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Honestly, if the B&Ws are in good working order, I would keep them. A matching center will be expensive, and could be something you work toward in the future. But for now, I'd try an ELAC UniFi center and see how it can match in. Yes, it's ideal to have matching speakers all around, but that...

Agreed with Scott. Those two players really are your best bet. There isn't much to choose from, to be honest, and the Sony players are... funky. And yes, to get a full featured player, like the 820, it'll be about $400. The days of cheap players and media seem to be in the past. And I would...

You just need a phono preamp.

Yeah, I would use 12GA OFC (oxygen free copper) stranded speaker cable. There is copper clad aluminum that's a bit cheaper, but I'm a little skeptical of that. You don't need to spend a fortune. Look at something like Monoprice 12GA OFC.

Enjoyable movie, but a rather obscure choice for this treatment, it seems to me.

This is one I've never seen, and Tarkovsky is a bit of a struggle for me. The viewer really has to be in the right frame of mind, and well rested. I pre-ordered this a couple months ago, and supposedly it will be here on release day.

FWIW, I did this math in my head, so it might be off, but it would take something like (48) 24 AWG wires to equal one 12 AWG. It might be only 40, but still.

I don't know about the colors. Others can comment on that. This version of the movie looks very bright and well lit. It has a completely different feel from what it's always been. Personally, I think that was a mistake. I'm just not fanatical enough about it to get very upset about it.

I vaguely recall this thread is about the 4K release of Aliens, so... I finally watched it a couple days ago. The opening sequence really jumps off the screen. Dynamic range of the torch cutting through the door kind of made my jaw drop. The movie is now very bright overall, visually. So...

I doubt that TV has a component input anyway. Unfortunately, the image is so tiny, it's impossible to see what's there. However, it does appear to have a plug for an A/V "dongle" that should work with yellow composite video output on the player. The dongle is something like THIS, and connects...

Actually, Kaleidescape is better than disc, with a cost to match. Also, I still think you're rather overstating the amount of data dedicated to 4K movies on disc. I understand even 80GB is beyond rare. It seems to tend more to a max of 40-50GB for a 2 hour movie. I have a UHD computer drive...

I was going to mention that myself, plus even though a 4 layer BR disc can hold up to 100GB, it's virtually unheard of for the feature itself to occupy 90GB. So that stat strikes me as motivated reasoning. For me, with my HT that is more audio capable than video (with a 65" QLED) and Gb...

The answer is rather simple. It's a video media player. It doesn't read data discs. You need a computer drive for that.

I'd be inclined to give this one a purchase, but for the life of me, I can't decipher the code. I doubt it's possible for it to ever look spectacular. I believe it was a fairly budget affair.

So NOT surprised. Wait, do they mean that consumer products and professional medical devices are different in some significant way? Who could have known? I mean, except for anyone with an ounce of functioning grey matter.

As Jeff mentioned, some receivers do have a mode that shuts off the video circuitry for pure music playback. That could be it as well.

It's always possible the hdmi board in the receiver died. That happens. You never said what model it is or how old it is. I would disconnect the receiver from the A/C overnight. This does a sort of low level reset, and it's amazing what it can fix. Sometimes this stuff gets stuck. Also...

No doubt they type a question into a database and are fed back an (often completely wrong) answer.

I should have asked. In what way did the Denon stop working?

No. I swear, customer service is useless at most companies. The TV does NOT need to have ARC if you're not using ARC. You didn't need a new TV. Unbelievable. Clearly something in the configuration of the receiver or TV, or both, was changed and caused it to stop working. Think about what...

Wireless speakers aren’t nearly the solution a lot of people expect. Since the room is wired, I’d stick with a receiver and regular speakers.

That’s basically been the reaction to the ending since it came out.

There’s also the 7706

They do. Just not in the new ownership line.

I realize that's the conventional belief, but why? I mean, from a perspective of physics, why is that? Certainly the actual floor won't vibrate when it's on concrete, but most of the bass we perceive is sound waves traveling through the air. The concrete structure prevents those waves from...

This is just my personal opinion, but I prefer to know as little as possible when going into a new film. Just a general idea of what it might be, but nothing more. I find it far more rewarding to enjoy the exploration of what it is, and try to stay open-minded.

I fully expect to enjoy and appreciate this film, but I've been in such a crappy state of mind lately that I realized when I tried to watch it a few days ago, it was not the right time. So I decided to come back to it later.

Complaints about comprehending dialog are common. Unless the center speaker is damaged, it's highly unlikely it's a hardware problem, so I wouldn't jump in and buy new equipment expecting it to solve anything. I see nothing that should be physically causing a problem with the setup. So, it's...

Wait a minute... Can it be? Those aren't reliable sources populated entirely by experts? You've shattered my world view. :) Yeah, it amazes me the mind blowing ignorance found in those places.

A couple decent budget options are the Dayton SUB-1200, and SUB-1500, the second is out of stock for about six weeks.