Recent content by Chris Popovich

I use a sub with music 95% of the time. The other 5% of the time I forgot to turn the sub amp on and it's something light being played as background music so I don't notice. I use B&W 804's, previously used paradigm Studio 100's, and my experience has been consistent; with the sub on, the...

Good choice! I was in your shoes (without the great discount) choosing btwn the Monitor 7's and the studio 20's. I really wanted something I could play loud (college days, sigh) but once I heard the 20's I fell in love.... I later moved them to surround and got the 100's. I got used to...

Hello all, I'm looking for a decent external amp to power my B&W 804's. I was thinking about getting two Parasound 2125's and bridging one per channel, or just get one 2250. 250 watts or 400 watts but with less low impedance capability. What are your thoughts on this? My 804's minimum...

The salesman's name was Loyd (if I remember correctly), and he did not smell, lol. Nothing but a great experience there! -Chris

I ended up picking up the 804's. I listened to the 805's, some very nice Martin Logans, a variety of Paradigms, NHT, Energy, PSB, Definitive, Polk, Focal, and Dali (for fun, way too much money), and the 804's won me over. I start grinning when I hit the 'play' button and don't stop until the...

I tend to like a detailed speaker, I am looking forward to auditioning the 804's and 805's. Thanks for your input, this is good stuff. -Chris

Terry, I have had nothing but good luck with my crown k1. I know they aren't cheap but you can pick them up used for a very good price. I think I got my k1 for about $600 used. It has worked flawlessly since. -Chris

Hi all, I'm going to pick up a new pair of speaks. Looking to spend somewhere up to 4k for stereo. I will be driving them with an older 200watt/channel parasound but may replace it with something nicer within a few months. I was looking at picking up the B&W 804's. Anyone hear them or...

I would think twice before tuning that low. 15hz tuning is LOW, you're not going to be getting much out of that port until you're really dipped far down in the ferquency spectrum, and seriously increasing the chance that your driver will bottom out around the 30Hz range. The "saddle" in the...

I'm not going to do anything until I am sure it won't screw up my Tumult! Thanks for the reminder though. I hear fried McKitten nuggets are good..... -Chris

:angry: My cute new kitten decided to sharpen his claws on my tumult surround. So there is significant damange. Luckily not to the kitten, though I thought about it. The surround is still intact, in that it's air tight, as much as I could tell by pushing on the cone as well as very low...

Cranky co-workers won't be a problem. For one, speakers are common, but also I tend to work later than everyone else, and would mostly be using it when on night shift or after 3:30 or so. Thanks though. If I hear "free bird" one more time through the secretary's clock radio I'm going to go...

Thanks for the response! Nice to see some options besides the Klipsh. I had heard the Bose in BestBuy, I think, and thought they were okay for the size. It'd be tough to own them though, lol. Thomas, who is the girl in your signature? Very nice. -Chris

Hi! I'm looking for some cheap & relatively inexpensive computer speakers for work. I'll most likely be plugging my MP3 player into them (creative MuVo Tx FM), so no worries about sound card, etc. I was thinking that I'd like a 2 channel system better than a 2.1 just for simplicity. At...

ThomasW said it best when he stated that you should try it yourself and see the difference. You can argue whatever you want on here, but at the end of the day, adding dampening to the sub box will filter a lot of higher frequency 'noise' out. If your physics doesn't support this, then you...