Well have finally brought the stereo that I have been drooling over ever since I first saw it (well not the exact one I got the newer model with more power ) It is the Sony MUTEKI - HTIB (STRK1600 & SSCRP1600) HTDDW1600 6.2 (upgradeable to 6.4 ) home theatre system.

It is freaking huge (it came in two box's, that combined weighed 80kg's, that more than I weigh ) I got this monster from JB HI-FI for $980 (their catalogue had it at crossed out at $1191 saying ask for a deal, I knew this could be had off the net for less than a grand delivered to my door so I offered them $950 which the sales man replied was bellow what they could do at $985 to which I replied I could get it to my door for around $980 and the deal was done). I was then upsold with an extra 2yrs of warranty for $99 which I took (maybe pointless but I thought I might as well). Getting this thing home was very fortunate that my old man had taken his Chrysler Grand Voyager (a people mover for those who don't know) with the back seats taken out as he uses it as a work van. The two box's fitted in the back with no room to spare (they just slid in there like they were made for that space, freaky 0_0).

After getting it home then came the fun part of unpacking it and assembly. I took a few pic and here they are.

The two box's, that a 30cm ruler hanging from it and a 1125ml bottle of Jim Beam down the bottom for size comparison.


The front of the receiver


The rear of the receiver


The two front speakers with ruler


The center and surround speakers (not the extra space/slot between the speakers I'm guessing a future 7.2 system is likely to be released)


All the surrounds and center out


One of the sub's


That's all I have for the moment. So far I have only installed the two subs, centre and the left and right fronts as space is limited for such a big system in my room. Once I remove my old stereo I should have enough room for two of the surrounds on the desk and when I get my new LCD TV/Monitor and a KVM I will be able to get rid of the second desk in my room and move things around a bit. Ill take a photo once everything is in its final or close enough to place.

I
Am
Highly
Impressed

f***ing nice bro!

Thats insane!

can we get a pic of a human standing next to these mothers?

Sure I'll upload them after I have finished mucking around with my car.

THATS SO AWESOME!

speaking of beast speakers i just bought the top of the line Gallien-Krueger 410RBH bass amp cab. 4x 10"



IMPEDANCE:
Available as 8 ohms or 4 ohms
POWER RATING:
800 Watts
WOOFER:
4xGK-Paragon 10B200-32 - Cast Frame, 10", 200W, 32 or 16 ohms High Presence Voice Coil
TWEETER:
GK-Paragon 5H50-8
FREQUENCY RESPONSE:
50Hz to 19kHz
SENSITIVITY:
102dB
CROSSOVER:
Horn Bi-Amp/Full Range Switch, Horn Power Limiter, L-Pad High Frequency Attenuator
CONNECTORS:
1xHorn Bi-Amp/Full Range Speakon, 1x1/4" (Full Range Only)
CONSTRUCTION:
11-Ply Poplar, Black Carpet, 16 Gauge Steel Grill, Removable Nickel Plated Castors, Custom Tooled Interlocking Corners and Dual Front Loaded Ports
WEIGHT:
96 lb
DIMENSIONS:
28"W x 23"H x 18"D

Am I correct in assuming that it is a guitar speaker? And DasBok I haven't forgotten about that pic you wanted of someone standing next to the speakers it is coming.

yea a bass guitar speaker. cept i run my double bass through it

freakin awesome man

can't wait to see it all setup

Yeah! That's crazy-big. I've never seen a bedroom or living room that needs TWO subwoofers! That's just nuts! Awesomely powerful. I bet it sounds great.

I was just about to buy this myself, but I will hold off until I hear your thoughts Merlin. I cannot find a review of this system anywhere on the Net - weird? Quick, and possibly obvious, question. I assume you can choose video and audio feed independently? So if you have you Xbox 360 running video through component, and audio through optical you can have both those selections running at once. I just hope you that when you choose say video 1 channel, it doesn't have to play whatever sound you have coming through the video 1 inputs, makes sense? Another example might be listening to a CD through your CD Player, while watching a game you are playing.

thanks for any help Merlin

I have no idea whether or not you can choose audio and video feeds independently. I just have it hooked up to my pc's sound card. I'll have a read through the manual and see if it mentions anything about this. Overall I am so far happy with this system but it is taking some getting use to, the sound is different mainly because all the speakers are off centre because of space limitations (it is a big speaker package) and previously I was using a hi-fi system with the speakers all on my desk

Once I can set them up better with less blocking the sound it will sound better (I would recommend these speakers for a living room/home theatre room with more space to deploy the speakers and to better enjoy there sound in a bigger space).

yum

Slight update. I got my TDM-IP1 iPod dock yesterday (it came free with the system but normally retails for over one hundred dollars). Reading an online review it seems its not worth the money (but seeing as I got mine for free) as it rather limited in its capabilities and the price you pay for it (should I really be complaining about the price of the dock when I payed over $1000 for a home theatre system?) doesn't justify it compared to similar products which can do more. Further more I don't own an ipod (or any mp3 played for that matter) but I am wondering if this is one more reason to get an ipod (my car stereo is also ipod capable with the correct cord which is about $130).

hmmm yes.. money..

yea i got a cable in my car that plugs into my ipod to charge it and it lets me control the ipod from my head unit

its kickass

Fark. My car CD player just has a 3.5mm in jack, which handles any MP3 player, and the cable came for free ok so it doesn't CONTROL the iPod, but that's ok. My solution costs a billion times less.

My CD player will stream music from a Bluetooth enabled MP3 player though.. pimp.

does mine do that?

Bluetooth, no. But I think it's got an aux port on it. Not that it really matters.. both our units play MP3 cds. I can keep enough music to keep me going for a while on maybe.... 3 cds?

i got an iPod charger which goes into the cigarrette lighter.. and then from there, a 3.5mm connection to a tape adapter.. its an ok setup i guess..

i also have a little cradle for the dashboard.. but i glued it on upside down so it falls out all the time.

If I buy another adapter I can also do the same as well as have a blue tooth enabled phone run through it as well.