Recent content by Leroy

Donald, If you can't locate the DV-270s, the newest version is the DV-275s and is still $100 or less depending on where you look. I too had problems with some discs in my JVC, and as I said before, the Pioneer handles everything I've put in it.

I can't speak for those speakers in particular, but I do have a set of Athena Micra6's that sound great. Build quality is good and the 5 year warranty is nice. I've been very happy with them. Athena seems to building up a following and I've read mostly good things about them.

Well, My $70 Pioneer DV-270s holds up very well next to my $300 JVC 723GD. And plays any and every type of media I throw at it, unlike the JVC, which I only keep around for SACD playback. So, there are some good quality, relieable players on the cheap.

Well, I can give you my impresions from the short time I had my 5860. Fairly easy set-up. Didn't like the remotes layout, too crowded for my taste. Listened to several movies to test out DD5.1, DTS, PLII and stereo performance. I was trying to decide between repairing my HK AVR300, the...

Had one for about 2 weeks, but ended up with the digital Onkyo LR552. No real complaints about the Yamaha, but the Onkyo seemed to go better with my setup.

Kean, As much as I have love my HK and the ones before it, there really is no contest as far as home theater use. Keep in mind that my HK is 5 years old and the Onkyo is using all the latest tech. As far as music, I haven't had a chance to do any real evaluation other than listening to Sarah...

That's what I found so confusing. I have mine set to small and my crossver point for the sub set to 100hz just as John G. had suggested. But I just got to wondering how all these setting worked. The manuals do little to shed light on how the settings affect each other. Heck, throw in the built...

Since I've been trying out some newer recievers I'm wondering how the speaker size and selectable sub crossover points for the sub work. My old HK AVR300 only had speaker size settings. No distance, room size etc. settings. If you set speakers size to small, doesn't that pretty much dictate...

Well, I tried out a Yamaha HTR-5860 and an Onkyo LR552 (digital reciever) to replace my ailing HK AVR300. Picked up the Yamaha last week and found it a decent replacement for my HK, but still felt it was lacking (couldn't quite put my finger on it). Brought home the Onkyo TX-LR552...

Been on an upgrading tear lately and picking up the Sony KDF50WE655 LCD set, Athena Micra6 speaker set (down to $207 at BB, great deal!) to replace my mediocre Yamahas. Now my HK AVR 300's IR sensor has gone south, even the remote IR jack doesn't seem to be working. Which of course means that I...

Thanks for the feedback. Normally I do my research before I buy, but when i saw the price and how good the picture looked I jumped on it. I had been looking at the latest Mitsubishi 52" DLP and a couple of Samsungs when I passed by this set. I was going to try and stick with a Mits since...

I'm in the market for a new set as my Mits 46807 is starting to get a bit wonky on me and the extended service plan providers are jerking me around (I paid for a 5 year plan, but the only recognize it as a 3 year-and thus expired-plan). I was looking at a few sets by Mitsubishi, Samsung...

Well, I removed the partiiton on the suspect HD and did a full format. Still got eh same problem, machine dies the instant it tries to start the actual install of Windows (tried it with XP Pro and Win2k Pro). Could the processor be bad? Although everything posts at the bios startup (memory...

Got a major problem. Installed a new motherboard/memory (ECS KM400 w/ 512mb DDR)for a friends PC. Moved all of his components over (1ghz Athlon, 40gb Western HD, Lite-on DVD burner, 32X CD-Rom, 64mb Kyro II video card, 56k modem and some crappy sound card). Here's the problem: Went to...

Any JVC (723GD is the one I have) DVD player owners already have this? I'm wondering if the subtitle (no alien language subs-commentary subs)/random menu(only one shows up unless you manually select a different one) problems from TPM and AOTC have reared their heads on the OT. None of these...