BobRoulier
Second Unit
- Joined
- Mar 16, 2002
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- 347
First I want to say thank you to all on this forum for directly or indirectly helping me choose my dream system. and secondly I am not trying to continue any debates or push anything on anyone I just want to share my expirence
First off I am pretty picky and whenever I purchace something I always think "maybe if I spent a couple hundred more I could have got the latest and greatest" (sound familar?) anyways with that said about 4 months ago I bought my first reciever a Pioneer elite 36tx great reciever but i wanted more power, more processing, more everything! I had heard about the 49tx but wanted to look other places first. So I home demoed a rotel 1095 amp and 965 processor then the 1066 as well great for ht but it seriously lacked in music, I thought the 36tx sounded better in music the 1066 had a slight improvement but not much. So I decided to give the anthem avm20 a try a big difference in music compared to the rotel 1066 very close in ht giving the anthem a slight edge. Although a great processor it lacked some of the current bells and whistles that I had heard so much about.
After reading so many great reviews on the 49tx I decided to give it a try Scott at soundpros.com was awsome $2550 shipped great price anyways I recieved the reciever double boxed in perfect shape my expectations were quite high so I was pretty critical when I unpacked this beast it was quite heavy thats a good thing though first thing I noticed was on the bottom of the unit it was solid copper the finish is very nice anyways I coulndt wait to set this thing hooked up to my new Paradigm studio 100s and cc along with the rest of the family of speakers and svs 20-39 plus the sound was very impressive for a reciever. the auto calibration was next, I placed the microphone supplied with the unit at my listening area and the reciever did the rest WOW! for like ten minutes the speakers were talking to the reciever and visversa it was like all of avias test tones on the disc plus more all done for you in like 10 min. it was impressive and the best thing is you can fine tune afterwords. In moveis and music its stunning of course there is a lot of modes that are useless but I really enjoy ultra 2 for movies, 5 or 7 channel stereo and direct stereo for two channel music with the eq on or off. The internal amps are good but when I hooked up my new parasound 2205 (220x5) amp the base really intensified and the sound stage opened up the parasound is a fantastic amp. I feel the studio 100s need at least 200watts to bring them to their full potential. Im no expert but I dont think there is much on the market at this time that can touch the Pioneer 49tx as far as processing and features and by the way I got sick of waiting for the outlaw. I am very happy with my choice maybe next year something better will come along but for now I am very happy hey its just one mans opinion and this man couldnt be happier
see ya Bob
First off I am pretty picky and whenever I purchace something I always think "maybe if I spent a couple hundred more I could have got the latest and greatest" (sound familar?) anyways with that said about 4 months ago I bought my first reciever a Pioneer elite 36tx great reciever but i wanted more power, more processing, more everything! I had heard about the 49tx but wanted to look other places first. So I home demoed a rotel 1095 amp and 965 processor then the 1066 as well great for ht but it seriously lacked in music, I thought the 36tx sounded better in music the 1066 had a slight improvement but not much. So I decided to give the anthem avm20 a try a big difference in music compared to the rotel 1066 very close in ht giving the anthem a slight edge. Although a great processor it lacked some of the current bells and whistles that I had heard so much about.
After reading so many great reviews on the 49tx I decided to give it a try Scott at soundpros.com was awsome $2550 shipped great price anyways I recieved the reciever double boxed in perfect shape my expectations were quite high so I was pretty critical when I unpacked this beast it was quite heavy thats a good thing though first thing I noticed was on the bottom of the unit it was solid copper the finish is very nice anyways I coulndt wait to set this thing hooked up to my new Paradigm studio 100s and cc along with the rest of the family of speakers and svs 20-39 plus the sound was very impressive for a reciever. the auto calibration was next, I placed the microphone supplied with the unit at my listening area and the reciever did the rest WOW! for like ten minutes the speakers were talking to the reciever and visversa it was like all of avias test tones on the disc plus more all done for you in like 10 min. it was impressive and the best thing is you can fine tune afterwords. In moveis and music its stunning of course there is a lot of modes that are useless but I really enjoy ultra 2 for movies, 5 or 7 channel stereo and direct stereo for two channel music with the eq on or off. The internal amps are good but when I hooked up my new parasound 2205 (220x5) amp the base really intensified and the sound stage opened up the parasound is a fantastic amp. I feel the studio 100s need at least 200watts to bring them to their full potential. Im no expert but I dont think there is much on the market at this time that can touch the Pioneer 49tx as far as processing and features and by the way I got sick of waiting for the outlaw. I am very happy with my choice maybe next year something better will come along but for now I am very happy hey its just one mans opinion and this man couldnt be happier
see ya Bob