loomisjohnson
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| Monitor speaker with the best bass at $500 used fully agree with rrog re: the vs vr1s--they're a great, well-built speaker with massive thump for their size. $500-$550 is the correct used price--i've never seen 'em significantly cheaper. you could also look at polk lsi9. | |
| sleeper small subs stereo application i believe hsu designs the outlaw sub (haven't heard the outlaw, but the hsu is really good). also check out martin logan dynamo. | |
| LED vs Plasma, 60" vs 65" according to pcmag, black levels on the best leds are now better that plasma, to wit:Historically, plasma HDTVs have produced the best black levels, specifically the now-defunct Pioneer Kuro HDTV brand. The Kuro's screen got so satisfyingly dark t... | |
| RCA vs optical cable? someone dares to disrespect almarg? does he not fear the wrath of the audio gods? | |
| 2/3 of the way there. HT crash course help wanted if music were the priority, i'd opt for the b&k (or alternatively something like an arcam avr300)--they're sonically on another level than the mass-market avrs. however, since you indicate you'll be 80% movies, avgoround's advise is sound--a c... | |
| RCA vs optical cable? what i think you meant to ask is whether you can use a standard analog (red/white) rca audio cable as a digital coaxial (spdif) cable. (digital optical cables have a different type of connector). as kal notes, an analog rca cable has a different i... | |
| Help me build a nearfiield "desktop" audio system sounds like you're using your pc as a source, so you'll probably want a dac--consider something like the peachtree decco65 ($800), which is both integrated amp and dac + audioengine p4 speakers ($300ish) which are designed for at-or-near wall plac... | |
| Setup of Rotel RSX1056 w/o Remote? get yourself a harmony universal, which use an easy online setup and will control virtually anything--their earlier models like the 510 harmonyare very inexpensive ($50 or less) on ebay. it'll be much cheaper than buying a replacement rotel remote. | |
| I'm on StereoTimes... pathetic. sad. symetry. | |
| Best Live Album Ever... In Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, only 18 albums were live albums:Live at the Apollo by James Brown (#25) At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band (#49) At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash (#88) Live at the Regal by B. B. King (#... | |
| New way of dealing with Low Ballers? on a certain level i agree that, this being america and all, sellers should be free to overprice and buyers free to lowball. however, this site is, or purports to be, a community of gentlemen/women, not a flea market, and silly offers are more irk... | |
| Windows Media Player could also be that the soundcard in your gateway just isn't very good--most of the audio snobs on this site (myself included) use an external dac for computer audio, which almost always improves sound significantly. there's a gazillion threads on ... | |
| If you had $2000 to upgrade this system... no knock on totem, which i've owned and admired, but your forests are relatively small and limited at the low end--i'd think they only go to 40hz or so--and probably don't throw as big a soundstage as others. i'd look at replacing them with someth... | |
| Next Upgrade Help your speakers are the obvious upgrade candidate. you haven't specified a budget or your listening room, but since you have a monster 200w amp i might look at something that thrives with a lot of power, like revel or dynaudio. | |
| Reference 3A Dulcet or PSB minis for iDecco if you like the imagine minis, the larger imagine b speakers will have more bottom end and cost only a bit more (you can find 'em for less than a grand used). very good, lively r&r speaker. personally, i'm using polk lsi7s in a similar-sized r... |