Petrol

I know when I made my custome stand, I didn't take into proper consideration the height of center channel speakers that I would look at as upgrades... my slot is unfortunately about 1/4" to short to accomadate an RC-7 :\

they're selling the Referance Series at Best Buy?

:eek smoking deal

If only I had $2k and a few days to make the trip....

both are to far for me to consider picking up :\

WTG... I hate scammers

Very interesting! I don't know if I can make it but I really enjoy the way y'all step out from behind the keyboards and get together

Does Klipsch have anything in the works... perhaps a nice docking station similar to the iGroove HG with a built in charger, remote and of-couse, awesome speakers? . . . with about a max accustical output closer to the pro-media 2.1 system I have connected to my pc

to all those whosay folks who get out in the super early hrs of 'black-friday' are nuts.. well, if I had your money... anyway, I left the house @ 4:15 (about an hr & 1/2 earlier then I usually do when heading for work) and jumped on the back of a 2000+ person line at BB... yep, you can call me nuts, but I wasn't after one of the 12 available 50" plasma sets... I was only after a Samsung 931W 19" widescreen monitor for $129 (reg $250) and a 1GB thumbdrive... they opened the doors at 5:00 AM sharp and at 5:10 AM I was walking back to my Expedition which I parked in front of the Home Depot with my goodies in hand... I immediately jumped on line at Home Depot... they opened the doors at 5:30 AM and I picked up a Dewalt 18v cordless drill for $99 (reg $190) and was back in my Expedition by 5:40 AM... I then drove to Staples, got on the end of a 150+ person line... they opened the doors at 6:00 AM, I picked up another Samsung 931W 19" widescreen monitor, a 1 GB thumbdrive, a power strip and a paper shreader and was back at home by 6:10 AM A pretty easy morning of shopping that saved me hundreds of dollars.... even on my meger little purchases

do you have any PICs?

wtf, over, LOL I'm finally, actually narrowing down my wish list to either a Yamaha RXV-2600 (possibly a RVX-1600), a Harmon-Kardon AVR745 (possibly a AVR 645) , or a Denon 3807 (possibly a 4307). . . and due to the features, the specs, the reviews and personal recommendations I've read and/or recieved, I'm leaning towards the Yamaha with the HK as second choice

I have used both and couldn't tell a differance so I just use what I have on hand

whenever i load my cd player in my car, truck or suv, it's almost always with mp3 source material . . . with the ambient noise provided in the oving car, I've never heard a differance

I love my Harmony 880

is that asking price "shipped"?

I also have Polk's and, of course Klipsch. The 5 Polks (old monitors with the 7" woofer & 1" silk dome) were moved from my living room system to a tiny room with a sony HTIB as replacements for the sorry tiny speakers that came with it after I bought my Klipsch... I like my Klipsch better but then the Polk Monitors are not in the same league as Polk LSi series either...

only if your talking about "Real" wpc, instead of the "marketing" wpc... see my post above . . .

well, my sony 'claims' to do 110 wpc too []

you kidding? That helps alot! I had seen consumption ratings many before and never paid them any mind, lol Thanks [] off to the websites, lol

:\ I wonder how in the heck I did that ^^^

Thanks for your reply Dr., I guess I should maybe go with first things first... I'm wanting to send my current sony str de995 from my small 17' x 14' living room to my tiny 14' x 10' men's club and replace it with something that will be able to really kick out some multi channel volume when I toss in music dvds. It does "ok" for movie, but that's only because my wife seems to think that movie sound tracks and dioluge are meant for 'background-entertainment', lol I would most likely be going with a mass market AVR, my 'short' dream list includes Denon 3806, Yamaha RX-V2600 & HK635... being a little more realistic, I may back down to maybe a lesser Yamaha, denon, Pioneer or ???? I most likely would make the purchase, if there will be one, at the local Best Buy / Curcuit City... the only dedicated home audio stores around here that I found only have the stuff that is out of my range in stock and I wouldn't expect them to order something in unless I'm committed to buying it. I guess I'm ignorant to Best Buy's 30 day return policy... Don't they charge a 15% 're-stocking' fee on returned electronics? If not, Yahoo!, lol until you find one that satisfies your cravings. If your local audio store I would talk to the sales dude and see if you can't get him to let you bring home gear to demo. and yes, I think the numbers that sony is putting up, at least in the case of my current str-de995, is to advertise the maximum output for only one channel being driven at a time []

I choose to make my own 'High-Mass' stands, each of which weighs in at only about 40 lbs, but with a pretty low center of gravity (25 lbs of cast iron hidden in each base) to add as much tip resistance as I cheaply could for my RB-35s. I'm not at home and can't remember the height but I'm thinking they are about 28" high... I didn't want the tweeters at ear level when seated, I wanted them a bit higher to compromise for listening while standing

anyway, with all this talk about amp ratings, does anyone have any links to some 'Bench-Tests' showing what these things 'really' deliver?

ceiling speakers may work fine for surround, but there is no way I would recommend them for mains...

I don't really have 'room' for separates in my current equipment stand, which I built I'm just begining a mild kitchen remodel that involves new counter tops, sink, flooring and demolishing one wall to 'open-up' into the existing dinning room... I'm not excited about the idea of taking on the construction of a new stand right now And, I really don't think the sony is putting out anything near an honest 100 wpc.... more like 60-70 wpc in two channel mode and maybe 30-40 wpc in 7.1 surround... I'm hoping that one of these spiffy 'High-Current' recievers rated at 120 wpc x 7, that I can pick-up for a reasonble amount and drop in my current stand, will provide what I want. If not, I'll have to tolorate the sony for quite a while longer...