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Happy Friday everyone. Picked up this all in one Philips music center for my office. It has a built in CD player, FM tuner and hard drive for music. It uses flat panel speakers with two built in subs. It won't replace a big system but it does very well filling my office with rich sound. I also like having a full function remote so I can control the system from my desk.

The rack of SAE gear is sitting in the sun room at my house. The pre started turning off by itself, so it needs some bench time. Not sure what I'll do with the system. I don't need it, I'm not using it and it's taking up room. It may be time to move it along to the next care taker.

I pictured you more as a Stadium guy Luther.

You've led a sheltered life. It's a meteorological term, right Sancho? :-) Mornin' In Line Freeze

Good Friday Morning Gang 45 and bone dry. Thanksgiving, the wife has chosen, stay home and cook for three days Winter projects abound, turkey weekend i finish the mailbox alert. No thoughts of the day, more coffee perhaps.... :emotion-44:

Morning gang, 2 cups down and working on the third. At the shop earlier than normal. The crazy weather witches are calling for 3" of snow by this evening. So the contractor's are panicking and wanting the equipment now. Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

Nice looking office setup, looks like a Tv screen with the image of a music player.

Great looking system, that is what i had in mind when i think office enviroment. Dare i ask what the fate is of the old system?

Morning Icy Low Fog.

Good morning- Enjoying first cup from my Spartan mug, while reading about tomorrow's clash in Columbus. All while listening to Mike Masse's "Something" album on the wife's Klipsch "Heritage" iGroove SXT hardwired to my Pono player. I highly recommend Mike Masse who came to my attention on this great forum. Mike's talent and story are extraordinary.

Watch it for the MILF.

Naming Winter Storms = Hyping Weather as News

Good evening gang Productive day on this end, Mr Gopher is now operational, (Mailbox Alarm). that resides on the kitchen table. Over thanksgiving i will attack the mailbox post/mount with Sawsall and proceed to modify. Fully expect Gladys Cravites beaming out her window throughout the project. Bay goodies showing up, today it's the Laser package, 10pieces for $4.50, a little R&D and then proceed to improve someone else's patent. Wife is up to something, currently eating MANFOOD, Cheese Scalloped Potatos, BBQ Chicken, Spinich, Reno was one of her options for thanksgiving, wonder if im being "Buttered up"? Well iv just been informed im out of the haggen-daz, i am dressed, so road trip.........

Happy Friday Y'all Not a thing Happening here, tested the boys Xmas present out this AM and it survived the shipping Pulled the switch head off the ringer washer I am somewhat restoring for camper use, totally gummed up with 67 year old grease. Soaking in a couple gallons of diesel as I type Hoping that will soften up the grease without peeling the original paint off, slap some new grease on the gears and get the wheels turning Later

Morning..... Rolling out....2nd cup to go..... Check-in-later... Happy Friday to all.... MKP :-)

You've led a sheltered life. It's a meteorological term, right Sancho? :-)

Huh? Sorry, I'm slow ----

That's what I tell my wife - the "weatherman" must go to acting school to make even the most mundane forecast sound like the world coming to an end. Can't hardly stand to watch any of them although the station managers must know this as they have started putting some lookers/bodies on to attract/keep more of an audience. Put all the news people in a bag and shake it up, they all fall out the same. News readers is all they are, few true journalists. And I love the term "anchor". What do you do for a living "we'll I'm a news anchor". Like all anchors, throw 'em overboard.

hmmmm....scalloped potatoes and spinach. take her to Reno Mark. It’s the biggest little city in the world if you haven’t heard.

Funny but crap i think i started something.

No likes for that, sorry dude, don't want to hear that. not even a like, Then an unlike?

There are not many I'd care to go see nowadays. However, if Alice Cooper came to town...

retirement (again) sounds nice; but, i have to get my spending problem under control. i like to buy stuff--but in my defense, a guy needs slot machines, street lights, amplifiers, and guitars.

Afternoon gang Being retired is one thing, Feeling retired is better, after a couple cups of coffee and CCC thread this morning, went for a Nap, not EVEN coffee tells me what to do anymore. Im thinkin a Costco Polish Dog and an IPA sound pretty good, second thought, make that in the morning. Kind of waiting to see what is coming in today, china post suprises me daily. Warmed to 70, amazing!

The center is a screen. The buttons on either side are real buttons.

I was at Sam's Club last night, where I was handed a flyer for the PRE Black Friday sale. All I know is I will spend hours of my time reading reviews and researching ways to save ten bucks on a tool for my son's Christmas gift.

Your like a mad scientist at work, as long as your using your powers for good were safe. This is a hobby, when i was 10 dad woud drop me at a surplus store of my choice, money was never a problem, what i wanted was always a problem. Hobbys take a back seat to getting through working life, this i have done, now the hobby rules again. Had no internet as a kid, now i have it made. Hobby is at least paying for itself, cant say that about speakers!

Your like a mad scientist at work, as long as your using your powers for good were safe.

Please, tell me you’ll miss me. I won’t tell the governor, i promise. Been to Reno and Tahoe many times...Tahoe is absolutely beautiful.

Been going to Reno for 23 years, couple times a year, as of last year, we are property owners. One year 7 months to go in this chit hole state. by then we will have a home there, somewhere.

But I liked it even though I didn't "like" it.

You're not the first.

I think i know who unliked me...well played brother!

I get to a point where I just decide to walk outside and get "infinite" resolution...

Welcome to the forum, "likesitloud" You have many options on powering your system. The very 1st thing others need to know is your goal, budget and location. You have stumbled into something great, for pennies. Let's do this Matt

Commericals on TV with Christmas Music--ALREADY. Dammit wait a couple of weeks

Best viewing distance I have is 10 feet. That means at least a 75" UHD. Not in my price range yet. My 65" plasma will take me across to a full wall, stick to the wall OLED I hope. Dave

Ouch! Sorry to hear that.

Two channel, stereo vs. multi-channel or home theater. You have center channel speakers at your disposal, and the fronts, and the rears for that matter, so I thought you may want to try that. If not, at least you have more value in each of those center speakers than you spent on the whole shebang. Quite a windfall, you're one of the lucky ones. As to what to choose, you'll probably be limited to used gear, of the two channel variety, or a mid to high tier AVR (even for stereo use). You shouldn't have to spend much to get busy with the music. Peruse your local craigslist and let us know what's available. Academy centers are in demand here, so you may get lucky with a forum member who wants to swap an old receiver they have lying around for it (start a thread in the garage sale forum).

Welcome to the forums, Come back and post often

Id like to see a clearer picture of the seal material installed please. Are you planning on making bracing kits? Cornwall version?

Before you turn the 4K TV on shut the furnace off. JJK

It's only money guys...if you are like me you'd just do something stupid with the extra cash.

All this is to say: the term "x-curve" is not appropriate for HT...and roll-offs of HF in HT-sized rooms has probably got a lot more to do with badly mastered music and perhaps even too-hot movie soundtrack than it does in terms of psychoacoustics, as Toole and Eargle have pointed out. The BBC curve is another issue that I'll leave alone here, other to say that it was tied to a "boo-boo" in a certain BBC monitor design in terms of polar control and vertical separation of the midrange vs. tweeter. Chris

If i'm ever travelling through Texas and need to take a shower...

Good "late" morning once again Wife served up a great Bacon/Bagle/Egg spread, her Ks are cranked. Me, im playin with "The Chip" and like iv said, the quality of this chip blows me away. That being said as you can see in the lower left corner of this chip is the condenser Mic, the way you input sound. What iv now found by messin around is, the chip is "Quality" the condenser Mic is $0.3 cents. And there is my new challange, (re-work-re-introduce a better signal) I love nothing better than a good bench problem(s) No fear in playing around with these things because at the price per unit, i always buy two/three. So if/when i fry it, no big deal......Fun.

I have a manual screen and pull it down over the TV when I want some big screen action. I hung it from the ceiling so it would clear the TV... Wall mounting was a bit close. I would rather get an electric and a 4k projector, but this was my "cheap" step 1 and it sounds like what you are doing. IMO, with your room being dark you don't have to worry about high dollar screens or getting a light cannon. That screen Scrappy listed is probably fine. The projector is easily decided by what you want to spend. $800.00 BenQ 1070 is probably the best sub 1k HT projector. The Panny 8000 for $1,700.00 and then you jump up in price to the Epson, Sony, and JVC...$2,000.00 and beyond. My biggest problem was running the cables. I bought the Sony that has the IR 3d so I had to run HDMI, Power and an Cat 5/6 cable for the IR extender. I split my signal also and send it to another TV in the back of the room, but the splitter has to be taken off when I watch 3d. Order your cables and projector mount beforehand...running to Best Buy and other Brick and Mortor stores can end up costing you a bunch. Just shooting you a couple of my own lessons learned and suggestions.

Oh my.

Last night, I saw Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band. It was a great show. The keyboard player was Greg Rollie from Santana, one guitarist was Steve Lukather (5-time Grammy winner) from Toto and the other guitarist was Todd Rundgren. Richard Page, the singer from Mr. Mister played bass, the percussion/sax player was Warren Ham, of Bloodrock and Kansas, and the second drummer was Greg Bissonette. At first, I wondered why a second drummer was needed, but it was because Ringo was down in front at centre stage singing about half the time. The band did some of Ringo's old Beatles songs, along with some of his new ones, and each band member did a few of the songs he was famous for. Steve Lukather accompanied Greg Rollie on Evil Ways, Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen and Oye como va, and he sounded as good as Carlos Santana. All the players were good, but Steve impressed me the most. Unlike the rock concerts from many years ago that started 45 minutes late, this started just after its scheduled time of 8 pm and finished at 10 pm. I guess the old guys on stage and in the audience don't have time to mess around anymore. Yes, many in the audience had totally white hair. It made me feel a bit young. I remembered seeing lots of older folks the last time I saw Pink Floyd, then I realized that was back in 1994, and we've all aged since then.

Travis, I like the idea but my Revox is a 1/2 track slow speed. I sold the 4 track fast speed a while back. Jay