Recent content by bbrazil

Any mention of an upgrade path/credit for owners of the current gen?

I seem to recall that's what the original poster was looking for. With a bigger budget, I might go to a bigger speaker system. With the suggested budget, this is a great bang for the buck.

Yay, informed opinion! :up

So you have heard the Yambeka speakers yourself?

That does qualify you well to comment on speakers that you've heard (and your list of suggestions shows you know about budget speakers), but it still doesn't qualify you to comment on a speaker you've never heard... One thing I've learned from evaluating speakers (on a purely amatuer basis)...

What confuses me is how fxstsb could use all those buzzwords, but not a single 1080p. M-JPEG, MPEG-1/2, and MPEG-4 are just compression formats. Generally speaking, they are listed in order of compression ratio. M-JPEG is fairly inefficient, MPEG-1/2 is more efficient, and MPEG-4 formats...

I'm curious what Charper and GaryPen are using for analysis.

Hmm. I would suggest: Speakers: Yambeka Audio Subwoofer: AV123 x-series or BIC America Receiver: Onkyo TX-SR605 (Yamaha also makes excellent receivers; I'm an admitted Onkyo fanboy) But really, it's all about your needs. I'm personally looking at the TX-SR505. I don't plan on...

I'm very pleased with them. There is a promised next-gen set coming out soon. Pending a positive review, I'll probably pick up a 7.0/7.1 set of those and relegate my current set to the forthcoming rec room.

Ah, marketing stupidity. New England isn't a big market for E*, so they don't want to give us NESN-HD, so no one in new England wants to get E*, and the downward spiral continues. Red Sox in HD is important, but Hazel in HD is essential...

You must have the direct line to the red phone or something... No one else has been able to get any kind of response...

I asked him about the rumored "next generation" in late may, early june, but never heard back.

Any news on the new speaker line?

It pisses me off that these radio stations are pushing their hosts to be edgy, then throwing a fit when they're too edgy. XM didn't hire Opie and Anthony because they're good role models for today's youth. In fact, XM initially marketed their show as edgier than terrestrial radio would allow...

Switching doesn't nexesarily need to be done in the receiver. I've been using an Audio Authority component auto-switch for years now and I'm very happy with it. When I turn on a component, it automatically switches to that component. And if I upgrade my receiver, I don't need to worry about...