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where do you live?if someone on the board is close by im sure you could get some help from them.especially if they have a chance to hear the 600

Kid, as the other replies have indicated, relax; you've got excellent equipment and it'll sound significantly better than your old setup. However, it's complicated enough that you can't just plug it in and get the best results. Study the instructions, especially the ones for calibrating speaker levels and distances. Your RX-Z1 is a fine receiver and you certainly don't need to replace it, but one feature that it doesn't have is automatic calibration, which can do the job simply and accurately. So, you'll have to calibrate manually and do it by ear unless you get a sound level meter, which probably will be a little more accurate than your ears. You already have everything you need for great sound(including the speaker wire)so set it up right, play good material, and enjoy.

>>where do you live?if someone on the board is close by im sure you could get some help from them.especially if they have a chance to hear the 600

And many of us can bring an Avia disk and SPL meter with us

There is also a chance that some people expect miracles happening once they connect their new Home Theater. I would strongly suggest in that case, apart from calibrating the system and making sure everything is connected right, they go to some higher end HT store to listen, to compare. An HT cannot be a miracle, can only be a system comparable to some of the best setups in a high end store.

i live in bay area, california...if anybody wants to take a peek they are welcome.......just pm me.....last night i did try some of the suggestions....and there was some improvement...i also read the receiver manual and it has 4 ohms options....so the main fronts are running at 4 ohms.....watched the helicopter scene from matrix and the morpheue and neal match up......somewhat pleased but not entirely

i have set the main speakers to small...center to large....and whats the crossing over ?????? how do you do that .....thanks

It will take awhile for you to get comfortable with all the different settings and everything that is involved with setting up a high end system. It took me almost 2 months (not trying to scare you, just not home a lot) before I finally got it where it sounds great.

Learn the difference between small and large settings as well as the crossover settings and it'll sound sweet. I still play with different settings from time to time just to hear the differences.

I'd set all the speakers to small with the crossover at 80Hz. That is a good setting for movies. Experiment with the settings if you'd like as Shag suggests, but for starters go with that.

the 4ohm vs. 8ohm setting on your reciever shouldn't make any difference to the sound, it just limits the current so that your amp doesn't get to hot. You'll actually get more power in the 8 ohm setting but play it safe and make sure it doesn't get too hot.

We've got a guy we use in the Bay Area.

Peter the Fixer.

Ply him with good beer, and nobody gets hurt. Except maybe the neighbors.

how do i get hold of him ?