Side by Side Comparison of: RCA vs VideoSecu vs AmazonBasics

We love the surround sound.purchased last yr for Christmas,works great,no problems so far.

Im going to try to write the best review possible.First of all it has 3 HDMI inputs and 1 HDMI output as specified in the description. It also has two standard Red & white AV inputs on the back, and an additional one called the "game" input in the front it also has a standard 3.5 millimeter line in & it also has a headphone jack on the front.In my opinion it does meet the clarity and volume of a thousand watt sound system.In addition it also features various volume controls. you can control the max volume, the sub volume, and in the settings you can make certain speakers louder than others based off of your preference.It also has a few preset equalizer settings, and 3 dolby digital settings.The bang for your buck is tremendous and I highly recommend it.YES IT WORKS WITH AN XBOX ONE/PS4 :)

I'm giving this a 5 star because of the value, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. If you are a perfectionist, you won't like it. If you are an audiophile, you wont like it. I was scared at the prospect that something at a great price point could sound good, but it does and it also has the HDMI switching I needed. I am a father of 2, and this unit is installed in our bonus room where kids can watch cartoons, or when they are asleep, I can fire up xbox or ps3 with Call of Duty, etc. I don't expect this unit to last forever (nothing is perfect), but worth the risk.Here is a list of the pro's/cons:Pros:-inexpensive, inexpensive, inexpensive!!-surround is really good-switches hdmi from 3 sources, including the audio. (no need for optical or digicoax)-sounds really good for a tiny system-easily mounted surround speakers (nail/screw hanging)-basic speaker wire inserts at rear, cut and plug in as needed (not proprietary plugs)-once you get it dialed, all you do is switch inputs... no further fussing needed.-Take your time installing, and things will be all good.-cheapish/basic electronic appearance, but speakers have grille cloth, which takes it up a notch.Cons: (not too many for the price point)-remote is basic, but you have to press assertively to make buttons work-some functions are not intuitive, but manageable-bass may be hard to dial in, just takes time.-slight midrange gap, but forgivable.

Very good system. Worth every penny, and it's a formidable system and it's 300 dollars cheaper than just about every other sound system that has only 2-3 speakers. I did have a problem with the fiber optics slot because it wouldn't fit, but after bending the little metal prong on the inside of the optics area and then it fit, and then it was perfect. But then even better is that I saw it has an HDMI slot that goes out to TV also so not only does the receiver work for audio but it should in theory work for sending a signal to my HDTV also from my Xbox 360 since my TV doesn't have any HDMI or Optical outputs.

I took a chance with this unit. 150$ isnt exactly high end, but RCA has been my brand of choice for years, and I needed something cheap that would get the job done. The system ended up being easy to setup (rabbit prongs for the speakers and color-coded wires and ports). Everything works great. Some problems with HDMI cutting out but swapped the cables and it worked fine. Great sound quality. I never turn it above 25 because its plenty loud. You need to measure the distance between the speakers and listening position to get the best effect. It has a "distance" button that allows you to program that. Honestly, for this setup, I'd pay up to 100$ more for it. Only thing: the sub is powerful, but not clear. I'd get a separate sub but the one that came with is more than good enough.

Why does Amazon act like this product has to be used as an HDMI switch with no way to get digital audio from the TV to the receiver?Well, I'm happy to report that it has both coax and optical digital audio inputs. My TV has coax digital audio out. I ordered a special cable which hasn't arrived yet, but went ahead and just used an ordinary rca style audio cable. It worked! Dolby Digital 5.1 from my TV's tuner or from anything plugged into my TV.So, you don't have to use this as an HDMI switch. No need to run HDMI or analogue cables to or from the receiver at all. I run HDMI into my TV from my computer, and digital audio out from the TV to this receiver. This way, I get digital sound both from the TV's built in tuner, and from appropriate sources from my computer. My TV has two more HDMI inputs, so I won't have any trouble hooking up future devices to my TV. The only reason to use the HDMI switching and analogue inputs on the receiver would be if you simply don't have enough HDMI inputs or digital out on your TV.When I first plugged in the coax digital audio and chose TV from the receiver's sources, it was set to TV :ANALOGUE. I ended up checking the manual to learn that I need to press the setup button on the remote and then use left-right to navigate to what I'm trying to change and up-down to make the change. After switching the audio from analogue to coax, when I select TV, the face of the receiver says TV :CORN, or is it TV iCORx, or maybe TV :CORK? Well, anyway, I know it's supposed to say TV :COAX.Only issue with the SPDIF coax digital audio from my TV is that when first starting an audio source or even after just pausing it, there's a second or two of silence forcing me to jump back a second or two (if possible) to hear everything. I don't know if the delay is caused by my TV encoding the audio or the receiver decoding it, or both. Not a big deal for me though considering the low price of both my TV and this home theater system.In fact, I've never been happier with a purchase before. What matters most is the sound and in my small room (only 10 feet from wall hanging TV/speakers to rear wall) using the 5.1 digital audio, it sounds fantastic with good well balanced range without any humming or hissing. The wires attached to each speaker were much longer than I needed. There are 4 levels of subwoofer volume available and I'm happiest with the 2nd lowest setting which provides solid and balanced base that doesn't distract from the overall sound. If it was a 12" subwoofer producing sound that's felt as much as heard, then I'd go for a higher setting, but you can't expect a 12" subwoofer at this price. I love Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound. Sitting in my chair just 5 feet from both front and rear speakers, I don't notice the rear speakers much, but they definitely add to the sound. Laying in my bed with my head against the same wall the rear speakers are on, I get sound like high quality headphones but with more localized front sound. Although a completely different experience, the sound I get from both listening positions is very good and well balanced.The remote has everything you could imagine on it, which is not a good thing. After initial setup however, all I use are the bottom left source buttons to switch between radio and TV and the volume and memory radio channel buttons that are nicely placed and a good intuitive shape and size. You need good eyesight to find the buttons in the first place, but once you've found them, they're easy to use. The remote also requires more precise aim than my TV remote, but it works.I also don't know why there's no mention of the AM/FM tuner in this receiver. I didn't know I wanted a radio tuner, but now that I've got it, I listen to radio every morning instead of turning on the TV and computer. I had to read the manual to learn that you can make it setup memory radio channels - up to 30 FM and 30 AM channels. It only found 23 FM channels for me here in Kansas City, but that's 23 more than I used to listen to. There's many surround sound settings that work with the radio, but what sounds best to me is the DOLBY PL II :MUSIC which takes full advantage of 5.1 sound and I've found no reason to mess with it any further.If you want to take advantage of the digital audio output of your TV without spending more on the sound system than you did on your TV, this is the only way to go. I've never been so enthusiastic about recommending a product before.

This went together really easily. I mounted mine to the iRulu BL20 projector. Comes with a shorter set of feet used to attach to the projector which I needed. I had to order a second one since the first one came without four needed washer/nuts and the company wanted pictures of the parts I got and descriptions and it seemed like it would take forever which was way unnecessary so I just ordered a second one with the intention of returning the first one. However, I decided to keep the first one and mounted the "ceiling" part to a piece of plywood as a base and now can move the projector from the ceiling to the base and have the same adjustment capabilities for outside viewing which makes it really nice. No more stacking things on the table to get it right. Very simple and inexpensive mounting solution.

I managed mount the 4 arms on to a projector with 3 mountain holes.I have to remove one arm, inverse one arm to be able to fit in. Took a while but can be done.The center of this mountain bracket is not over the center of the mass of the projector, so I have to fasten quite some nuts to level the projector.Overall the design is OK with enough tilt options for mountain my machine.

This holds our projector from the ceiling. Hasn't loosened up yet or anything. It also gives you the option of lifting or lowering the projector a bit which is nice. No ones walked into it so it doesn't hang super low either.

This is a dynamite mount. I have secured it and taken it back down and re secured it at a new house. It has very precise movement if you take your time and move it incrementally. The mount pole also allows you to hide the cables neatly. unfortunately you have to take it most of the way apart to get new cables in there. But with most things being HDMI these days or able to be with adapter you really shouldn't need to do much moving.

Was skeptical at first as mu projectors mounting hols only allow for 3 mounts, and they are offset, not centered about the center of gravity, but the versatility of this mount is amazing. I was able to stretch the legs and line them up such that the rod is almost centered over the center of mass and pivot the legs to mount in all 3 holes. I just removed the 4th one since I don't need it. Was an very easy piece to mount, more than enough hardware for all mounting applications and my projectors look slick hanging from the ceiling in my bedroom.I highly recommend you locate the studs in the ceiling, then mock up the mounting location and test the projector to ensure you get the screen real-estate on the wall you are projecting to first, if you just throw it up, you may not be happy with the place you first mounted it. You may be thinking that I went through this pain, however, no I did not, I planned ahead. The one thing I did do was mount the rod backwards the first time and had to un screw it all and flip it around. Wasn't necessary, but I am meticulous and wanted the wires coming out of the rear of the rod to plug into the rear of the projector. It just wouldn't look right any other way.

With the low price I didn't know what to what to expect but I'm very happy that I purchased it.PROS:The variety of options mounting options you can do are incredible.There were screws for what seems like every time of projector on the planet.I find it easy to take down, i use this projector as an outdoor projector on occasion and in one section you can unscrew 2 screws and safely unmount the projector. I can then turn over the projector and unmount the whole assembly from the projector. In the matter of 2 minutes I have the projector removed from the mount. It's just as easy to get back up!CONS:None for my overhead set up with a Benq W1000+. The only debate I have is whether to keep all the extra parts or toss them.Overall,I highly recommend this mount for your projector, it is extremely adaptable and secure. I noticed others have said the paint my scratch but I have not had any issues at all and find it quite durable.

Great speaker wire. There are those who must have cables suitably sized, say, able to supply enough current to start a Caterpillar 580-B, but for my needs, 16-gauge works just fine, thank you. Don't need that silly, gold-plated frivolousness, as I don't have 'golden-ears'. I never painted my CD's with a green Marks-a-Lot (yes, people actually did that), put bricks on my SAE amplifier (you know, to dampen physical resonance...REALLY?) or find the need to spend stratospheric levels of cash for some cartridge hand-wound by some Tibetan monk. But hey, that sort of money buys a lot of prayer-wheels...I've even used old 'zip-cord' as a stand in for the 'properly-labelled' stuff, but I like not to have to solder stray runs of speaker wire together to make a longer run. Besides, for the money, this value cannot be beat (beaten, for all you 'grammar-nazi's out there). I'm happy: they supply oodles of current from my modestly powered Onkyo receiver (old-school, stereo, even, complete with phono inputs) and my 30+year old speakers. I'll hazard a guess you'll be happy with this item. Fear not, and put your starting-cables away...

Very good basic speaker wire. Why pay the high price for other wire when this will do everything you need it to do? The shielding is suitable and protects well against interference. The wire is labeled well which provides an easy method for identifying the positive and negative wires. Overall, I think this is a great buy any moderate-level sound system. Those who wish to have completely flawless sound applications may wish to purchase some heavier gauge wire with thicker insulation, but this works well for me!

While I'm sure there are audiophiles who'll quibble, I think this stuff is awesome. It's got enough (but not too much) insulation to make me feel comfortable pulling it through walls. I got this to run through the wall and outside to connect some speakers to the Sony 100w amp we use with our AppleTV so we can play music out on the porch. The wire's nice and thick, easy to work with, and the spool's not ridiculously large. Other than that, the price is right.

It's amazing what people are saying! This is your normal run of the mill speaker wire! It works great. You wouldn't use it for a super crazy high output amp, you would buy a thicker gauge. For your home stereo and about 99% of the other use cases, this wire is just fine.There is a previous review that shows the mathematics behind it.

Easy to use. There is a white stripe on one side that is clearly visible to verify polarity. The insulation is thick enough to stand up to people walking on it if it's under a carpet but easy to strip. Unlike some other wire I've used, I didn't have to squeeze the heck out of the pliers and end up cutting right through the wire when trying to strip off insulation.My speakers and amplifiers all have quick-connect fittings, and it is very easy to get the wire into the little hole in the clamp. This wire is about 4 times as thick as the wire my components came with, and it really sounds fantastic!! I would definitely recommend this gauge wire for audio.

I'm a home audio enthusiast, not a recording studio engineer. I re-wired outdoor speakers (wire running through conduit) and used this product with very good results. My longest run is about 25'. Yes, it is copper clad aluminum, but I hesitate to spend top dollar for the more pure copper product. I know that the sound travels on the outside surface of the conductors, and this is why speaker wire is stranded and not solid core. The Amazon Basics 16-ga speaker wire is copper cladding on aluminum, which suits my purpose very well. It has a white tracer in one conductor, speeding up connections and improving accuracy. The insulation is easily removed with wire strippers. It pulls through flexible conduit using a fishing tape without undue headache.

Yes RCA is a make you can buy at a local dollar store , and some of us may expect a 1000 watt system to sound like a ghetto car stereo however bang for the buck this dose sound better then my Bose computer speakers .

Okay I've had this system for over a year & here are my thoughts on it. The remote is very, well lets just say it sucks. No range at all, why only 4 stars. Hooking it up is very simple, the wires are color coded so it can not be any easier. Once you get it hooked up & speakers placed where you want them adjust the volume on each speaker. Stand in front of the receiver press the Level button & you will see FL 00, CT 00, FR 00, etc.. (All of them are on 00) use the UP button to adjust. This will allow you to adjust each speaker to your liking. It has been a very solid system for movies & such. The factory speakers combined use no where near 1000 watts. So if you really want to wake the neighbors get you a 10" woofer in a box (I did it plan on testing 2) wire it in with the factory woofer. Press the Subwoofer button (3 times) on the remote to SWR-PWRF. Then turn it up. :) Hope my review has helped.

I gave had this system for about a year now and just raised my 3 star rating to 4. Not bad for the price. To solve the fan noise others have commented on only takes about 15-20 mins depending if you are tech savvy. I removed the top (only 7 screws) to find the very small 12v dc fan setup poorly. I took a pair of small wire cutters and cut out the vent where the fan blows through(silver back next to where the wires connect). I now have the fan mounted on the back side( using the same screws the fan was originally mounted with)sucking the warm air out instead of blowing. The blowing is what causes a slight hum while the unit runs. I also cut all the wires and stripped them back to the copper wire for a better connection. So far I have no intermediate sound interference. All electronics have fans and make noise, this makes the unit much more tolerable for the price. Just a slight mod and all is good. Works great for Ps4 through the optical input. Be sure you are set to linear pcm not bitstream in audio settings!! This will prevent noise cut outs. Enjoy it's a savvy little system with a solid bass.

I have had an Samsung (don't remember the model) that was functionally equivalent to this one with the exception of no smart apps built into this RCA. (Which I never used any way, being a a fan of WMC). After a year or so the Samsung started randomly switching inputs every few minutes. The Samsung was out of the 1 year warranty and a local Samsung repair shop estimated repair at approximately $ 150. I decided to try this RCA unit in spite of not being a RCA fan. To my surprise this unit worked perfectly without in system changes as it had 3 HDMI inputs (Samsung had 2). Amazingly after setup using the same speaker wires as the Samsung the sound was louder, baser, clearer and the Dolby 5.1 Surround separation was far superior to the much more expensive Samsung. System has been in place for a couple of weeks now and unless it turns out to not be realizable over time, it was a much better investment and have the Samsung repaired,. I can't believe I'm doing this for an RCA product, this this unit it great.

I received my first system and no matter what input I selected, all I was able to hear through the system was popping. I know it was not my sources or cables, because the sound coming out of the TV was flawless when passed through the system.Support from RCA was only via email and takes days for a response. I called Amazon support and ended up returning this for an exchange.The replacement unit worked perfectly out of the box with no audio issues. Installation was a breeze and it handled all my inputs perfectly.I only have one issue with this unit - the cables to the speakers are too short - not the rear/surround speakers, though, those were fine and had plenty of length to get around the room - the cables for the front and subwoofer speakers were too short and I had to solder extra lengths of cables to these three speaker wires.

This product includes a surround sound system and an HDMI receiver in this price range. No bad at all. The sound quality is OK, but this is a budget system so don't expect wonders. I bought this for my teenage cousin's room which is a fairly small room and she didn't really need a surround sound but insisted on it. I got this because the price was in the affordable range and it also solved the problem of wiring multiple sources to the TV (since it has an HDMI switch/ receiver built in). The wires are 24 gauge wires and the length for two surround speakers (also incorrectly known as rear speakers) is about 25 feet, while the length for the center, right, left speakers and the sub-woofer is about 9 feet. The wires are color coded and soldered on the speakers.I ran short on four of the six wires so I bought Rca 50 feet 24-Gauge Speaker Wire and extended the wires by soldering them together. It works fine after the final setup. You can extend the wires as long as there is a strong connection between them, soldering is not necessary (twisting them together and taping over them will work as well).This unit also comes with built in radio receiver (which requires supplied antenna) and has red and white RCA jacks along with a mini stereo jack (3.5 mm, same one used it most smart phones and mp3 players) in the front. I have no use for the RCA or the radio but I have connected the mini stereo to EDUP EP-B3502 Wireless Car Bluetooth Music Receiver Stereo Output A2DP For Phone Ipod 3.5mm for wireless music streaming. The rear connectors are (3X) HDMI in, (1X) HDMI out, (2X) audio RCA in (red and white), (1X) digital coax in (orange), (1X) digital optical in. and the connectors for the AM/FM antenna. The power cord is attached to the box and is about 6 foot long.The labels for each HDMI channel on the LCD are pre-programmed so they cannot be changed (my cousin's setup says DVD HD 3 when it's actually connected to a computer), but it's not something I would fuss over. Over all it's a fairly decent system when you factor in the inclusion for the HDMI receiver. I have not seen any other system on the market that includes HDMI receiver in this price range. May be there is one, but this one is good enough for a budget system.

Great range of connections to fit a lot of projectors. I took off one star due to my particular set up. Most of the connecting mounts on my projector are on one side. Once I inverted the projector, I noticed there is a lack of option to level out my projector due to the unbalanced weight on one end. I should be able to rig up something and it is a very minor issue but it is noticeable on my screen.

Works well with my cheapo LED projector; it had a bit of a non-standard mount pattern but I was able to switch around the various brackets to get it to fit without any actual modification. The pole it comes with is nice, but isn't long enough for my application - I needed almost four feet; I have a 12' vaulted ceiling and the projector only has so much keystone adjustment, not to mention it made it easy for me to reach up and push buttons on the projector that way. I wound up buying a piece of composite trim (1"x2") from the local home center and cut it to length, then used screws to attach the mount to it on both ends. Works like a charm!

I ordered this, as suggested by Amazon's "usually ordered with" feature when purchasing the Optoma HD141x. Unfortunately the screws included with this bracket aren't long enough to actually mount the bracket to the projector. The screw heads are small enough that the bracket from the projector fits right over, so it won't hold. However, when you use the included washers, the screws aren't long enough to engage the threads. I drove to Home Depot and spent $0.75 for slightly longer screws and as it turns out the heads were large enough on these that I didn't need the washers though they should be used anyway.One of the mounting brackets had to be reversed to fit. The Optoma HD141x had 3 mount holes. This bracket is flexible and configurable enough to make it work but there are no instructions indicating that this might need to be done however anyone installing this type of equipment "should" be able to figure this out.Also, if the joist you are mounting this bracket to runs across the room (horizontal to display surface) and not vertical (perpendicular to the display surface) then this bracket doesn't easily mate up to the Optoma HD141x. I had to rotate the mount to be able to adjust as per the directions. No instructions were included for this situation.In one sense the above, other than the mounting screws being too short, is a major plus for this product to be able to accommodate such a wide variety of projectors and being able to be configurable enough to allow for a variety of inflexible room setups I just feel there should just be a little more documentation to show people what how to account for this. Telling someone that you should make "this change" when "this situation" applies would reduce any additional frustration.The ONLY reason this product gets a 4-star is for the screw situation and wishing for a few more options being detailed in the documentation. Other than that this is an excellent mount.I did not use the extension arm(s) but the documentation covered installation in both cases.

This mount works great for my BenQ HT1085ST. My only issue is that it holds the projector about 6 inches from the ceiling. This isn't an issue for most people as 6 inches is not that far. However, I have a 140 inch screen so I need the projector to be closer to the ceiling. I will not deduct a star for this as it's properly described. However, it does tend to creep a tiny bit and I've had to tighten the screws a few times. However, I would buy it again for an application that doesn't require a low profile.

This a nice mount. I am using it with my Optoma HD141X which has 3 mounting holes. As seen in the product photo, there are 4 arms but removing one arm was quite easy. As other reviewers have noted, it is a universal mount so you have to figure out the best way to arrange the legs. For my particular projector, I had to reverse one of the arms so it could fit right. (Not being mechanically minded, I was very proud of myself that I figured that out and then I read that many other people have done that, too. Proud, yes - original, no.). In the end, it is obvious that the mount is not made for my projector. But, it works and when the lights go down, no one really notices.The instructions did show how to configure the base if you are only using 3 arms instead of 4. However, the base did not match up with what the instructions showed. It wasn't a big deal as I could swivel the arms around as I needed. But I thought I would mention it in case someone gets confused like I did.While all the screws and hardware are included, the screws to go into the projector itself were not long enough. So, I did have to make a trip down to the local hardware store to pick up the 3 screws that I needed to attach the arms to the projector itself. While not a terribly big deal, I did knock off 1 star.Once mounted into the ceiling, it is a solid installation. I am quite happy with it. It doesn't look as nice as it could if it were a mount made specifically for the projector itself, but for the price (very good!) and the solidness of the installation, I would buy it again.

I ordered this for my Viewsonic projector on the hopes that it would work. I read a few negative reviews which stated the mount absolutely would not work for the Viewsonic projectors. The people who wrote those reviews must be the same kids in kindergarden who could not figure out how to stack blocks. I mean seriously, try thinking outside the box for half a second. I gave this mount four stars four two reasons;1. The instructions do not show anything for a three hole mount like the Viewsonic projectors use. It only shows the four hole mount option.2. The directions are rather vague regarding the hardware. A little unclear, again, with some thought, the correct parts are able to be identified.For anybody thinking about purchasing this mount for a Viewsonic, just remember you will have to completely disassemble the quad mount. Turn some of the mounts backwards, and remove one of the arms. The mount comes with two short mounts and four long mounts. It took me about fifteen minutes to figure out how to set up the mount. And that was with four screaming children in the house.Bottom line, this mount is secure and well worth the 25.00 dollars. It is fully adjustable and comes with all the hardware you need. It even comes with the allen (hex) wrenches. All you need is a drill and a screwdriver.

This cable works fine but I have one criticism - and so only four stars.There is no marking on the cable to show which wire is which and that makes it harder to determine speaker polarity. That is, you want the wire connected to red on the amplifier to connect to red on the speaker, and black [or white] to black [or white]. Electric wire like this has ribbing along one side (the neutral one) so you can make sure your lamp is wired up safely. But with this speaker wire you have to follow it all-the-way-along-the-length-of-the-cable.I guess that's why it's "AmazonBasics". Add some ribbing and this would be much easier to work with. But once installed it works fine.

This is not real copper, but it does not claim to be. With that out of the way, this is actually pretty decent cable. It's very flexible and easy to work with. If you are fine with the limitations of copper-clad aluminum (because you're not running that long of a stretch, or you are over-sizing conductors to start with, or you just don't want to pay for 100% copper) then this is actually pretty nice to work with. The insulation is soft and flexible and the cord has a very easy to see black line for the negative conductor. If this were pure OFC copper, it would probably be one of my favorite brands.

I purchased this cable to help wire up my surround sound system in my basement.The cable works great and was cheaper than alternatives on Amazon, or cables coming from my previous regular seller Monoprice. I would certainly purchase the cable again as it works great and was easy to run. I am not audiophile but I didnt appear to lose any sound quality with this affordable cable versus more expensive options out there.Finally the packaging is simple and easy to open. Its the simple things sometimes that take a product from good to great. Being able to get to the product without needing a blow torch is in my mind a big plus!

Good speaker wire at a very good price. Sound quality and packaging is good. The price is super reasonable and I'd buy it again if I find myself needing speaker wire again.The reason I give it 4 Stars is because the markings to identify which wire is which is unusually VERY light. I was daisy chaining speakers together and needed to ensure that the correct wires were going to positive and negative. Both strands of wires are exactly the same but there is a faint white line down one of them. The white line is almost transparent and I need a flashlight to see it. Even with the light it was almost indiscernible. They should definitely look into marking one of the wires more prominently.

It's speaker wire. How can one write a glowing review on speaker wire? I will give it a try.This came will packaged and looked nice. The package designers did a superb job in designing the package. The wire is very smooth with a clearly marked negative wire. The insulation is nice and think and insulates very well. When solder is applied it takes it well and it appears the copper wire used in this is very high quality copper.The sound transmission is excellent unlike other copper wire that has noticeably reduced clarity in the high range.This wire is also much better than those spools of wire that are only 50 feet because this has 100 feet. That makes it twice as good as the 50 foot wire and 4 times better than the 25 foot spools.

This is exactly what it is supposed to be-- low cost, consumer grade speaker wire.We use this to connect our 15-year-old consumer-grade amplifier to our old consumer-grade speakers, to play music and movie sound-tracks streamed over the internet at whatever bit-rate our connection happens to support at the moment. The speakers are placed on whatever flat surface we can find, in whatever arrangement gives us some semblance of stereo and "surround", in a living room where "acoustics" take a back seat to "not having things fall on our heads."The impedance-matching to the speakers, the cable's power loss, the frequency response, are all 2nd-order optimizations where we are just looking for the first approximation. We just want durable cable that will not break easily if pulled or set-upon, that will not short the amplifier with ordinary use, and whose performance is no worse than the other aspects of our setup. We understand the difference between copper and copper-clad aluminum, and the impact of wire gague on signal fidelity. We have our own multi-meters, oscilliscopes and RMS power meters, and we just don't care.If you're an audiophile, odds are you are not even sniffing the Amazon Basics, much less reading this review. You are not researching whether this cable will let you hear the timpanist's heartbeat during the 2nd movement of Beethoven's 9th, even though audiophiles claim it can be done. You are too busy putting anti-reflective coating the edges of your CDs and putting your amplifiers on tiny little conical feet. You buy artisan crafted, hand-pulled pure copper cable extracted from sustainable mines by free-range miners, encased in fair-trade gold-foil RF shielding and wrapped with organic cotton-fiber sheath dyed in native traditional patterns.This cable is not excellent, but it is all the cable we need.

When I first bought this I loved everything about it, the sound quality, small form factor, range of remote different options for inputs, all of that. But now after a couple of months the fan makes a horrible whining at rattling noise and basically ruins the product. The noise is now so loud that I have to turn the sound level up way past where I would like it to be and it gets very annoying very quickly. It rattles into my tv stand and I even hear it on the glass on that now. Very upset with the build quality of this product. Would return for my money back if it was soon enough

Easy install, but probably not for bigger spaces.. We have a LARGE living room with a vaulted ceiling and the sound reproduction isn't stellar. I do like the control buttons on the main unit, you don't have to scroll from tv to blue ray to your gaming device, one dedicated button on the front will switch it up for you, meaning you don't have to search for the remote. Tip: you are going to want extra speaker wire, the subwoofer has a VERY short line.

I bought this for a short term fix in my living room. Eventually it will make it into my bedroom where I do not need a very powerful system. So I was trying to save some coin by getting this for now.Overall it is great for the price I paid. I purchased a refurbished edition for $78 I think it was. For that price, it was an absolute steal. And honestly, the system looks as though it was never used.It runs great, but the sound is sorta "meh" for me. Now for $78 I know you get what you pay for. It will do great in my small bedroom when it gets moved, and right now I am not looking to spend $700 on a new Bose unit. For someone on a budget, especially around the holidays, this is a great buy.However, if I paid the original asking price of $159.99 for a new system...Well I would be vastly disappointed. It just doesn't have the clarity I would want for my living room home theater system. For $78 though, a great purchase for a small bedroom or den.

GREAT sound for movies. The radio has the quality of a 1960's era transistor radio though. I'm not sure whether it's a near faulty set up arrangement on my part though or if it's the unit that I sometimes have a difficult time getting what I want to come on to work right the first time with the press of a button. For what I paid for this; I can't complain I guess. I suppose I got a pretty good deal. It came professionally packaged, my particular unit WAS refurbished, so I knew what I was getting myself into for the most part when I purchased it. I guess I could give it 3.5 stars, maybe 3.75, but NOT 4. HAD I PURCHASED this NOT refurbished, and the radio sounded better and everything worked the way I expected it to work upon the press of a button, I might give it 5 stars based on the sound quality put out for watching movies. GREAT, great surround sound for those. Relatively easy to adjust distance parameters and so forth. I like RCA stuff alright. They've been around a long time. You have to give them SOME credit.

I bought this because of the price and that it has three HDMI in ports and one out port plus various other connections. I read through a lot of the reviews and most people simply hated or said it was worth the price. One review stood out to me about some of the issues so I have been monitoring it closely.It seems, after a couple hours of use, the sound will occasionally cut out for a couple seconds at a time. I'm not sure if the next issue only happened to me, but there are three HDMI settings. HDMI 1, 2 and 3 and HDMI 1,2 and 3 on the back to plug into. They didn't match up. In order to switch to what I have plugged into HDMI 1, I have to press HDMI 2. Not a big deal, but still worth knowing. The only other issue I have discovered is occasionally, when I turn the surround sound system on first before anything else, the component I go to use doesn't transmit. It seems to be remedied simply by turning off the surround sound and turning it back on once everything else is powered up.Bottom line is this, if you have the extra money to spend, do it and get higher end hardware, however, if you are looking to save as much as possible, this really isn't a bad deal even after considering the issues.

I purchased this and installed it 3 days ago, here are my impressions.1. Fairly easy to install. Color coded wires, plenty of length for speakers.2. Setup is a bit of a chore. The readout is an 8 segment LED display from the 80's. You hit "setup" on the remote, and the readout screen says "dimmero" I thought it was in the wrong language for a while, until I realized that is "Dimmer: 0". You can set up the brightness of the readout, and the volume of the 6 speakers. That seems to be all of the setup options. I can't find any option to setup the equalization, aside from 5 presets (pop, classical, movie etc...) They all sound about the same.3. Sound quality is pretty good to my ears, except it's really heavy on the low end. Even with the sub unplugged it sounds muddy and bassy. I feel like the clarity of the speakers is fine, if only there was an option to adjust the equalizer I think it would sound fantastic.4. Extra features: It's supposed to have features like "night" mode, where it enhances the dialogue while dampening the explosions etc... There's a button for it, and several other features on the remote, but they don't do anything as far as I can tell. I press them and nothing changes on the display, and the sound doesn't change noticeably.My unit also arrived missing the FM antenna cable. Not a huge deal since I don't listen to radio a lot, but still sort of an annoyance.I'm glad I bought it, since it's better than my TV speakers and I'm satisfied with the price. There are a lot of little issues with it that seem like pretty obvious misses. I noticed several home theater systems in this price range when I was shopping, and next time I'll go with another brand.

If your vaulted ceiling happens to slope in the wrong direction, you cannot aim the projector... it points the wrong way and you cannot change it because it's not a square tube, it's rectangle. other than that it seems fairly well built.

Beware if you are purchasing this bundled with Optoma HD141x (Amazon suggests this is most often purchased together). This mounting bracket "can" be made to work, but be prepared for a less than optimal install. First, the product itself is OK. Instructions are spartan and nearly impossible to interpret - as is much of the obscurely-labeled gear that comes out of China.To make this work with the HD141x projector:1. Flip projector over to bottom, and align projector mounting bracket with the "extra hole" in bracket holding legs aligned to front of projector2. Loosen all adjustment screws with supplied allen wrench and slide mounting legs inward to fit over projector's two rear mounting holes3. You'll need to find longer 4mm screws to mount to projector - those supplied will not engage threads passing through washer and bracket. I found some at local Menards hardware store - 4mm x 3/4" approx4. Remove one of the front mounting feet (note this projector has only 3 mounting holes - not 4 like this bracket is configured) - Looking down with projector lens facing away from you, remove the leg to the right.5. Because this bracket is too large to fit over the Optoma HD141x 3rd mounting screw thread, you'll need to remove the projectors front rubber height adjustment screw (near front edge), and use that to secure the third leg of mounting bracket. Use a washer or two to ensure it holds snugly.Once you are done it should hold your projector security. The only negative is that it will be slightly off of the projector's center of gravity, so will need to be carefully adjusted and secured once hanging in place.

Well, this was suggested by someone else that had the Optoma 131Xe. I had read that all these "universal style" mounts had to be modified or augmented a little to get it to work with the 131Xe. It took me 20 minutes to figure out how to align the three holes. I would like to think that I am fairly intelligent but this thing had me scratching my head for a bit. I ended up taking out the adjustment arms and flipping them around and cutting one of the arms a little so I could center it up a little better. I don't really like how the arms are tightened on the projector but that's only partially because of this mount. I did like the hook where you could get the mounting done on the ceiling first and then take your time on the floor with the other part. The adjustment was a pain in the butt. It's one of those deals where you just try to get it as close as you can, tighten it all up and then nudge it till it's right. Not sure if this is gonna stay where I adjusted it because the weight of the projector is not fully centered. It can adjust many different ways which is neat but it feels like it is barely getting the job done. The adjustment seems a little sloppy but as long as it stays, I'll be happy.

I purchased the ViewSonic PJD7820HD projector on Amazon. This was recommended for bundling with this particular projector, so I decided I'll go ahead and take it. Afterall, the price was about 2/3rds that of the one ViewSonic makes specifically for its projector, plus I wasn't going to have to pay for shipping. Given the low cost, I assumed the risk of how well this universal mount would work on the projector I bought. It turns out, the ViewSonic projector uses only 3 mounting holes (you'll notice this mount is utilized for 4 holes, but it's not a problem to remove one of the arms), and they are spaced relatively close to each other. So close, in fact, that this "universal" mount could not be adjusted down far enough. It took plenty of attempts (and way too much time) to adjust for this weird positioning, and finally it was determined that I needed to take out one of the arms and put it in backwards. This looks ugly and overall tacky, but in the end I figure it won't be too noticeable. Also, I went with a flush mount after not feeling comfortable with the extension pole. It seemed that the pole was holding on to the projector using only tension as opposed to having a guard to protect against the tension loosening and the projector sliding right out and crashing onto the floor. Perhaps the tension is good enough, but I didn't want to risk it. It turns out, I liked the flush mount anyways, so in the end, I have no complaints.So overall, the question becomes how much is your time and effort worth? In hindsight, I would have ponied up the extra $20 and gone with the one designed specifically for my projector. It would have looked nicer, and would have been much easier to install. I am rating this overall as a 3 out of 5, but if I were to break up the ratings into categories, I would rate as follows:Overall: 3Price: 5Quality: 3.5Ease of installation: 2

I purchased this to go with my Optoma HD25. It was a pain in the arse to get this to work. The instructions are very limited in helping on this type of setup. I ended up getting creative on how to connect it to the optoma. Here's why...Effectively I set it up for three arms as the instructions say to do, but when you do this for the Optoma, you will find that the extension arms are FAR to long to connect all three mounting screws to the projector. What I did (this does secure unit 100% so that it doesn't move at all), but took my dumb arse 20 minutes to figure out, is simply take the s shaped connecting part out of the ends of the extension and face them into the middle of the bracket. Yes this is counter intuitive, but works. So again, for an optoma hd25 take out the fourth leg, and convert into three. then flip the mounting s legs around so the bottom of the s points into the middle of the bracket and then screw into the unit. You will need a small screwdriver as you are now going in between the little gap on the extension bar, but can be done. This however isn't the reason I gave it 3 stars and not 4 or 5.This bracket only receives 3 stars, because the adjustment aspect of this thing is super touchy. Even tightening a nut, bolt, or screw will cause this thing to go out of line. In other words to make my final adjustments correct once a screw was tightened correctly, I had to first over-adjust image on the screen, then tighten down the adjustment screws. Meaning I was guessing at first how far to the left i would have to shot the image so that once I tighten the left/right nut, it wouldn't bring the image back to the right to far.The other issue was I wish the length of the unit could be shorter then the nine or eleven inches it has to be, i.e. not either be three inches form the ceiling or eleven inches. I like being able to go from any length from 11 - 22, but what about 3-11?On the whole thought, if you can deal with the little issues of this thing, and your cheap like me, its worth a purchase, just know what your getting. It is solid, no doubt about that part, but has a few downsides since its a universal.

I'm one of those guys who like to get all the nuts and bolts and washers in the correct place. If you follow the instructions step-by-step you won't get that result because they leave things out that are on the back side of the image. It's fairly obvious they belong, but not always as clear because the diagram and numbers are written so small. My projector has three holes. This mount was able to adjust, though it wouldn't really appear to be that it's necessarily designed to. It came out a little funky looking and off-center. It works though, it looks fine and it feels sturdy. Adjustments aren't too difficult. For the price, compared with others I've seen, I'm not disappointed in the end-result. Besides the instructions, the washers can be incredibly difficult to place, assuming you want them in the correct location. You might want to use tweezers to hold the nylon washers in place during assembly. You will know what I mean when you get there. I'm rating this only three stars due to that difficulty, the poor instructions and the fact that even though it works, it doesn't go together nearly as well with three holes as it would with four.

its really difficult to rate this product because I never received it in it's stead I received a string of fairy lights which my grand daughter liked so I kept them and picked up the 16 gauge wire a my place of employment the only fail Amazon has had in there relationship with me

Amazon should of ran a dark black or red line (single) instead of white to determine the positive or negative wire tubing. The white line is very faint, so you don't see it well. Not happy with that. But, good basic wire over all. Note well - Not Oxygen free

I would give this product if there consistency amount roles.I bought 3 roles and 2 of them marked the positive wire with a white stripe, the 3rd spool marked the negative wire with a black stripe. None of the rolls marked both.Pros:Looks/feels/behaves just like my RCA branded speaker wireCons:As above, lacks consistent markings for +/-Overall:I'll buy again

Just a heads-up, this is only CCA wire, not OFC. It's not bad, specially for the price. It's better than included cables and decent enough replacement for entry-level to mid-range audio systems or home theaters. Just be informed. If you can afford $50 for the cables, there are better solutions available.

Sound is decent. Stripping the insulation off the wire seems to take more effort than I remember with other brands. Tough to distinguish between the two wires, they just use a faint white line on one wire that can be tough to see, especially in the dark behind an entertainment center as you attempt to hook up the speakers.

This is basic CCA audio cable. It also appears to be the advertised gauge. Unless you have a high end audio system I see no need in splurging on OFC cabling. I usually tin the ends of the cabling anyway so the connection points aren't a great concern. It would be recommendable to use 14 gauge wire, but I've only got a mid-range Onkyo receiver and basic speakers. When I upgrade my speaker package the cost of good 14 gauge OFC cable will be included in that purchase.

Did not last long and for people with limited income, that was disappointing.

First off, listening to music in analog or through rca plugs, each song played you miss the first three seconds of sound, The sound is okay, I have had this system one day and the TV rca transister blew, and I was forced to switch over to the vcr plug. Really you pay for the speakers and they are worth the money, but be sure to have another 4 ohm receiver on hand, because you will need one. tv picture is great, for the little bit I used it. surround sound could be better as well.

Overall, this is giving me what I expected. It's a rudimentary surround sound system for someone who isn't really an audiophile. Totally what I was looking for at the price point I was looking for.But here's the thing... Every now and then it decides to briefly stop transmitting sound. I've experienced a very brief gap in sound (up to 1 second at a time) through every device connected to this receiver (DVD, BR player, Roku) and have verified that it was not an issue with the video itself by rewinding and replaying those bits just to find out what the characters were actually saying.So I would NOT recommend this for others unless you don't mind missing pieces of the dialog while you're watching a movie or show.

Well, I am a pretty easy going person, and would usually never bother returning an item I purchased online.I am returning this it after one day of use.I am certain that in some applications, this system would be just fine, however, there were two issues that made my mind up for me:1) The sound is "Muddled". Unless you have the unit in stereo mode, there are no EQ controls.2) There is a rather loud fan in the unit, it is audible even with the system at mid volume level. This would have driven me nuts, so, back in the box it went.I guess I'll see how good Amazon is with their returns in the coming days.

I wanted to give this unit 3 stars because I'm relatively happy with it, but the reality is that the audio cuts out often enough that you rarely go a sitting without it happening. Beyond that, if you just want to be able to have surround sound and don't want to spend $200, this works. The speakers sound really awful. People in other reviews say they're not audiophiles so they can't tell, but guaranteed, the average person would found the sound quality to be lacking. If the point is to get a surround sound system at a low cost, rather than getting this, I would recommend you check your local stores or whatever amazon offers open box to get a discount on a better unit.

I ultimately had to return this item because the sensor was not reliably getting the commands from the remote. We even bought a new universal remote for this thinking the issue was with the remote but the problem persisted with the universal. It was like trying to use a remote with batteries that are nearly dead. Some button pushes worked, some didn't.Remote issues aside, I was not happy with the sound quality of this system. We spent the entire even fiddling with the settings on the system and our tv/cable but no amount of combinations sounded as good as even our last much cheaper system. The bass especially always sounded too intense or just not fitting to the image on the screen. Perhaps we could have found the right set of settings if we were not battling the remote issues but for the cost of this system(though obviously not the priciest of systems) I expected better. I should not have found a system nearly half the price of this one, as our last one was, to be superior.

I used this mount with an Optoma HD142X. I was able to use all four legs and it appeared it was going to work for me but once I had it attached to the ceiling I couldn't get it adjusted anywhere close to level. I had to improvise with other materials. I still use this mount to bear the weight of the projector, but fine tuning required a trip to the hardware store and some improvising. I'm not saying this mount is bad as it might work well for other models or manufacturers.

I have a projector that was only 3.5 lbs and even with all the bolts tightened it wouldn't hold the projector in the position that I tried to set. It also only has 2 mounting holes which if a stud isn't where you would like to mount the holder then you are stuck trying to mount it in the drywall which isn't strong enough to stabilize the projector in a position of your choosing.

This is a decent projector mount with lots of adjustments that can be made. It can swing forward and swivel to the side as well as adjust flush to the ceiling. The main issue I had is that even when everything is fully tightened, it still has some wiggle room. Aligning a projector takes a lot of time and patients in the first place and every few weeks I find it off of the screen and I need to adjust it. When people are walking around in the room above it, it bounces slightly and can move off of the screen by about an inch to either side. This may not bother some people but when you spend an hour or so aligning it perfectly to a screen and then it doesn't stay that way, it is pretty frustrating

Do not recommend for a Optoma HD141X. The supplied screws that fit the threads of the projector were too short. I should have just stopped and returned the item, but I didn't want to wait till a turn around. I went to the Ace and spent another $3 on the correct hardware. Then I noticed that the adjustable arms are too long. I spent about two hours last night and I still don't have anything mounted. I'm going to attempt to turn the tabs around, but I might end up having to cut the arms down too.Aside from it not being a good fit for my projector, the whole thing feels awkward and clumsy and the supplied hardware feels cheap. If I could do a do-over, I'd choose another product. I'll probably just end up making this one work one way or another because I don't want to wait to mount my projector.

We installed a projector 30' up in the air in our church using this bracket. In order to obtain this height, we rented a lift which needless to say was pretty expensive, but was a must for safety reasons.Spent about 45m attaching the projector to the bracket, as it's not a very straight forward process. Once attached we proceeded up to the beam where it was going to be attached; we spent another hour and a half trying to get the bracket to stay pointing in one direction. With the arm fully extended, the bracket seemed to want to lean toward one side, and not shoot straight forward. This was very frustrating... Finally, after messing with it for that long, we got it in the desired position.The next day, after returning the lift, we noticed the bracket had shifted to the right a bit. We did our best to compensate for this shift using the setting found in our high-end projector, but still it's not quite right on. Looking back, I've come to the conclusion that it's the cheap hardware used to control the bracket/arm of this mount; using sub-par screws and mounting hardware, it's just not able to hold the projector in a set position.It's been about two months now since having mounted our very lightweight projector and we're noticing that the projector is now starting to shift even more off the center point... I guess we're gonna have to rent the lift again and purchase a better mount.I wouldn't recommend using this mount for high-positioned projectors, unless you own a ladder or a lift that you can often use to re-align your projector. Lower ceiling applications might not be all that bad...Good luck.

This was my first ceiling mount of a projector. I mounted an Epson Brightlink Projector. The instructions would say "Make sure you have placed ________ right. There was no clear picture to show what 'right' meant! I had to disassemble and reassemble many times to get it 'right'. I used the extension for my 9 foot basement ceiling installation. The instructions tell you to assemble the plate to the part that connects the plate to the assembly that holds the projector--as viewed in the picture on Amazon (assemble without the bar). It is not clear that if you are using the extension bar, you must not assemble the plate to the extension, you must wait until later on during the assembly process. All fasteners were available, but they did not come pre-sorted. They all came in one package. I had to take an egg carton and sort the items by size, shape and the materials they were made of, and verify the counts against the instructions. The instructions did not indicate that you would not be using all packed items; and sometimes it was a guessing game as to whether or not I had the right fastener because they were the same color, shape and sometime size--some washers were made of plastic, while others were made of metal. The screws holding the projector holder on to the cube-like connector body, were so loose, they were almost out of their holes. There is not a tool small enough to reach inside the tight space to tighten the screws so the projector could have fallen off of the bracket. I used my fingers to tighten the best I could. On the diagram, you'd see something like c/d/a. I figured out that it means: use fastener c or d or a; depending on which screw/fastener would fit the hole. Even after drilling ample pilot holes, the wood screws' phillips heads stripped, so I had to hand-ratchet them into place. There were three holes on the ceiling mounting plate, and the instructions only indicated to drill the pilot holes for the round holes. Instructions said nothing about using the keyhole. I'm still wondering if I was supposed to use the keyhole for something.Now that I've done the install, the item is doing its job. Now that I have experience with this item, I might entertain the thought of purchasing another if I needed it, because of the prior experience and. If I had known better, I would have purchased one that was pre-assembled as much as possible--even if it were twice the cost. It took me three or four hours to disassemble/reassemble, and figure the whole process out. You need to ask yourself if it's worth the time and aggrivation.

Well.....the product should be good but it came in too late... so I had to buy another one from best buy to hook the new karaoke system and speakers I bought for a party I had.

Good wire, but it needs a line on one side to make install easier.

Your basic speaker wire. All is well except for the 10 or so inches in the middle of the spool which was completely missing copper conductors on the black side. It's a good thing I didn't install it permanently. Mild frustration that didn't require me to tear the wall apart.

This is not pure copper and rather copper cladded aluminum. Copper wires can be had for a similar price.

No markings on the sheathing makes me give this wire a low rating. It should have some kind of stripe or something so you can keep the polarity correct. You need additional equipment in order to use this wire correctly. Other than that it's very good quality. However, the shortcomings would prevent me from either recommending or re-purchasing this wire. If it had the obviously needed markings I would have given it 5 stars.

Had an issue with the casing on the wire in some areas, needing to re-run lines.

If you are already going to spend your money...spend a little more and get a nicer set up. There is a sound delay with every new track, and the sound quality is out dated.

This product became defective within the first 2 weeks of use: it developed a grinding noise while in use and the audio and picture would go out randomly. We have a 5 year old WestingHouse television, used HDMI to hook it up. You can find a comparable product to this within the price range without these problems- I recommend staying away from this system.Our seller was also not satisfactory- if you are trying to buy from stores123, please read on:BUYER BEWARE: stores123 is reseller, they have nothing to do with the quality of the product and their return policies are VERY STRICT. Cited from the Return Policy included on their Seller Profile, "You may return all new, unused items within 07 days of delivery for a refund. The item should be in the condition it was received, unused, and in the original box and/or packaging"The item we purchased through stores123, an RCA Home Theater System, became defective within the first 2 weeks of use In accordance with the stores123 return policy, we have no options available to us for refund or replacement of the defective product through stores123. We now have to go through RCA for a solution. This situation has been expensive and time consuming for us.In addition, our product did not ship until 1 day AFTER the estimated delivery date, so stores123 did a poor job as a reseller as well.

didn't like the system. audio takes 2-7 seconds to start back up when you pause whatever your watching. I gave it 1 star because the speakers are pretty good, and its difficult to find a set for the same price or cheaper. I just replaced the receiver with a different one and had no problems.

Received this item in the mail today and everything looked very nice. I set everything up and was playing music from my computer with great sound. In fact for the price the sound was very loud and clean. The bass however, was not to bad and i liked how it came with different bass options. Only into an hour of playing music i heard a crisp popping noise from the receiver and the sound cut out and my system turned off and now no longer functions. I am returning the item with little chance to try to reorder again.

Worked fine for the first few days then started making a horrible noise for the first half hour when it gets turned on. Sound cuts out intermittently sometimes completely when switching sources or changing the channel.

This system is really bad. (For me)PROS:-It cost me about $150 with the tax, warranty, and shipping included, so it's fairly cheap. (I guess I should have realized that you really do get what you pay for)-It's pretty small, and very powerful.CONS:- The surround left speaker is louder than the surround right speaker. I messed with the levels of each speaker and they still are unbalanced.-The fan noise on the receiver is very noticeable, especially during quiet moments in music or movies.-The sound cuts out, accompanied by a loud pop from the subwoofer. Even if the volume is not that loud, this still happens, about once every 4 weeks. It's not a super major problem, but very startling and annoying when it does happen.-Sound drops and comes back in 3-5 seconds later, for no reason. This happens at least 5 times a week.-If you pause a DVD or Blu-ray movie, the fan (not the receiver) powers down. When you unpause the movie, it takes about 5 seconds for the fan to power back up and the sound to come back on. This happens with every DVD and some Blu-ray movies.-This system won't play Dolby Digital 5.1 Ch. or DTS 5.1 Ch. audio on games like Gran Turismo 5, Dirt 3, or Assassin's Creed 3. It's very tiring to have to go into the settings on my Ps3 and uncheck the 5.1 options every time I want to play these games.-There is no mid or treble present on this system. All of the sound is bass and low end. There is also no way to change the bass, mid, or treble levels. I can see why, because there is no mid or treble in the sound at all to begin with! This is the biggest problem I have with this system.-The only way to change the bass and almost non-existant treble and mid levels are to have the system play in stereo mode. If you do play in stereo mode, you can change preset EQ's like Rock, Pop, Jazz, etc, but not individual bass, mid, and treble levels.*As a side note, if you live in an apartment, or watch movies/play games late at night, and want to use the night mode, which lowers the sub output, it only works in stereo mode.The unit looks nice, and I was very excited to get it. Hooking it up was easy, as everything was color-coded. The user manual is junk because it didn't tell me anything I wanted, or didn't already know. Again, the system is small and powerful, but just has too many problems. I will be returning it and getting something from Onkyo or Yamaha that has a larger receiver and better quality. I know that RCA is a good company, but the Home-Theater-in-a-Box units for most companies are not the best. The reason I wanted this surround system is because it was cheap, and had an optical input for my Ps3. I should have saved up another $250 and went with a better brand like Yamaha or Sony.I would recommend this system for anyone who wants a very basic 5.1 surround sound system and is not looking for quality. I've learned that there are better systems out there. Read the reviews, watch YouTube videos on a particular system you're interested in, and if there is a problem that shows up in more than one review, be prepared for it to happen to you if you decide to buy that system.Oh, the biggest pro I've noticed is that this system does play certain sounds where it's supposed to. For example, the scene in the end of Back to the Future where the helicopter is flying over the town square has an excellent use of the surround speakers, even for this system. It's very accurate and sounds like the helicopter is right there in the room with you. But one of the cons with this pro, is that other sounds, like dialogue, and musical scores, are sometimes played heavily in the surround speakers. This can get annoying to hear things like dialogue quietly in the surround speakers, when it's supposed to be coming almost exclusively from the center channel.I don't think I got a 'lemon' or bad unit because other reviewers have had some of the same problems as me, like the sound cutting out, or taking 5 seconds to come back in after a movie is paused.Anyway, I was not very satisfied with this system and will be returning it ASAP. Look elsewhere for a better 5.1 surround sound system.

Spent hours trying to interpret the directions, sorting unlabeled screws, piecing this garbage together. Eventually I got my projector mounted and it wobbled to the left with no manner of adjustment. What a disaster. I experienced everything detailed in every negative review. Do not buy this thing. I returned it and bought another brand. It was completely installed in fifteen minutes and I'm very happy with it.

The two most important aspects of a projector mount are (1) ease of use and (2) ability to center the picture on the screen, including left/right and up/down. This mount is dreadful on both of those.In order to get the projector on the mount, or take it down, you have to use tools (allen wrench or screwdriver) while obviously working over your head. And the "aiming" is terrible. The projector is inevitably off-balanced, and you have to balance it with one hand while using an allen wrench with the other ON FOUR SEPARATE SCREWS. Compound that with the fact that you have to over compensate for the float in one direction and then, after you let go of the projector, see how much it slides, and I know exactly what rating I give this projector: I give it the FINGER.

Not sure how this currently has 3.5 stars, maybe quality control and I got a bad unit? I say that because there are holes in the hardware that should be threaded which are not. And so my unit is physically impossible to assemble. I took my power drill to it to try to jam one of the screws in and ended up just shaving off the threading. In addition, the mounting screws that would actually allow me to screw my projector to the mount are not long enough to grab the threads inside the projector. So even if I could jerry-rig the unthreaded holes, I'd still have to order longer mounting screws. Don't waste your time, pay a little more for something else.For anyone nitpicky or checking out there own unit that did assemble- I am adept at assembly, but maybe I've made a mistake and someone will call me out. My ceiling plate (A) and pivot bracket (C) will not assemble together as shown in the instructions 1a "Flush mount installation without extension column. Using the extension column will not fix this as it is the pivot bracket that is lacking the threaded holes, so in either assembly I am SOL. The pivot bracket holes for the M-B screws are not threaded. The screws will not catch, will not fit, and altogether will not assemble. Please give me a response to confirm if your holes in that position are threaded, or if I am missing something from the directions, in which case I will certainly amend my review.

Worst projector mount I have ever saw. I could not build this projector mount because two of the holes for the M-K screws to screw into the ceiling bracket were too small and there weren't even any threads. I thought I misread the broken English instructions with very little illustrations. I even had my wife look at it. She is a good problem solver. But after wasting my time for an hour it was no good. There was no way to make it work without making the holes a little bigger and creating threads for the M-K screws. So I get my drill gun out and make the whole bigger and force the M-K screws in which created a thread. However it was very flimsy and I wasn't about to hang my expensive projector from a poor designed and defective projector. I was even willing to call the company to see if they could help me but surprise surprise no tech phone number or any phone number of any kind is found anywhere for this product. It is probably made in China and sold through several different suppliers. What a waste of time. I am very disappointed and wonder why this product received such high reviews. I can only imagine that I got a defective product. I will return the defective one and try it on more time.

I installed this for a PJD5533W. The projector has 3 mounting holes, which this mount it supposed to accommodate.The plate that attaches to the projector has 4 legs and should have a 5th hole so you can move one of the legs to a triangle position for 3 mounting holes. This did not have the 5th hole. I could have drilled it, but I didn't want to ruin anything in case I returned it.Next, all the adjustment screws and the pivots and such? Imagine if you can only adjust them while the project is mounted to it. Hard to get to. Also, the moment you start tightening any screws, you are inadvertently adjusting the projector again. There's another plate that allows for more adjustment but you have about 1" of clearance in order to get a phillips head screwdriver up in there. Yeah, not going to happen.Things definitely would have been easier if I had used the extension bar, which I didn't need, but not by enough of a margin that I would give a star back. This is probably one of the worst mounts I could have bought. Feels like it was cheaply made and had burrs and spikes of metal shavings on it that were quite unpleasant to handle.I won't be returning it because I do not want to pull this mount down again and I do not want to hassle with another mount. If I move and I have to take this down, I will not be putting it up elsewhere. I will buy a new one and sell this locally for cheap since obviously there are others who have enjoyed it.

Beware, Amazon recomends this as an add on for a lot of projectors, including the one I bought, ViewSonic PJD7820HD, but it doesn not fit. Check your specs for mounting on your projector before you purchase this. On top of that, many of the holes drilled did not fit the included hardware. So, the instructions, while clear and well written, were not effective. I will be returning for a full refund. I spent many hours forcing this thing to work the way it was supposed to in the first place.

Had to do two pulls of wire, one of 35 feet and one of 45 feet. Thought the reel was a little light but the label said it was 100 feet. Ended up with one successful pull of 35 feet and another of about 35 feet leaving me having to run out to get more (expensive) wire from Best Buy. Never buying this again.

Not even CL2 rated, don't waste your money

CHEAP CHEAP... DISCARDED

I thought it has an identifier for positive and negative! I guess i have to make means of what i paid for. I really don't understand why they manufacture speaker wires that is not convenient to install.

Copper clad aluminum wire. It should say so in the description for those of us looking for pure copper wire.

I didn't think to read the reviews first, after all its just speaker wire... Amazon basics I usually trust, but this is CCA and its going in the garbage. Not going to cut it for the 50ft run I have.