Hey thanks for the reply. After I posted this thread I figured a couple things out. First, eBay is a bad idea because like you said I probably won't know the condition of the tubes and shipping will be pretty bad. Instead of eBay I found this Curt Palme CRT Projectors site. This guy rebuilds and...
I've been very hesitant about buying an LCD or DLP projector strictly for movies and some PC gaming. Things like lamp life, color degradation, rainbow effect (which I suffer from), visible pixels and native resolutions all kept me from buying one. I thought CRT is the perfect answer but the...
I was at Future Shop the other day and I came across the Polk Audio CSi3 center for only $90. I've read about the center before and decided to pick it up since I didn't have a decent center. It was the last one and since it was on display they took the price down to $65 so I was pretty happy...
The fact that the rolls are only 54" in width has stopped me from attempting to make my own. I have a fair amount of room to play with, but 76" x 154" is just my maximum. A screen that large would take up almost the entire wall and that would probably make it too low to the floor. Keeping the...
Right now I'm searching for a projector and a good 16:9 screen to go with it. I really don't want to spend more than a few hundred on one but I want something that doesn't make the projected image look worse than what it really is. The maximum height for it is 76" and maximum width is 154".
I'm only 2 and a half hours from Regina so that would be the best place for me to audition and buy some speakers. Good to know that the Studios are a noticeable step up from the Monitors. I'll be sure to audition them when I can. Only thing is that my $3k budget also needs to include a...
I live in a pretty bad spot when it comes to purchasing products online - a small town in Saskatchewan. Seems everything comes from BC, Ontario or the US. I've been looking for some Canadian alternatives to save me some trouble. I've rounded it down to these lineups: Paradigm Monitor Athena LS...
I decided that a whole new system would benefit me a lot more than just a couple upgrades. Keeping it around $3k Canadian here is what I have picked out: Center - Swan Diva C3 Mains - Swan Diva 5.1 Surrounds - Swan Diva 2.1 Sub - SVS PB10-NSD Amplifier - Emotive LPA-1 Pre-Amp - Emotive...