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  1. Porcupinepuffer

    Custom Paradigm 2200

    Hold the phone. I'm definitely not sealing the port! I've already completely removed the guts of the amp and filled in the internal surface area of the box with MDF that the existing amp occupied to maintain the exact same internal volume design of the box that paradigm made. I want to keep this...
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    Custom Paradigm 2200

    Yah, regardless of quality, it seems the auto on eventually gets weak and starts to fail, or sometimes doens't kick on when you want, or even goes off during quiet moments in a movie and then you miss the first moments of a sudden action scene. I was actually looking into a way of using the 12v...
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    Custom Paradigm 2200

    At first, I was looking to do just a simple fix with maybe another brand of plate amp, but the design of this subwoofer box has only a narrow strip on one side, with the giant port in the way for any other plate amp to have a chance of being retrofitted into the box. I was looking at both the...
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    Custom Paradigm 2200

    I have a second generation Paradigm PW-2200 subwoofer from a buddy of mine. The amplifiers power supply seems to have gone completely dead. This generation of subwoofer is 400w RMS continuous. I do not want to replace the amp with the same piece of crap for the money I have to give Paradigm...
  5. Porcupinepuffer

    receivers

    If you're looking for something with minimal problems, Yamaha RXA-2020 would likely have you as happy as a pig in poop. I have a much smaller and older RXA-800 that sounds fantastic with my Polks. But I'm using an A6 center, A7 fronts, A3 rear surrounds, and R15's for back surrounds, with a...
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    Onkyo TX NR 515 with 18 gauge speaker wire

    I gave an opinion and ideas on how to change the wire to make it right. I never implied not to worry about it. I was only saying that if you're house is on fire, it's from something other then speaker wire... If someone really doesn't want their house to burn down, there's about 1000 more...
  7. Porcupinepuffer

    Onkyo TX NR 515 with 18 gauge speaker wire

    Sorry. I forgot you're the greatest home theater poster on the planet.
  8. Porcupinepuffer

    Please suggest me a Receiver

    I was referring to the model listed. Not the name in general. It can be obtained under $379. This model seems to come with manufacturing defects that make almost as many people hate it as those who like it. The 1222 blows it away.
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    Onkyo TX NR 515 with 18 gauge speaker wire

    18gauge is fine for powering these little in-wall speakers. But how long a run are we talking here? 30 feet? 50feet? 70feet? those numbers matter more for the size used. If 50 feet and under, I wouldn't worry about the size. Now for the whole fire part... I've heard it's a fume related issue...
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    Please suggest me a Receiver

    When you say you like those KEF speakers, did you hear them? Or do you mean you like them for their looks? With the receivers, I would go for the Pioneer SC-1222-K 7.2. (But isn't this one out of your price range?). It has lots of power and will drive the speakers better then the other 3. I'm...
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    Need help picking a receiver. Not sure how much power I need, please help!

    You're mistaking "gifted" with "somebody giving you their junk because they're too lazy to throw it out themselves. Those speakers look like crap. The whole package weighs 36 lbs? My center channel alone almost weighs more then a complete 5.1 system with a subwoofer? I can just imagine the...
  12. Porcupinepuffer

    Opinions on Possible Upgrade

    So I really enjoy my home theater and doing little upgrades here and there over the years. My current 7.2 speaker system consists of all Polk Audio. A7 fronts, A6 center, A3 surrounds, and R15 rear surrounds. I have a Velodyne DPS 10" subwoofer and an infinity sub. The current receiver is a...
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    Yamaha RX-A800 and Polk RTI A7's. What to do?

    Just found out my Energy C-6's are 92db room efficient. Most "copied" for sale listings show them as being 89db, which is wrong. Upon further searching, I found the proper specifications for the whole line, which explains why they are easier/louder then my A7's at the same power level. I've done...
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    Yamaha RX-A800 and Polk RTI A7's. What to do?

    Holy cow my head is going to explode. Yeah I can't play the wall because I hate Pink floyd with a passion. I know their sound is supposed to be fantastic through a good stereo, but they just don't tickle my fancy. I'll play around with the speakers some more when I get some banana plugs. I just...
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    What RCA's do any of you use?

    Length and quality does matter as the longer anything is, the more there is to lose. Unlike with HDMI cables, These wires voltage/frequency is very delicate and the quality of the build and proper shielding DOES matter big time. I remember over a decade ago when I paid over $150 for a pair of...
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    Yamaha RX-A800 and Polk RTI A7's. What to do?

    I see what you're saying and how the paperwork says they're decently efficient compared to 87db or less speakers. But it still makes no sense to me. My RTI A3's have a sensitivity of 89db, which is the same as my A7's... The A7's are essentially the same thing as the A3's but with 2 woofers and...
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    Yamaha RX-A800 and Polk RTI A7's. What to do?

    Maybe the efficiency is somehow divided by how many speakers there is? Look at the RTI A9's. They have 3 woofers, 2 mids, 1 tweeter and an efficiency of 90db and still demand a big pile of power. Whereas mine is 2 woofers, 1 midrange, and a tweeter with an efficiency of 89db. I know for sure the...
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    Yamaha RX-A800 and Polk RTI A7's. What to do?

    The problem with that is that I really enjoy, and collect 7.1 blu-rays and this receiver requires the sacrifice of the rear surrounds for bi amping... I know the newer models of the Yamaha receiver, (starting at the 1020 model) actually allow you to keep your rear surrounds while giving an extra...
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    Yamaha RX-A800 and Polk RTI A7's. What to do?

    So upon some further investigating, it seems the simplest way to do this is to completely cancel out my fronts altogether from my receiver and use the front main RCA outputs to power a 2 channel amplifier for the polks without any of the bi/wiring/amping I was originally looking it. Since it...
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    Yamaha RX-A800 and Polk RTI A7's. What to do?

    I recently aquired A7's as my front mains. Center A6, surround A3's, and rear surround polk R15's. Everything is great, except I noticed these A7's are very thirsty for juice. I purposely went down from A9's for this reason. However, I do believe (and according to everything I've read on many...
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