Approximately 27 years ago I bought the speakers that I still use in my HT today. They're Thiel CS3.6, which are legendary for being hard on amps. They are incredibly hard to drive, but they sound amazing and I could never afford something of their caliber at current prices. In the time I've...
I guess I must be tough on amps. My main speakers (Thiel CS 3.6) are notoriously difficult to drive and it seems they are sending their second amp to an early grave. It's an Emotiva XPA-2, and the same problem it's developed claimed the prior amp, an Aragon 4004II. That Aragon was not a...
Where I live [somewhat frequent] power outages are all but a certainty. Like many of us here, I have some expensive and precious gear and want it to be protected. To that end I installed [professional grade] Whole Home Surge Protection and also have a Panamax M5300 downstream.
Unfortunately...
I'm working on putting together a subwoofer in the home theater. Right now I have a Samsung 5.1 Home Theater System with 1000 Watt Samsung Blueray reviewer and Thunder TC512 double coil 300 watt RMS - 900-watt peak each passive subwoofer that I would like to use.
I can replace Samsung sub with...
Recently bought the hub and companion. I have a major issue that never occurred with my other Harmony remotes. I have a TiVo Premiere for my cable tv feed. When leaving a "watching cable tv" activity to watch a DVD for example a power command appears to be sent to the box. The Tivo box and...
So I have an old Marantz SR 7300 that I am having problems with. Plugged in, I see a red standby button. However when turning the unit on, you get a click a couple seconds pause, and then the unit turns back off. No display on the front or any other lights, sounds, etc. Thinking it was the...
It appears the last thread was Sam's solar thread from 2014. So I'll start a new one for myself.
A few homes in my neighborhood have gone solar and that got me a bit interested, but I was lazy and didn't followup on it. Then two friends, one a neighbor and one a coworker, told me they're going...
I am going to be moving into my new home soon and wanted to get prepared for a server rack I have been putting together over the last few months. The rack is a large 42U server rack from Tripp Lite. So far, I have the following components in the rack:
NETGEAR Orbi Whole Home Mesh WiFi System...
i have a harman avr 1700 bought bran new 5 years ago had no isues with it but now when turn power on with remote or power button on recieve it power up for a few seconds then shut of and power light flashs can anyone reply to what can be wrong with it or give me thread that has info on it...
I'm pretty sure this has been covered somewhere on this or other forums, so I apologize up front. I had an old (7 years old) Pioneer vsx 1021K receiver that would make a single loud pop noise whenever the receiver was powered on. It was loud annoying, but I got over it. Recently I purchased a...
The audio salesperson tried to convince me when listening at normal level (home-theatre) we only need the amp to output between 10-20 watts to speakers. Is this true ?
So, why do people have clipping / distortion issue ? In which circumstance would it have clipping / distortion ? I guess the...
Hello,
I've got an STRDH520 receiver. Works pretty well, except lately I've been experiencing an odd issue. At night, I turn off my receiver. The next morning when I want to watch tv, I turn on the receiver (I have HDMI for Amazon Fire TV, HTPC, and Gaming Console - with 1 HDMI going back to...
I bought the wrong motherboard a couple of months ago, an Asus Q170T/CSM, and decided "What the hell? I'll make an HTPC!" So I started doing research and bought some more parts. One of those parts was the Corsair Obsidian 250D case, which has room for a full size ATX PSU. If I don't use a...
We've checked the fuse inside the plug and the fuse inside the AV receiver itself.
None of the capacitors appears to be damaged.
We've tried without any speaker cables being connected.
We can't perform a reset due to no power.
Any other ideas?
Had a lightning strike take out a lot of electronics around the house. Yes everything is on surge protectors. Regardless my GFA-7605 is only working intermittently. When it doesn't work the LED on the power button is dim.
The 12v power supply output only measures 11.72 volts. Is this the...
Well,
For a long while I have had huge Klipsch towers and the center (RF7II and RC64II), but I find myself wanting a little room freed up, and maybe something with a less in your face horn. Plus I never do 2 channel music any more either. So, the shopping began, and Ill start with, speaker...
Scott Hart
Lionsgate To Release Power Rangers 4K Blu-Ray With Dolby Vision
Lionsgate has announced that its first 4K Blu-ray with Dolby Vision will be the forthcoming Power Rangers movie.
This film will be released in June, which is the same month that Universal will be releasing Despicable...