Recent content by charleyp1

Just wanted to let everyone know what they probably already know. $500 off the Epson 5040ub at BB. $2500 is a steal for this baby.

That's a good price for a great receiver. Sorry you're having that issue as well. It's pretty annoying. The firmware update fixed it for me and most others. I wonder if something else is wrong with your unit specifically? I'd definitely return it for another one. This is the best receiver I've...

Got my XPA-5 last night and hooked up 3 of the channels (fronts and center), popped in Dream Theater: Breaking the Fourth Wall concert bluray, and after a few minutes, the amp shut down. I removed the center channel from the amp so it's only driving my fronts and everything seems to be okay...

This really is a sexy little beast. I'm going to have to pick one up. But I would love to hear more on the buzz issue. I'd be using Apple devices with it as well...

So I think I'll hook up my old 606 using the MCH ports, like you suggested, Sam. I assume I will take the pre-out on my new Pioneer SC-95 and plug it into the corresponding MCH port on the old Onkyo 606 via RCA cable? I'm going to test it with my surrounds and rear surrounds. i.e. Pre-Out...

Yes, indeed. It looks like the price beat your prediction ;-) I'm a little shocked, honestly. That model just came out in October and it already dropped $500.

I can report that there is a new firmware update from Pioneer for the SC-95 and 97 and after applying it, I can now connect via wired. I'll test wireless tomorrow as well as BT. And to make the night even better, Magnolia has dropped the retail price from $1599 for this receiver to $1099 and...

Well, after an hour and 45 minutes on hold waiting for a Pioneer tech support, I finally got through to a very polite a friendly guy named Ahmed. He told me this was his third call this week for the same issue and they are now logging all of them to be pushed up the chain. It sounds like they...

That's a good idea. I will look into that possibility tonight. I didn't think to write down the fw revision when I was able to connect so hopefully there's a newer revision available.

I recently purchased a Pioneer Elite SC-95. When I installed it I couldn't get it connected to my home network, either hardwired or via wifi. After exhausting my limited network troubleshooting skills, I contacted Pioneer. After 2 hours on the phone with a very pleasant tech support person...

Just a final follow up, until resolution at least, I searched around on some other forums and it appears that I'm not the only one affected. It looks like the Pioneer Elite SC-95, or at least *some* of them, have major networking problems. Pioneer has not yet officially said so, but several...

So I spent 2 hours on the phone yesterday with Pioneer tech support. We tried reconfiguring the network port several times and factory resetting the receiver a couple of times - all to no avail. The receiver logs into my router (TP-Link, Archer C3200), gets an IP and then drops out a few...

Hmm, using WPA2-PSK AES. But it won't connect with a wired connection either. Tried a couple of different cables to eliminate that. Very strange.

Got audio working but absolutely no network connectivity. Bummed out. Wired is behaving the same way as wireless. I get an IP initial login to my router and then it drops. Ping returns: Destination host unreachable. Guess I'll contact Pioneer in the morning.

well, router rebooted, no change.