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Hi. I'm old school. Many years ago my life priorities changed such that keeping up with the latest surround formats and home theater technology lost interest with me. Some old schoolers may remember me as a former administrator on this board when I was more engaged in the home theater hobby. My...

Here's the situation: Used to be my "Home Theater" was my primary music listening system. This is no longer the case. I have a stereo in my office where I do most of my music listening. My wife and I moved to a house some years ago and set up a nice home theater in the basement. I...

I'm looking for an old receiver.  The older the better.  I would be happiest with a dolby prologic model.  I have the following requirements:     Phono Stage Subwoofer pre-out with on-board crossover Working Two tape loops (VCR loop counts)   An older Dolby Digital or DTS model...

Once again I'm contemplating Blu-Ray. My brother got a PS3 so he's willing to sell me his old Sony BDP-350 for family hand-me-down price. I'm not really interested in upgrading much other stuff in my system, I'm using an ancient Integra DTR-7 and an Infocus X1 projector. Last time I...

Here's the movie room. Sorry for the large image sizes. No Blu-Ray, and very little interest. View from behind the main seating area. Having three identical speakers makes for an outstandingly balanced front sound field for movies and multichannel music. The room is pretty enormous and...

Not sure if this counts as hardware or software. I'm thinking of getting HD service from Dish Network. I've had very good experience with Dish's SD service for many years. I am on the plan where we get a lot of movie channels but we don't have the "pay" services like HBO and Cinemax. At my...

Not sure if this should be in Music or TV programming. Did anyone catch the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Anniversary Concert on HBO last night? I watched some of it, and turned it off (it's on my DVR) at the beginning of the Jeff Beck segment. At the beginning I thought it was pretty good, but...

The DTV Transision is finally happening today! This is the biggest change in existing broadcast formats ever undertaken in the USA.

See my other thread about how I've given up on CD. I'll be buying LPs for anything I can from here on out. I have a very good pro quality sound card and I can make CDs from needle drops that sound better than most mass produced CDs. Here are some examples using SoundForge to demonstrate...

The "Loudness Wars" make me so sad. The other day I tried to listen to Paul McCartney's "Memory Almost Full", all I could hear was a distorted mess. Just for grins I decided to bring up Sound Forge with rips of a couple of songs from Metallica's "ReLoad" which I have as a CD recorded from my...

I'm considering a Blu-Ray player to feed my old X1 projector (no plans to replace it). Anyone else running a similar setup? Since the 16:9 area of the X1 is native 480P it seems to me that Blu-Ray at downscaled 480p would effectively double the resolution compared native 480i upscaled DVD...

What are the great "must have" games for this console? I have a Madden (2005 I think) and I have Burnout 3: Takedown which is FANTASTIC and a few others. I like MULTIPLAYER games most of all.

I absolutely love my InFocus X1. I do not own a single HDTV, and have no intent to replace my two 27", one 20" and one 13" "bubble" TVs till they break. I am completely satisfied with my Integra DTR-7. I had 7.1 separates a few years ago, but went back to the simpler 5.1 receiver setup and am...

I blew the woofer in one of my old Mirage 290IS speakers. The replacement from Mirage (Klipsh owns them now) does not fit. I can't afford to replace these great sounding speakers. What do you think the chances are that I can get good sound from a replacement driver from Parts Express?:crazy: I...

If you have an old HTIB passive sub that you're no longer using - I'm interested!

Got a cheap old receiver collecting dust since you upgraded? I'm looking to spend under $100 shipped (looking at $50-75 options on craigslist). Here is what I ideally want: * Dolby Digital (PLII would be a big plus!) * Three digital inputs * S-Video Switching (not a necessity, but a...

My nephew has an H-K AVR-140. He only has left/right analog hookup for his DVD player right now. No digital cable. The problem he's having is that with analog sources surround sound modes don't work. Whether it's FM stereo radio or the DVD player hooked into L/R, stereo sound works OK, but...

Anybody got it? any good? I have "Nightfly" on DVD-A and LP record and the other two on regular CD. I don't know about the bonus tracks, I don't think I've ever heard them.

The Wharfedale tower speakers I have been using in my office busted. One of the tweeters is not working. Darn. Any recommendations on majorly cheap speakers? I could do bookshelf speakers or towers. These are towers and I've been happy with that configuration. No sub no "critical listening"...

Last weekend my wife and I went out for dinner, I had been watching the Phillies game in HD on the local FOX afiliate on my X1 ED projector (calibrated in DVD mode with DVE). I recieve HD signals on an Accurian receiver with an antenna. The picture at the bar, on an unknown new 16:9 plasma...

I'm looking to buy a home treadmill. It will get a LOT of use. I want to get the most for my money and will be happy with a used item. Perhaps a commercial gym model? Any advice?

Are there any concerts available on Sirius music channels? How do I find the schedules? I get a bunch of Sirius music channels with Dish Network and if there are live concerts I'd love to record them!

Got an Onkyo or Rotel receiver and dying to try that newfangled surround music format? This cable is just what the audio doctor ordered. $30 ships it to your door. Not audiophile quality, but has gold plated connectors. In many years of use I never had a complaint. Originally bought from One...

For sale: High quality stereo receiver Harman/Kardon HK3270. This is a very nice stereo receiver with some great features: 65 very clean watts per channel, stereo subwoofer outputs, high quality PHONO preamp (I used this extensively - LP records sound great through this receiver), AM/FM radio...

Are there any alternatives to the Bose Wave Radio? With an aux input and multi-CD player?

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Over the weekend I cought the last 4 songs of Lyle Lovett's performance on "Austin City Limits". I was absolutely floored. The songwriting, the musicianship, the quality of his voice, you name it. I need to buy some CDs. Help me out HTF faithful. Where do I start.

The JVC stereo receiver I'm using in my rack to power my in-ceiling speakers is dying I think. Hey I bought it in 1982 not bad, huh? So I'm going to cycle my old Prologic receiver from the bedroom to the rack, moving my awesome main home theater receiver, a circa 1997 Pioneer VSX-D606S, to the...

A classic Onion article... http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930 Today's news..... http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/14/news...e500/gillette/

I'm thinking of putting an HDTV monitor in the corner of my basement and running it from the same HDTV receiver I already have. Can I use Y connectors on the single component out from the HDTV box to two 50' runs of component for two HDTVS? Or do I need some kind of other solution?