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Your thoughts on preamp/processors

Ok, what are your thoughts on this?

I have a EAD Ovation. I love it, it sounds awesome, looks great, but is a huge pain. If you are not familiar with EAD, their products do not have any buttons on the front.

So here is the issue, the batteries in the remote died while I was away on a business trip and when my wife put new batteries in, it dropped all the codes. Now it does nothing, not even volume up or down. I contact noble and they offer a remote for $275. While I debated on this, I bought a harmony universal figuring I can use it in another room if it didn't work. I was surprised, but they had EAD Codes in their online database.

So, now the unit works with the universal remote. However now my wife is even more confused by the system and it seems everytime I am away on business, she cannot operate this component. I have a 3 year old and he has no patience, this only frustrates the whole situation as she is trying to figure it out, he is bugging her in the background.

Do I just ditch the thing and get a new unit with a volume knob and traditonal buttons on the front?

Is there anyhing that can compare to the sound quality?

Is it smart to buy a unit that does not have HDMI?

I do have a seperate 2 channel music room, but even with that, I find I listen to quite a bit of music in this room as well as DVD Concerts.

I have FOCAL SPEAKERS, HD DVD Player and Pioneer Plasma in the room where the Preamp processor will go...

Sorry that was so long...help me out here.
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I hear you. I had the same problem up until a month ago. I have a Pioneer plasma too and was using and ATI 7 channel amp and a Sherbourn 7010A processor. It sounded really good, but there was always the control problem for the rest of the family.

My solution was to sell the ATI and Sherbourn and buy a Pioneer receiver. I purchased the Pioneer VSX-94TXH from Ebay and a SR+ cable from Pioneer. The SR+ cable allows the receiver and TV to talk. Se everything up in the receiver once and off you go. The units both change inputs when needed. If i want to watch tv using the Pioneer plasma's tuner. Once push of the remote button and there it is. My family now has no problems.

The sound quality didn't change. The pioneer receiver sounds really good too. I have a HD-A3, a Playstation 3 and a DVD/VCR combo going through the HDMI inputs of the Receiver. It is really nice to use one cable for the video and sound and the ability to decode Dolby HD.

A Pioneer receiver and SR+ cable from Pioneer should solve your problem.
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