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I have an older Onkyo TX-NR818 ( 10 years old ) and I recently bought a 4K BD/DVD Player to go with a 4K Samsung 65" I bought a year ago, wanted something to take advantage of the 4k setup. The setup is in a room - 17.5 ft. W, x13 ft. D x 8.5 ft. H The following speakers which are also as...

Thanks Mike. Home Depot, at least where I'm at, have the major hardwoods available most of the time: Red Oak, Maple, Alder and Poplar. I didn't feel Oak was required but they didn't have Alder but I knew Poplar could handle it so that's what I chose. The top and bottom came from 24" x 24"...

What can I say; having lived with Ikea/Copenhagen/Scandia furniture all made of press board, one gets tired of expensive non-custom made furniture. Sure, when I was young and poor, that's what we could afford. These days, either we pay more for real wood, or I build it myself. In this instance...

While this site was down, I decided to get the Klipsch RC-52ii center off the Bose woofer as a temporary stand, and mount it above the plasma TV. Went to Home Depot and $60 later, I had some Poplar wood. I broke out all of my power tools for this weekend project: circular saw, drill, 10" chop...

I tried both my account name and Email and neither worked. Tried to see if maybe it was a password issue so I clicked on "forgot my password". After 2.5 hours, no response. Then I tried Facebook and here I am. :D

heh, I'm a bit smitten now. We had told Fry's to get us the Klipsch RF-62II's but they gave us the RF-82II's instead but the did maintain a 20% off . For whatever reason on Saturday, I just didn't look at the box that closely to note the "82" and just went to town building the system. So anyhow...

I figured out the problem... it was me. On the Panasonic, I went to the Input and just looked at the menu... Input 1: Ant./Coax Input 2: Blue-Ray (HDMI1) Input 3: Xbox (HDMI2) ... DOH! It was staring me right in the face. My so-called brain was organizing Input 1, Input 2, Input 3, etc. as...

I'll review that page again. I don't recall if the vol. bar comes on. But I did try to follow their tips on setting it up and it pointed to pages 74 and 75.

I purchased a new TX-NR818 over the weekend and short story, it works great, firmware all squared away, Audyssy MultiEQ calibration completed for now (when I get around to a 5.1 instead of the current 3.1, I'll do this again.) Movies sound spectacular, regained voices thanks to a center channel...

Took me a while to figure out that the initial firmware version was old, but to get to the most recent version, I had to first go to an intermediate level that seemed I could only do via network. So off to Fry's again to get the USB wireless transceiver. Once I got that home, and configured it...

I'm trying to upgrade the firmware so I downloaded what I "thought" was the latest driver but like some computer hardware companies I know (they will remain nameless), it was last years upgrade. Cmon Onkyo, update your freaking website. I just found one from 2/28/2013 so I'm going to do that first.

Thanks everyone. First: Gene, I did get a Monster Cable 'Clean Power - Stage 2' power brick. It was pricey but then again, the great thing about Fry's is they will match internet pricing so the sales guy, was really eager to do that on EVERY item I bought, right down to the spool of cable and...

This weekend I finally corralled my wife and went to Fry's Electronics so she can listen to the various speakers I was going to choose, and other items to make up a HT system. Oh, btw, the left channel of my Bose was not working. I just happen to notice something during a movie where there was...

Probably spend the weekend narrowing down my search for an AVR: Onkyo and Pioneer are in the mix.

Well, I asked my boss... so long as it doesn't have an asset tag, I can take what I want. So far: two Yamaha's and two Tannoy Reveal 6p's and two Tannoy Precision 6p's.

Curious to hear too. Let's also be clear that I am a novice in the AVR world (the Bose Lifestyle 30 doesn't qualify IMO) As a first time AVR person, I'm doing research first. I don't want this to become an argumentative thread. Also keep in mind I may not go full surround. My starting point will...

Philadelphia University - west of Center City (Henry and School House Rd.). She is taking digital animation, which is still a relatively new curriculum and still going through some teething (hard to get good teachers in this field because NYC tends to lure all the good ones.) The school itself...

Jason: Thank you very much on the THX subject. Sounds reasonable that THX would get some type of royalty for a company to plaster their logo on a product - very similar to cars such as "Eddie Bauer" or "Harley Davidson" edition of a Ford SUV or Truck. I guess as I've gotten older, I've gotten...

In my thread "Replacing my Bose Lifestyle 30...", I thought I might be good with say an Onkyo NR-515 after some initial research. Then I took the advice of some and went speaker listening over the weekend. I "think" I've found the speakers I would like (assuming the 'boss' approves) : Klipsch...

Let me see if they'll let me take a 4 speakers. I have to check their asset numbers to see if they really are free. :D Also, I realized there are 5 Tannoys; I think 3 are Precision 6p and 2 are Reveal 6's (or the other way around). If I can secure them, did you have a prefrence?

Here's a little luck (or not) I've run into. We are getting rid of a few studio monitors. I can probably only pick up two of the following: Yamaha NS-10MC JBL 4200 Tannoy Precision 6p Here's the kicker. They're free. So in a sense, cost is not an issue between the 3. Part of me would like to get...

I actually do remember Magneplanar's because in the mid-80's, my friend was a huge audiophile and was telling me about them but couldn't afford them - he did settle for a Dahlquist DQ10 and playing the war of 1812 off of his Nakamichi amp was incredible. Yes, I'm pretty old but I do remember...

So I headed out to two places: Fry's Electronics in Sunnyvale, and a Best Buy/Magnolia Center. Fry's isn't be greatest in terms of knowledgeable people and I've known that for years so I'm glad I brushed up on the basics here (still so much more to learn in terms of fundamentals). The Two-Way...

Jason: Thanks for your input. The TX-NR515 did seem to me, the ideal AVR for my smallish viewing area ( approx. 12' from my plasma to my sofa, and about 20-25' wide ) The fact that we can go with any setup would work out well. I get what you mean by spending more on speakers, which I would agree...

Just signed up and have been lurking about and reviewing systems online as well. Back around 1999, me and my wife bought a Bose Lifestyle 30. By it's 12th year, we lost the LCD display but it still functioned. We also noticed voices in a movie were not projecting like they used to. I messed with...