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here's a great amp! http://www.avahifi.com/root/equipmen...star_240_3.htm russ

actually, IMHO it is not the quantity of power, but rather the quality....those mega-buck amps that you find out there produce a much higher quality power for your speakers than your typical receiver... in my younger days, i always thought "a watt is a watt", but after going through several...

here's a company that produces commercial audio racks and offers everything from in-wall systems to free standing steel racks...along with a ton of accessories... www.middleatlantic.com i have a slim 5 rack with oak side panels...it goes great with my mitsu tv and klipsch klf-30's...all in...

concerning the behringer dsp 8024.....there have been some serious quality control problems with this unit... for one of my customers i have had to replace the unit three times!!!!...number 1 was a bad power switch...numbers 2 AND 3 were dead out of the box..... behringer makes a line of...

make sure your extension cord is rated for a full 15 amps...other than that you should have no problems

i concur with chu....the tripplite has better specs and is lower cost! russ

i agree that whole house protection is a great idea, but not the whole answer.... if an air conditioner or a refrigerator in your house has a compressor fail, it can generate a surge within your house... i just had a customer yesterday who had his computer fried from a surge when his...

bill is right about the series mode protectors..they take a hit and don't even blink... here are the websites for those companies....alot of info is presented in the links provided... www.surgex.com www.brickwall.com www.zerosurge.com i have a surge-x unit in my rack and am very...

there are splitters available that offer a "power pass" option...for example, on a 4 way splitter, 3 of the outputs would have the 3db drop as mentioned above, but the 4th output would have no drop in signal strength...phoneix gold makes a line of splitters that does this.... additionally...

the building codes generally specify two types of in-wall wiring: 1. pvc jacket - used in-wall where there is no air return space...i.e. walls, floors, residential situations(usually) 2. plenum jacket - plenum rated wire will not cause toxic or noxious fumes if burned..."plenum" means "air...

chu, the normal pvc jacket install cable is NOT designed for outdoor use or in ground... russ

chu, here's the parts express link if you care to purchase the compression fitting.... http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showd...roduct_ID=2578

justin you are correct! there is still the price issue.... why are all the dvd-a (and dts) discs 4 to 5 dollars more than sacd's? russ

if your amplifier was putting out 100 watts of clean power then there would be no problem.....however, distorted power even at a lower level can damage speakers

for the best connections out there, check out the new compression style connectors...they are waterproof and the cable companies are all using them now for their outdoor connections.... here is a website that shows examples, but they should be available at most home centers...

FWIW....cost of relative formats... at best buy yesterday i picked up a diana krall sacd disc for $15.99..(dual layer hybrid)...and a diana krall dvd-a for $19.99... all of the dvd-a that best buy had in stock were $19.99 or higher and the sacd's ranged in price from $14.99 to $19.99...

one point overlooked here is using a gold-plated plug with a different metal jack..... i believe i read somewhere about an interation between the different metals..... any thoughts.....?

it is better to amplify the signal before the split

does your minidisc have a digital input?

personally i think rf7's all around is overkill...i have klf-30's as my mains and i am using rs-3's for my surrounds and they can keep up fine with the klf-30's for all the movies that i've thrown at them...

IMHO just about anything outperforms bose... russ

go out and get some switchcraft 3502a rca plugs....these plugs have the longer body and will easily accept 14 gauge wire into the strain relief.... get some 14 gauge wire and make your own cables... russ

where is your monster HTS800 plugged in?...if you are on a different circuit or even just a different outlet from the rotel, you probably have a simple ground loop.... try it once with everything, including the rotel, plugged into the monster HTS800.... russ

also, the noise rejection of the twisted pair construction is much greater than that of an unbalanced interconnect... russ

kirk, i have an alternative to your trek to your breaker box everytime you power up your amplifier... (from the surge-x website) "All electronic equipment has a power supply which charges-up when the power is first turned on. This causes a momentary inrush current which is typically five...

unbalanced connectors are the plain old rca connectors....there is a center conductor surrounded by a shield...the shield is the other conductor of the signal... balanced connecotrs are xlr connectors or trs connectors...the + and - are a twisted pair of conductors and the ground is the...

a power conditioner like the ones you mentioned can only remove line noise....it cannot increase your power.... the harshness that you are hearing sounds like distortion to me....maybe your marantz amplifier cannot handle the volume you are asking it to provide.... russ

i suppose that we should expect consumer reports to only pick low cost surge devices.... what about panamx, monster power, surgex, brickwall, zerosurge, furman, eta, tice, richard gray, and many of the high quality devices out there that many of us have in our systems????? of course, most...

james, that philosophy works until you have something that can't be replaced...a great old tube amplifier...or whatever... the $250 to $400 that you spend on a really good surge protector is worth it if you have some very good equipment or equipment that cannot be easily replaced.... russ