Wish I could tell ya. That 8,000 ohms could be 8 ohms in European notation, but I don't know. I'm guessing it'd be fine, but don't take my word for it. :D
Thin and harsh sounding. See the woofers? 3 1/2" - you can't cheat physics. They're made to look good next to a plasma and sound passable. The best bang for the buck in your price range will be the Athena Audition series, there isn't a better choice. At the higher price ranges, you can actually...
No, I understood what you meant. This will cause lobbing. Consider a puddle. If you were to take each hand and make a small splash on each side of it, when the waves meet in the middle, they will interfere with each other. This is what will happen to the sound, you'll get an interference called...
You don't want to do this, you'll get lobbing (hard to explain what it sounds like, but it's very distracting). You'd want to run what they call a phantom center (no center speaker). This is fine if you're sitting directly between your R/L speakers, but if you sit off to the side, the dialog...
I'm sure you can find it locally. It'd probably be around $100-$200 more (MSRP $599). Plenty of very reliable online vendors sell it. Circuit City online has it for $450, so you may be able to return it to a store, if you need to. It's a lot easier than you'd think to return a product online, as...
Yes, it does, however it doesn't have HDMI switching (you can pick up the monoprice 5x1 switcher for it, though). The Panasonic is horrible for usability, and ok for features, but has an amazing sound quality. It's worth it's weight in gold for sound quality. However, I wouldn't pair it with the...
That won't get you much SQ at Best Buy. Athena is probably their best offering (the same speakers I suggested). In fact, looking online, the Athena series looks to be cheaper there, so skip audioadvisor. Use your store credit and the Insignia return to buy the Athena Audition series. You can get...
Wow... just my opinion, but I would not have put that much of my budget into a receiver which contributes so little to sound at this price level (what a waste :frowning:). I would've gone with the refurbished Onkyo TX-SR503 from Onkyo online for $180. The Athena setup from audioadvisor.com...
Stereophile finally got around to reviewing the Sonos system. So for those of you streaming naysayers... http://www.stereophile.com/mediaserv...os/index1.html
From what I've heard, the Image T65 gets a bit muddy and heavy in the bass. The Image T55 also, but less so. Following this trend, the T45 should be just fine, but it's something to keep in mind. This kind of behavior is similar to the Monitor Audio RS8 (which tends to be bass heavy) and RS6...
Here's my suggestion: Source ~$2000 (~$1200): Sonos Controller + ZP80 - $750 Western Digital Netcenter 250GB - 150$ Zhoalu DAC - $300-$500 As long as you aren't scared to rip your CDs to raw WAVs (to FLAC using EAC if your collection is unwieldy), going with Sonos will allow you to...