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| Sunfire Theater Grand 1, to buy or not to buy... Last I heard, the III will be coming out in the not too distant future. I believe (and you'll have to verify with sunfire, which has an OK website) that you'll be able to upgrade a II to a III, but not a I to a III, so the obsolesence might be a f... | |
| Top Ten Speakers of All Time? I think the current Bose 5-speaker home theatre package will never be beaten for sound quality. The bass goes so low, you can't hear it. The mids...well, it's like a perfect reproduction of sound generated from behind a brick wall...magical. And t... | |
| Anyone under 30? I have been appreciating live orchestral since I was 15 or so. That was 11 years ago, so I guess I'm under that magic number, though not for too much longer. Xiekitchen makes a good point. Another problem is money. I bought my first system, mostly... | |
| Best PreAmp with HT pass-thru? There's a conrad-j in the 2k ballpark with a pass-thru. Audio research makes the ls-16 and ls-25 (mark-II, I believe), which both have pass-thrus. They retail for more than 2k, but you can get them used, and they sound really terrific. I'm using a... | |
| Good small sub. I am also a big fan of REL, although even the Strata is not tiny. For really small, but still useful, you can try the Velodyne HGS-10. | |
| Science Fiction Time ? How about this: a purely digital vaccuum array. Instead of speakers pushing the air, one has dozens of tiny vaccuum modules around the room. They receive a digital signal, and create a vaccuum of a certain strength, for a certain period of time, d... | |
| Classe, Sunfire, or EAD I use the sunfire for HT, and have demo'ed the classe ssp25 in its place. The sunfire has a large advantage in features (e.g. matrixed 7.1, a tuner, better display, multiple sub outs), and is more convenient to use. Sonically it was about a wash. ... | |
| Is my DVD player POSSESSED? Glen, I have thought about sending it back. I haven't tried things like cleaning the CD's though. Many are old, and have minor scratches. For some reason, the Theta skipped much more when it was new than after it had been burned in. Until it spit ... | |
| Is my DVD player POSSESSED? I use my Theta Carmen as a CD transport as well as DVD player, and I also have found some weirdness. It skips more often than other players, and just last night spit out Watermark (which no other player has refused to play). I think the Theta stuf... | |
| Help I need some speaker suggestions I'm with Ehider on this. Dunlavy stuff seems to fit the bill for what you're looking for. Alternatively, I use a pair of Snell C/V's, which are configured similar to the Dunlavy philosophy (in terms of physical layout of the drivers). They're pret... | |
| combining HT Stereo? Wait a minute, the stereo pre-amp with a HT pass-thru will only work if you can get your HK receiver to spit out a line level signal for the fronts. | |
| combining HT Stereo? There is always compromise in a dual-purpose system, however it has several economic and convenience advantages, which is why I do it. First off, I would get a sub, which is critical for home theatre, and pretty important for 2-channel. Rel works ... | |
| best cd/dvd player in silver? I can't tell if you're serious, but in case you are, my Theta Carmen not only sounds great, but is damn good looking (it is silver colored, but presumably not made of sterling). The Theta David-II looks similar and sounds even better. I read a thr... | |
| Preamp expriences? Good value amp The Audio Research tube preamps also sound nice, and have theatre pass-thrus. | |
| Recommend me a good psychologist I'm a good psychologist. Honest. Really I am.I've even met Dr. Westheimer. I was 14 at the time, and she said something to me that really embarassed me. Oddly enough, someone I currently work with (who is also a psychologist) is related to her by ... |