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The receiver in question is an old Kenwood 1080VR that I'm using to amplify a stereo signal from a computer. When I first set it up the volume will be reasonably loud at "-40 dB" and loud at "-30 dB". But after months of time (6 months or so) I'm finding that I have to turn the volume up louder...

I've currently got a high end soundcard (Auzen X-FI Prelude) going into an old Kenwood 1080VR receiver. The receiver is used to amplify and drive a set of Paradigm Atom speakers with a seperate powered 8" home theater sub. I'm running the speakers through the sub instead of running the speakers...

I've pulled a lot of good info from the Home Theater Forum over the years. Time to share a bit of my own. I've made this little website for my theater. It's not fully complete yet, I'll have a black velvet masking system surrounding the screen. Still, it's pretty good. What will interest you...

I'm pretty much sold on buying a Panasonic PT-AE900U Projector. My problem is that the market for projectors in Canada is just awful. I can buy it from a Canadian website that imports them from Japan (causing possible warranty headaches) but that's about it. Otherwise, I need to order from a US...

The time has come for me to buy my 6.1 home theater speakers. My setup is using a Yamaha RXV-1300 Receiver which is capable of handling loads down to 4 Ohm on the main left and right speakers and 6 Ohm on the center and surround speakers. The receiver has a set 80 Hz subwoofer crossover which I...

I want to buy an HDTV tuner card for my PC that will let me watch TV on my computer. This brings up two questions. First of all, which card? And secondly, I know that HDTV isn't very widespread in Canada and I wonder if I'll even be able to get an HDTV signal from an antenna in the Vancouver...

I posted this in the After Hours section as I don't know where else to put it. I'm currently having my first taste of living away from home. I'm off on an internship for a year in Vancouver, and my home theater is back in Calgary. I went from living in a house to living in a small apartment...

I need a CD player. It doesn't matter if it's one-CD or multiple-CD capable. I just want something of decent quality for a value price - around $200-$250 Canadian ($150-$200 US). I don't think fancy high-def features like DVD-Audio and SACD matter that much to me, but if I can get it, great. My...

When I crank the volume up LOUD (pretty much to the top), the speakers hiss pretty loud. I do this because I have a few songs that are quiet, so to get the same volume I need to crank it up. Now I'm pretty sure there isn't really anything I can do about this...but I want to be certain. I'm using...

I've never seen the movie before, so it's kinda (really) annoying when it just freezes in the middle, then suddenly skips ahead 5 minutes. It's a brand new purchased DVD, and it plays fine in my computer and in my cheap Panasonic player. What can I do to get this blasted thing working on my...

Whenever I go to a movie theater I find the action always looks blurry. The only time I get a clear look at an actor's face is during an extreme closeup when the head takes up the whole screen and there is little movement. Otherwise, I always find the image to be unclear or unfocused, especially...

I'm annoyed that DVD prices are so high. It costs about 25 dollars (CAN) for a new DVD, and that means my student budget doesn't allow for much movie purchasing. I'm only interested in the movie, I don't care about the how they made it (nothing like picking apart a good movie), or the deleted...

Yesterday I bought 6 high quality songs for 32 american CENTS. It seems too good to be true. I found a website out of Russia that sells songs online. You pay 1 cent per megabyte downloaded. I put 5 dollars (US) in an account and proceeded to download songs in Ogg Vorbis Quality 6 format (very...

Tell me if I'm correct. An anamorphic lens goes on the lense of a projector and stretches the image in width. This way, you can set the projector to project a squished 4:3 image (using all the projector's avaliable pixels) and then stretch it into the proper 16:9 format using the lense. This...

If this is in the wrong section of the forum, please move it to the appropriate place. Thanks. Maybe it's been discussed before, but there's a Swedish radio station that's apparently broadcasting in DTS audio. They have a bunch of samples on their website. Checking them out, I find most...

I paid $1000 Canadian for my Yamaha RX-V1300 receiver just under a month ago. Just the other day I was looking at the paper and there was a sale advertising the RX-V2300 for $777. I phoned up the store I bought my receiver from and asked if the price for the V1300 had changed. It had, it was now...

I know that a 15" is pretty capable of producing acceptable base, but what's the biggest sub driver out there? I know of 18" drivers, but are there larger yet? What size is used in large movie theaters? What about building a huge driver in a huge sub? Maybe something that's 6 feet in...

I've currently got a run-of-the-mill Panasonic DVD player. Lately I've had some issues with the sound not working. I don't know if it's the player or the optical sound connection (sometimes it just works, sometimes it doesn't). To make things easy on myself, I'm going to just buy a new DVD...

I want a good quality receiver that supports both Dolby Digital and DTS (although pretty much everything does). I can't afford seperates. I'm currently using a Kenwood 1080VR receiver (without DTS support) and it's been acting up. It has 120W X 4 power (the two rear channels are 60W). For...

Kenwood? Pioneer? Alpine? Rockford Fosgate? Pheonix Gold? MTX? Etc etc... I don't know what's good and what's bad. When I look at car audio advertisements, I see parts from different manufacturers mixed together in different combinations. Can I simply concentrate on one company and find...

Not long ago I remember reading a discussion here about buying used DVDs instead of new ones. Being the poor guy that I am, I thought I'd check out a few pawn shops and see if there was anything decent. Well I just bought "Gladiator" for 10 dollars Canadian (about 6 US) from a pawn shop and...

A few years ago I bought a Kenwood 1080VR receiver: 120W X 4 (the two surrounds are 60W each) Dolby Digital 5.1 (no DTS) It's a model from 1997. I'm wondering what I should sell it for. I'm in Canada, so all funds Canadian. It originally sold for $1000. I bought it for 600 (with a...

Loud bass doesn't hurt my ears like loud treble does. If I listen to treble at high volumes, my ears are screaming. But I can easily listen to bass at loud volumes (110dB for example). Is the bass as damaging to my hearing as the treble is, or can I safely judge the danger by how loud it seems...

I got to thinking, what if you could only enjoy one aspect of DVD? Aspects being: - Widescreen - Digital Sound - High quality picture - Bonus materials Yes, I know widescreen isn't unique to DVD (nothing is), but for the most part I see it as a major aspect of it. (I never watched...

As I read the forums it's become clear to me that it's all guys in here. I don't recall seeing any ladies posting. So where are they? There's gotta be women interested in HT too! Boy would I love to find a gal who knows the value of digital sound and a high definition picture! Jonny K. :)

I have a Kenwood 1080VR receiver that doesn't work correctly, and I'm quite annoyed about it. Here's the story: Several years ago I was looking for a receiver. At "Visions", and electronics store, I found this receiver. It was selling for $500 Canadian (when the normal retail is $1000 or so)...

Today I collected some data. I've got an Adire Tempest driver built into an "Adire Alignment" box. It's an awesome sub. To collect some data about it I used a CD I had created with sin waves at HZ levels from 20 up to 160 in 5 HZ increments. I set the amp gain all the way up (AVA250 rated at...

Yeah yeah, I'm a noob. :) If my receiver sends a clipped signal to my sub, I want it filtered out so the sub won't go nuts and become damaged. Is there any such thing? (just something small and in-expensive that I can put on the line between my receiver and sub amp). Thanks. Jonny K.

Right now I have a frankenstein home theater. It's made up of a bunch of mis-matched speakers that I found here and there around the house. It kinda started with me buying a receiver to get a digital radio at home, and I thought "hey, why not play with it?". The sound really sucks, and one...

I have a song in my head, but I don't know the name of it. I'm SURE you guy's will have this solved right away... "I've been a fool played it dumb, shoulda played it smart, used my head and not my heart" Or something like that. It's sung by a chorus of men. Jonny K. :)