Recent content by Nathan W.

Actually, I'm in San Diego. I don't really need speakers at all. I've got too many pairs as it is. But I still would have bought the five BICs at that price if they were local to me. That's what kills many seemingly good deals on Ebay, shipping charges that is. That and the high risk of shipping...

you stumble across a fantastic deal on Ebay and then find out it's "Local Pickup Only" and nowhere near you? Kinda like this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/5-BIC-America-DV...QQcmdZViewItem I would have snatched those up in a heartbeat.

Easily straightened, you say?! I think not! The carrier must have delivered the speakers without stopping the truck! http://cgi.ebay.com/Polk-Audio-RTI12...em190089697970 I'd have liked to see the cabinets. Probably a pile of chips.

DLP is not susceptible to magnetic interference. Only CRT based sets are.

That site also has some "PVC" towers. Don't know if they're pvc coated or solid. Either way, that's also a new one on me.

Here's another obvious copycat to add to the list: http://www.hometheaterspeaker.com/ And here's the real deal: Link Removed Even the logo design is being copied. These can be found on Ebay also.

They're just a distributor of those high end products, not the mfgr. Does seem a little suspect though.

.62992" of excursion to be exact. They must be using pro sound 18" drivers. Some of those have less than 4mm Xmax (8mm peak to peak). I guess you can tell I didn't finely sift through the site like you did. I basically just looked at the pretty pictures.

I gotta agree with ya on the package price vs the driver cost. I would not pay anything close to the full asking price for those speakers, a couple hundred maybe. In that light, it's pretty scammy. While I don't view the Hi-Vi drivers as high end, their quality appears to be better than the...

Oh. Coherent electrons. Never did like 'em. Man. Some people only listen to their equipment, not the source.

Huh? What's a tice clock?

That site doesn't strike me as a scam in any way. Those speakers look really nice with those various veneers and flush mount drivers. I didn't see any B.S. specs or terminology for marketing purposes on that site. The midrange drivers and tweeters look to be from Hi-Vi Research, definitely not...

I'd wait for some of those opinions.

Maybe (man, I hope not) the system is emphasizing a certain frequency range to seem to stand out like Bose does with their cube systems. You would have to listen to the system longer with movies and music to see if it actually performs decently or if it would just get irritating after awhile...

I guess they use some other decoding process like Bose does since it's cheaper. I wonder if that "pure marketing B.S. name" decoding even works? A lot of uneducated people on Ebay are eatin' this stuff up. It's too bad they're gettin' suckered into "a little better than TV built in speaker" sound.