loomisjohnson
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| Help Starting from scratch to my ears, the paradigms are tons better than the polk and b&w you listed--fuller and much more transparent, with a broad soundstage. | |
| Would an SACD Player improve my sound? since you have an excellent cdp, and your sacd use is incidental, i might try buying a very inexpensive universal player (e.g. a used denon, integra or pioneer elite) for your sacd. esp. when connected to the thor, any of these should do you nicel... | |
| Is KEF no longer relevant? i tend to agree with the OP--kef was a once revered brand that seems to have lost its panache. perhaps their made-in-china model isn't serving them well. i haven't heard its current ultra-reference stuff, but i have auditioned its xq and q series ... | |
| Information on Emotiva i can only opine as to, and heartily endorse, their power amps, but emotiva registers as a really solid company with vg customer service. i really like their business model--make it in china, sell it direct w/o the inflated middleman, and build a ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? humble pie: performance/rockin the fillmore--it's been sitting on my stack for about a 100 years before i actually deigned to put it on. surprisingly, it's pretty great--the pre-megastardom peter frampton was a pretty good guitarist who eschewed a... | |
| Speaker suggestions i tend to agree with paulsax--you can do better for less with other candidates. if you liked the maggy sound, i'd consider vmps, which are fuller range and much easier to drive. for a dynamic speaker you cannot go wrong with revel, paradigm signat... | |
| Does anyone have any experience with Emotiva ? i've only heard emotiva's power amps, which are extremely good for their price--i can't speak to the emotiva cdp. however, from my dealings, emotiva registers as a fine, smart company with excellent customer service--i believe they offer a 30 day ... | |
| DVD as transport i see a bunch of pioneer elite dv-45 and dv-47 units listed here for as little as $50. they have nice, well-made drawer mechanisms, read discs quickly and should do you nicely. | |
| Best Audio quality in Home Theatre Reciever? DVD ? apparently the avr350 doesn't support hdmi audio, although it has hdmi video switching. this wouldn't be a deal-killer for me--i'm a 2ch music-first guy and generally apathetic about the endless, mind-boggling array of movie sound enhancements--i ... | |
| Modest Integrated to match with Klipsch RF-82's sounds like you made a good choice. enjoy. | |
| DENON DRA-685 in 'protection mode' will not play usually it means you're speakers are clipping--i.e. the speaker wires are touching somewhere. try rewiring your speakers and make sure the = and - aren't making any contact. | |
| Video Problem - No red spectrum in 720p format i agree with rwwear--the setting on your display is most likely set to rgb (or to interlaced) rather than component (or to progressive)--use your tv remote to correct. you can try running the component out on your cable box directly to the display... | |
| Is the B&W 600 series a good value? knownothing: i did know that the 600s were made in china, which does keep manufacturing cost down; however they're still imported by brits, which means that their price is jacked up because of the terrible exchange rate between dollar & euro (... | |
| Is the B&W 600 series a good value? Personally, I'm not a B&W fan, although I actually prefer the 600 series to the massively overpriced 800/Matrix models. As to you central question, whether they're good values, B&Ws are almost by definition more expensive than many compara... | |
| Most helpful audio companies emotiva is the epitome of how to establish an audio business in lean times--build a decent product, market it directly, which enables it to be priced substantially lower than comparable retail-distributed products, and be zealous about customer se... |