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Rick, They are up in Plano and have a small showroom there. You'll find they are most helpful and you can demo pretty much whatever you want. It was definitely worth the drive for me. (I own the old level 4's)

That's just not the way electricity works. Although you may want to model the electrical signal between the amp and the speaker posts as being some multi layered, complex stream, it really is not. At any given moment it is a specific single voltage at a specific single current. If there is a...

That's just it, with bi-wiring they are not removed they are just moved back to the single terminal that the two wires originate at on the amp. Bi-wiring may make a difference if there is an underlying problem, a bad termination, too small a speaker wire, etc. But with adequate wire every aspect...

I think the author leaves room in The Vacuum Tube Lie; if you like the coloration that a good vacuum tube amp imparts then good for you. What you hear (and you do hear it, its not imaginary) is a coloration but that in itself is not something that needs defense or should even be critized. How...

Five years from now someone will pickup one of these up at a garage sale and feel compelled to post a "review" of it comparing unfavorably to their then current $700 HT receiver. Declaring it par just validates spending more for comparable performance. A review of a receiver that for all...

Fair enough. RTi's with similar sized drivers were (I think they've changed a little since I was shopping) more forward and did not image as well as the HTD level 4's. Pushed to higer volumes the RTi's tended to beam and lean bright, where the HTD's don't. The LSi's were on my short list but...

I bought a 5.1 bookshelf set of level 4's when they went on clearance. I live close to where they ship and they have a small showroom where they demonstrate the products that they sell direct. They are a legitimate company with good products that in my opinion offer excellent value, particularly...

Music CD's- Stereo mostly, sometimes 7 channel stereo depending on the source material. Movies, SACD, DVD-A - DTS if available is always my first preference. If not whatever auto surround selects is generally fine. I find the advanced effects gimmicky. Not alot of THX listening so far. TV...

Its a bass management option on a pio 1014. System setup allows three possible selections for the sub, YES, NO, & PLUS. PLUS, I believe, sends all the below the crossover content to the sub regardless of whether or not it is part of the LFE channel. That in conjunction with setting the front...

For those who feel the 1014 falls short when listening to music (cd's) I would suggest setting front speakers to LARGE and the Sub to PLUS. That thickened things up for me considerably. When I listen to DVD's or DVD-A's all speakers are set to SMALL and sub defaults to YES. With the 5.1 stuff...

I have a one month old 1014 I purchased from One Call and Dish 522 DVR purchased off of ebay. I don't have this problem. I will mention that there is not alot of Dolby Digital programming offered by Dish so most everthing you watch will be set to stereo by the auto surround feature. I did PPV...

Raj, I can only speak to the recently discontinued level 3's and 4's. I don't think anyone would call them bright. Perhaps they lean slightly, ever so slightly to the warm side. How the new one's will sound I don't know. They are significantly different and it seems unlikely that they would...

Yesterday they had one new L3 bookshelf, one new L3 tower in the showroom not hooked up. It will be interesting once they get into people's homes. I have not seen drivers like those, very unique. PM or show me where to look for the details of the GTG I'll see if I can make it. Thanks for the...

So yesterday I drove to Plano, TX and picked up a clearance priced Level 4 bookshelf system, could not wait any longer. A little over a month ago I A/B'd them with the current Level 3's at HTD's showroom. I want to thank everybody that participates in this forum. About a year ago I decided...

bump. look again.

Not sure what's going on but take a look at the picture of Home Theater Direct's Level 3 Center Speaker with black finish. A bad link or the preview of things to come? htd.com/levthrecensp.html (Its gone this morning. What I saw last night while surfing, the picture of the black finished...

I would suggest that the use of a NIB magnet indicates a significant change in the design of the driver that will be used in that speaker. (I bet along with the magnet you'll see a bigger voice coil and different motor design.) If you like the current AS-C1 I think you should buy it. The...

Don't take the argument to its extreme. At no point did I ever state or allude that my position is moving from SVS as a best in class product to a poor product or that SVS lovers were for some reason grossly misrepresenting themselves. It may however be reasonable for some, including myself...

"The SVS guys may have a presence here on HTF, but they sure as hell would never post in a manner that assumes the readers are stupid. " I'm so stupid I think this may be the most interesting thing to appear on this thread in about 130 posts. A representative of HSU is willing to publicly...

Bryan P, If the PB-10 is evolutionary in the respect that it benefits from lessons learned with the PB-12 when do you think someone should consider the a PB-12 ISD over the PB-10?

Back to the man's original question. If you need a bookshelf and can afford the concertos do it. I've been looking and listening for the past 11 months and I can't find a better front ported bookshelf for music and its ruined it for me because I can't afford them and can't find anything close...