Recent content by Tom Sullivan

Ah, I see you're hooked on that THX logo. THX is nice in that a THX movie will sound smoother or less trebly. But any other format THX will dull it's sound. At least that's what I've found. The HK7200 is incredibly rich with bell type highs that don't hurt your ears even at high levels. Also...

Chris, I'm the guy with the SR8000, my emails back to you keep getting the undeliverable error. Glad I spotted your thread. It's still available, I pm'ed. Tom/guitarman is my usual handle :)

" Last week I got a Kenwood 6070 from ecost to try out because it has THX. It go some favorable reviews from magazines and users. However after I hooked up all the connections on first power up it flashed a bright light popped and smoked. lol I have a replacement coming this week hope I have...

Yes if you get your sound meter out and cue for 90db's the amp opens up nicely for movies. You get even more Elastic Snap. :)

"Ecost, I can get a refurbished SR-601 for 304.99 with free shipping. Is this a great deal, or should I be concerned with a refurbished product being junky? Does anyone have some good or bad experiences with refurbished products?" Last week I got a Kenwood 6070 from ecost to try out because...

I prefer the speakers at small and having the HSU handle the bass, even though each of my Pardigm Towers have powered subs in them. From what I've heard this past weekend comparing the HK7200. Both my Marantz and the Onkyo 701 were made to seem bloated compared with the cleaner bass on the...

"-10dB is for DTS music only, and the normal setting is 00dB. There is no explaination for a case when one would want to set it to off." This makes sense with DTS bass being overly strong.

"The most obvious difference was the bass which was clearly stronger on the NAD." Bass could be subjective also. Like I don't like bloated bass. In comparing the HK7200 to my Maratnz SR8000. The 7200 has a cleaner bass sound where as the Martanz could be considered bloated. I use a HSU-VT2...

I think it's best if you can to keep this and any other receiver out of closed cabinets. Now at home I can compare two great receivers with proper setup, the Marantz SR8000 and the HK7200. Guess what I like the HK7200 alot better. It's that elastic snap you get, plus it has much more clean...

JimIroc, The speakers make a huge difference. I heard the AVR7200 with Pols Audio's and the HK sounded 10X better at home through a full set of Paradigm's. I don't know what you got the Nad for but the AVR7200 is selling around $750 now. If you can before you return the NAD, try the HK at...

Zero means flat, minus DB's is for lowering the output. 0 is best, I set my SR8000 to Cinema EQ On also, to keep my ears from ringing. :)

This Fry's just had a Grand opening in Concord/Bay Area. On Sunday the AVR7200 was $799.00, I wanted to see if they would deal down to $599, no way they say - I don't think Fry's deals like other retailers. Anyway I went back on Monday and the sticker price was lowered to $749.00 so I thought...

"I have a couple of questions... Does the 1400 sound "bright" with Paradigm speakers? I have Monitor 3's up front with an infinity center and infinity rears. Someday they will all be paradigm. But i need a new received because my SR7000 is dead right now." I have a full set of Paradigm...

Guy, re the Avia color & tint flashing patterns settings. In case others aren't aware, when viewing the pattern you want the flashing boxes to reach their stopping point and also you want the lower boxes to shade match each other. Is this correct?

Hi Bob, A friend from San Jose brought over his CF-6000 to tune my HT1000 projector. I'm using a Bravo D1 and after the calibration the results were beautiful. The tune up took 4hrs, every slight change of RGB-B/C in the lower and higher range of IRE kept moving things around a bit. It was tuff...