hager_charles
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| Musical Speakers that can provide dynamics for HT Forget the Amps and Speakers route. I'm almost finished selling my entire Aerial HT system (8bs, CC5, SR3) and Bryston 500Watt Monoblocks for ATC. Check them out. www.atc.gb.net as stereophile voted them system of the year for 2001. Go with the Ac... | |
| 480i,480p,780,1080? To Sailinfla: No, you cannot get local stations (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX) in HDTV from a dish OR digital cable. It is ONLY available through the airwaves w/ an aerial antenna.... | |
| HDTV Widescreen recommendations, please Sony Wega XBR Flatscreens are the best going! The perfect flatness of the screen gives the picture an extra dimension and sense of depth that normal curved tubes won't. | |
| 480i,480p,780,1080? DVD players can put out 480i or 480p depending on the type. Most older DVD players are 480i. You may have heard of new DVD players have Progressive Scan. This is where 480p comes from. Interlaced DVD players did not output ALL of the information o... | |
| Which are the best HT speaker. REL,Aerial,Velodyne It seems to me that a lot of folks didn't see the limit of $15K on their recommendations.I HAD and All Aerial System for home theater and music. Ran it all w/ Bryston 500Watt monoblocks. I had the Aerial 8bs, CC5 Center, and SR3's. Sure a good sys... | |
| Volume Controll on DVD/SACD players Check Wadia, they use to have variable balanced and unbalanced outs. Also, my old Sony Reference CD player has a variable output control for just that 2 channel setup. I'm not sure if the new Sony SACD player has the same variable outputs as the o... | |
| ATC for Home Theater??? Wow, K peterso, that's a serious allegation over Linn!!! I haven't heard a Linn home theater myself, but have read many reviews that it was supposed to be the bomb... My ATC's should be arriving in another week and I'm getting so anxious to hear t... | |
| Classical Nirvana for 10-15K I have a couple recs, though my system is a bit different. I run a pair of ATC Active 100's. They're internaly TRI-amped, so you don't need any amps. I run them Directly from my Sony CD player which has variable output control. It doesn't get any ... | |
| Need help choosing a monitor Go with the ATC A10's. THey're $2500/pair new and include the internal amps (bi-amped)! I own 3 of the 100's, also internally powered. Check them out at www.atc.gb.netATC took home the Stereophile Mag system of the year for 2001. Almost no one's e... | |
| "naked" listeners A well designed speaker is compensated for the loss in high end due to the speaker grill cloth. The reason that taking the grills off makes it SEEM better sounding is that it's a tab bit brighter. A few more dB's in the high end. Unfortunately, li... | |
| BEST SPEAKER FOR BRYSTON 7B ST,,, I own 7b st's as well. I've heard all your 4 items, I'd rank them in this order:Aerial 10t's, then THiels, then B&W, and last PRoAc. I went with the Aerial 7b's myself. I might switch the B&W w/ the Thiels depending on the day and weather. | |
| Home Theatre speaker suggestions I've just love tooling around listening to ever different speaker that I can. Any city that I travel to, I have to take the time and just search out new brands to test drive. Heck, I even go to the CES and T.H.E. shows in Vegas each year just to g... | |
| I need to be wowed Three very simple letter is the answer to your prayers....A T CThey are from England, they've mainly only done professional sound until recently (they're in 60% of the recording studios, including Sony and Todd AO). They are finally here in the st... | |
| Help with new speakers The ATC Active 20. ATC is in ~60% of the recording studios in the world. I bought 3 ATC 100's and couldn't be happier. ATC's system took home Stereophile's best system for 2001. One quote is "Best system at any price". Check them out. www.atc.gb.n... | |
| Opinions on M&K MX-5000THX Sub. Or best Sub The ATC SCM-70 Subwoofer is hands down the most amazing sub of all times. At $15,600 retail, it better be!This was the sub that was part of the Stereophile System of the Year for 2000. The entire Home theater was ~$93,000. This sub is easily the F... |