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Here I have my trusty old X-Fi Titanium HD. I've owned it for about a decade now. It has been a great card for me that entire time. For a long time, I used it in my main computer. A couple of years ago I swapped from using the X-Fi Titanium HD in my main computer to using a regular X-Fi...

I'm looking for something like this: http://sound.westhost.com/project14.htm But I don't have the ability to construct my own circuit boards. I'd like to find somewhere selling one of these pre-assembled. Any ideas? Alternatively this is what my amp's manual says about this: So I guess...

I have a Panasonic LX-1000 that I got a few years ago and has been in my main HT system ever since. Today I was at the flea market and picked up an LX-600 for $15. I tested it and it works great, so i'm pretty happy. The only question that remains is if the LX-600 is better than the LX-1000 (if...

Hello everyone, I’ve been out of the hobby for much of last year due to the fact that my old Mitsubishi RPTV was finally starting to die (Got it in the mid 1980’s, so I can hardly complain). All this changed however when final authorization was given to purchase a new TV. Today we came home with...

For those of you who live in Northern California, I’d like to give you all the heads up on our upcoming northern California events. (You'll have to make an account before the register links will work: New User) LANtrocity SF #3 Blue Sky Studio, San Francisco Mar 22nd '03 [ REGISTER ]...

This Christmas I got a Technics SL-MC4 60+1 Megachanger CD-Player. I got it because I asked for a “Good CD player”… I suppose I should have been more specific. Anyways, I’m still going to give it a shot before I decide to return it. What does everyone think about this player? Is it a good...

Today, I was doing something and Cartoon network was on the TV in the background. I noticed they were playing "Tom & Jerry” and it was in Widescreen! So I went and sat down. It was going through the various credits screenes before the actual cartoon started. On the last Credits screen at the...

Please help me fix my RPTV. I have a Mitsubishi 36” RPTV Model# VS-360R form the 80’s. For a while now, it’s had major problems and I’ve just been lazy to fix it but I can’t stand it anymore. Sorry for my lack of drawing skill. The top picture looks like what my Tv looks like when I...

I have a pair of bookshelf speakers that have an “ESS” emblem on the front (see picture below). Has anyone ever heard of these before? They are in great condition except on the back there is a big hole on both cabinets… almost like there used to be a passive radiator there before. Inside there...

I remember when I was younger; I was hooking up a VCR in my room. I wanted to put it on my dresser but it was too far from where the cable came out of the wall. I had another coaxial cable that together with the one coming from the wall would make the distance, but I didn’t have a connector to...

Got a Pioneer SX-1050 at the flea market today for $10. VERY banged up on the outside, missing some knobs, the inside was VERY dusty, and there was wax inside… looked as if someone melted a candle on top of the thing. Needless to say it needed a lot of restoration, so I got to work. I plan...

Picked up one of these for the living room. Paid $20 for it at the local swap meet (Same place I got my Panasonic LX-1000 for $30 at). It only has analog outputs, and the picture quality is not as good as my Panasonic, but since the living room only has an old Pioneer Pro-Logic receiver and an...

Warning lots of images! (Forgot to put warning in topic) Ok, so I managed to get my hands on both the Phantom Menace DVD and the Laserdisc. Just for fun I took some screenshots of each at various points for comparison. Thought I would share them with you all. Keep in mind that this is hardly...

A few months ago, when I was buying my receiver at Circuit City (Pioneer 811s), part of the promotion I got was a $30 gift card and a pair of bookshelf speakers. The guy couldn’t figure out how to get exactly $30 onto the card, so he gave me just over $32. I was so excited about my new receiver...

I run all my video through my HTPC. I play my DVD’s on my HTPC using a software DVD player with hardware video acceleration, and I run my laserdisc player into the Video-IN on my Radeon 64VIVO. My question, is there any way I can take advantage of my HTPC to somehow make the picture from my...

Currently I either use my Computer or my Laserdisc player to play my CD’s, but more often than not, I use my laserdisc player. Reason is that although my HTPC makes a great DVD player, I like to listen to music while I’m doing other things on the computer, which makes using the computer as my CD...

I have a pair of JBL L150’s (http://www.lansingheritage.org/html/.../1979-l150.htm) and last night while listening to an LP I noticed the left speaker was cutting out. I just figured it was a loose wire or cable or something and didn’t worry to much about it because I was tired and it was late...

I know you can burn VCD's and SVCD's and they will play on a DVD player, is there any similar type of disc that you can burn that is playable on a laserdisc player?

I’m going tomorrow to a place that has an abundance of used laserdiscs for sale. Can any of you recommend some laserdiscs to look out for? Besides obvious ones such as movies that are not yet out of DVD… I’m talking about ones with exceptionally good transfers, really good extras, etc… I don’t...

OK, let me start out by saying I’m in no way some kind of Bose fan or anything like that, so please no anti-Bose rants, because you’d just be preaching to the choir. I passed by a garage sale, and decided to stop by. Off to the side, covered in dust and spider webs were a pair of Bose 901...

Hello everyone! I just got a Panasonic LX-1000 Laserdisc player from someone second hand. I don’t think he really knew what it was; he sold it to me for $30. Watched James-Bond Goldeneye on it and it works great. It has two sets of Composite-out and analog RCA jacks, as well as one S-Video out...

I have my mains set to large, yet they don't seem to be getting any of the low bass in surround mode. In stereo mode of course they get all the Bass they can handle, but in normal mode it just gives all the bass to the subwoofer. I thought when you set speakers to large it was supposed to...

I have AT&T digital cable, and have had it for a number of years now. As I get more into HT however, I've come to realize more and more the limitations of AT&T's Digital Cable. 1. Everything is shown in Pan & Scan 2. 2 channel audio only (Really frustrating since it even says dolby digital...

I have a vintage Marantz 2226B Receiver that I got 2nd hand, but since I already have quite a few Vintage receivers, it's just been sitting on my floor for a while. $50 OBO I'm also looking to pick up an old laserdisc player, nothing fancy, just a basic laserdisc player. If your interested...

Is there any way to know "It's time to turn it down" before your amp goes into clipping? Sometimes I can't even enjoy a movie loud for fear that it might switch to a scene with a huge explosion and make my amp clip. I've heard that it takes less than one second to destroy parts of a...

Ok so i'm still living at my parents house through college. My room is NOT big enough for both a computer monitor AND a TV. So I use my computer monitor as my primary display device. Anyway, I read briefly in another thread that it is best to set the refresh rate of your monitor to 72hz...

After hearing people talking about Vinyl and LP's, I wanted to try it out. My parents have a record player as well as a large collection that has long since been demoted to the garage. So I dig it all out, and set it up. I plugged the old Turntable into the AUX rca connectors on my Pioneer...

When listening to a movie on headphones, what Mix is usually the best to choose? do you choose a 2 channel mix, or a 5.1+ mix? I'm thinking the 2.0 mix because headphones have only 2 speakers... but I heard somewhere that dolby headphone uses the 5.1 info to re-create the surround sound effect...

I'm not trying to start an argument on DTS-ES vs. DD-EX... I got the Terminator2: Ultimate Edition DVD and it has BOTH a DTS-ES Matrix 6.1 mix AND a Dolby Digital-EX 6.1 mix.... Which one is better? The only other Discs I have that do the 6th channel are Episode one, and Gadiator. In both...

Anyone know a B&M Store that sells Vinyl? I'm looking for Pink floyd on LP.