Recent content by DarrenH

Anyone have a good recommendation for a full 5.1 system for $1500 or less? Here's what I'm looking for: System will be primarily used for watching TV and movies. Music to a lesser extent, probably 80% video 20% music. For music, I like mostly rock. Rooom is roughly 16' x 17' Looking for...

Thanks for the advice, Dave. I don't know which way the joists run, was wondering that myself. I can only hope they are parallel to the desired cable path. I really don't want to go the wireless route, I'd rather run that flat type wire above the molding where the wall meets the floor...

Hello all, I just moved into a new place and starting to work on the HT setup in the living room. Looking for some advice regarding cabling and speaker mounts. Cabling - of course going to want to run through the walls. The place is a condo, so no basement or crawl space access is...

Thanks for the responses. The display is on the same power strip as the rest of the gear. This is just regular old power strip, not anything that does any cleaning. Will try your suggestions when I get home tonight. Thanks again!

Hi Leo, They scroll, bottom to top. The banding is lighter than the actual picture, and usually of uniform size. There is some variation of shade within the band. The TV came with ferrite cores but the manual did not say to put them on component or S-video cables (not even sure what these...

Hi all, Just got a Panasonic TH-37PD25U and seeing some horizontal banding, either from HD cable box or DVD player. Both these sources are switched through a Sony STR-DE2ES. Using AR Pro component cables, made sure there were no power cables around the video signal cables. Any thoughts as to...

Hi all, Was wondering if anyone else is having this problem. My Sony DVP-NS755V will not play SACD's. Used to work fine, now doesn't work at all (with no changes to equipment or wiring). What is happening is when you put in an SACD it plays the first second of a track, then silence, though the...

Hi all, Actually, the one I had in mind was Judgment Night. Body Count and Faith No More are also quality listening material. Thanks!!!!

Hi all, Hoping someone can jog my memory. Back in the early 90's (I think) there was an album of hybrid rap and metal, similar to Anthrax and Public Enemy (though I am not sure if their version of Bring the Noise was on this album). Does anyone know the name of this album? Thanks...

Hi Mike, Thanks, don't feel bad that I didn't pick up on it i the manual then. Will give it a shot this weekend...

Hi All, Does anyone know how to change the label names of the components? When you hit the "Other" key the names of various components are displayed on the touch screen, i.e. the first by defualt is MD. I wish to change this to be SACD but was unable to figure out how to do it. Maybe I just...

Sublime - got into them too late Dead Milkmen - was going to catch what was going to be their last performance in Philly, but got in argument with my father and didn't have use of the car. They broke up a short while later. I am still bitter...

Hi John, My first bike (and current for that matter) was a 1984 Honda VF500 - the red white ond blue one. Great bike to learn on, picked it up cheap, small enough to handle yet big enough to have some fun with. You can also get Ninjas at around 500 or 600 cc (don't really know their line that...

Ok, no one said it yet, so I am Otto!