Recent content by Dick Knisely

In that price range there are lots of good choices and few if any really bad ones. Personally I'm partial to Denon and Onkyo in general tho' I owned a Toshiba DVD player and loved it as well. (Denon is in the process of revamping their line so I can't make specific model comments.) When...

By your description everything is working properly in the sound system. Is this right: -- With a DVD you're getting output to the surrounds. -- With the cable box you're not getting much if anything to the surrounds. If so, then there are a couple possibilities. First, how is the sound...

Sara -- was your question how high _can_ you put them or how high _should_ you put them. The should part is opinion but the going opinion seems to be that ideally all the tweeters are at the same height or close to it. However, I have to say that I personally don't notice much difference for...

I'm sure someone makes short cables but you'll end up paying a premium. But several suppliers make 3 footers at decent prices -- one example: https://www.cablesforless.com/index....S&Category=420

The main advantage of routing anything throught the AVR is video switching at the AVR -- useful if you have more inputs of a type than the TV/monitor can handle. Main disadvantage is a potential signal degradation by going through the AVR when it isn't needed. Typical advice is to avoid more...

In this order: Format incompatibility Price of the players Selection of players Price of the software Selection of the software If I go HD it won't be for at least a year. That's the minimum time I figure it will take for one format to win or another format to show up and threaten both...

The trouble is the fact that you didn't buy a TV -- you bought a monitor. Now that's NOT necessarily a bad thing but there's no TV Tuner on board and that somewhat limits what you can do. Basically it means you have to have a cable set-top-box from the cable company but you'll need one anyway to...

I've seen it occasionally with the Cox digital cable TV service. Technician's response when I asked about it added up to "...duhhhh...".

"...homeowner associations now have rules against outside antennas,..." All of which are now completely illegal. Because the OTA Digital TV & HD transition (and thanks(?) to the lobbying of the broadcasters) all such bans are gone. Link Removed

The 1st generation of 1920's did seem to have more issues than the production runs that followed. I've got a 1920 purchased late last year and it works great. I may be a less critical viewer than some but I've got absolutely no complaints for DVD, SACD or DVD-A playback. Nit: I don't like the...

Why are you considering the switch? Yes, you'll almost certainly be disappointed in terms of usability features. Nothing beats or even matches TiVo there -- but depending on what specific features you're looking for the Cox DVR might still be worth considering. Not to discourage you here...

Wayne -- whoa... that reminded me... how could I have forgotten! There's a Sansui R-7 sitting in the guest room down the hall that still works just fine thank you, despite its circa 1979 manufacture date!

Anyone been listening to XM Pops (113) lately? To my ears, this one now sounds much better than I remember it and better than most of the channels. The S&V article about XM's 5.1 broadcast mentions that channel as one that's carrying the surround channels. Tho' I don't have a compatible decoder...

Aw come on now, most of that stuff ain't "old" :) My HT is (a lot!) newer but my 2 channel audio system is built around an Onkyo TX-108 receiver that I bought right after it appeared on the market, '88 or '89 I think. It and it's Onkyo cousins (CD player and cassette deck) are all just as...

Personally, I'd pick the Denon but that's strictly because I've had such good experience with their AVR's. Got to say tho' that both look terrific by specs.