HT for college house

[redrider13 10+ year member]

Basically I'm looking into building a set of party speakers for a house. I'm not quite sure what all I'm gonna need in this system but obviously it needs to be loud. I also want to be able to actually hear the music when its loud too. I'm not sure how easy/hard this is to achieve seeing as I really only got into car audio. It would be nice to have an ipod hookup (just a 3.5mm jack will do) and/or just a cd changer. Since this will be for parties, I don't want to drop a ton of money into it too. I feel as if I'm asking too much. I'll be heading home over fall break and christmas break so I expect to get most all of my work done over those two breaks. Let me know what I'm getting into. I dropped over a grand on CA stuff but I'm not looking to spend that much on HA. I am willing to do it myself, I built my car system by reading online and then doing it so I'm not scared to build my own stuff.

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[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

ygpm

 

[redrider13 10+ year member]

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[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

How much room do you have?

 

[redrider13 10+ year member]

I dont know, it kinda depends. I don't want some huge layout, I was thinking along the lines of either 2 towers, or 2 towers and a sub.

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

http://www.cerwin-vega.com/CLS.php

Not greatest but get loud easy. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/partytime.gif.c93957d22b3fb208098e423485fd0404.gifarty:

If you got moniez, get some Klipsch. Loud muthas. Sound great too.

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

Look for a thread I made called BBBIB's. If you have the room they are some loud mothers.

 

[Jared530 10+ year member]

http://www.cerwin-vega.com/CLS.php
Not greatest but get loud easy. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/partytime.gif.c93957d22b3fb208098e423485fd0404.gifarty:

If you got moniez, get some Klipsch. Loud muthas. Sound great too.

Those CLS-215 are only 500 per tower. what would you use to power those?

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

That's 500W Peak not RMS. Besides, they are $$$$$ but if you just want something loud, they wouldn't disappoint. I don't know the ohm load for each speaker so you might have to email Cerwin and ask since you can bi-amp them if you needed but doubt you would need to.

But for the money you would pay for those, you could get some Klipsch that would dominate them (in SQ category...they wouldn't be as loud but Klipsch get f'n loud watt for watt compared to tons of other speakers).

If you stick with the PA/DJ style system, this could be a great start: http://www.idjnow.com/StoreModules/ProductDetails.aspx/PID=SP3600--BranchID=--DepartmentID=347--SubDeptID=Speaker%20Packages--CategoryID=--DeID=0

Just need a sub and receiver/dvd player.

 

[Tiiimay 10+ year member]

those things are beasts. Home audio seems to end up so much more expensive than car.

 

[CougarGuy 10+ year member]

your gonna laugh but i really really recommend you hear the logitech z5500 system. THX certified for under 300 bucks and it is way too loud. i used to have raves in my basement lmao.