment center is full so my girlfriend had an old stereo shelf I felt I could use to house it. Not ideal but as I have mentioned in the past my room is not ideal so it works for now. 


https://www.whathifi.com/fluance/rt81/review

https://theaudiophileman.com/rt81-turntable-review-fluance/



The other change I made was to fully go "Atmos" by buying some SVS Prime Elevation speakers. I originally placed them behind my couch on stands where my older Polk T15s were and they definitely sounded good, but I wanted to get them where they should be up high. Where my fireplace is and the shape of the room makes things difficult so I just went with the screw it let's put them on the roof. 

So I went and put some anchors in the roof and hung them up, re-ran audessey and overall I think it works. I wish in a way I had gone with an AVR that could support more channels but in this room, I really don't need it. It is just the geek in me. 



Anyway a short update on items I had been working on and updating. I really didn't want to put any kind of permanent holes in the ceiling etc, and I need to get a longer RCA cable at some point for the record player, but otherwise that's it. 


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