HellSh0k

Hmmm, it seems to me that I may have found my own answer to my dilemma, but I still end up with a different question. How about a ProMedia Ultra 5.1 system with the satellites replaced and impedance matched with four RSX-5 and one RCX-4 and one SWS for under each of the RSX-5s and the main sub/amp nearest to the RCX-4 and the HDTV monitor? I know it is way over the top, but I love a challenge and this may be my new one. I would like to hear any feedback on this one. I know someone must have tried this already, and I would love to hear your results. I love simplicity and I think that this system controlled by my new computer's HD-Audio system should sound extremely impressive. I am open to any criticism or ideas to try this out.

I tried to post last night after I saw the message, but somehow the forums went down in the middle of my typing. I copied it out to save and here it is. Sorry if it doesn't make sense, I am disabled and it is petty hard to write on this much morphine. Do you have any specific media-type or format for me to make it into(SIZE matters)? I do it as a hobby so it doesn't bother me to alter it into a format to suit you, I know what it sounds like, just remember the limits/compression of any format. I'm not too sure if I want to let perfect originals go, not that I plan on geting paid for them, I just don't want issues over anyone elses copyrighted bits/samples that have been manipulated by me. I try to stay out of trouble that way, but I have aproximately 450GB of samples from microphone recordings that I captured on micro-cassette to anything and everything from anywhere and anyone that I have compiled over the years. My last effort is INSANE to say the least, but it is basically a "one hour studio mix programmed electronically across a 64 channel application with lots of manipulaion and effects" saved as an LARGE MP3(320kbits/sec, about 150Mb)while I was pushing samples and adding noises on the fly. It is considered "Freeform/TranceCore" and hovers around 180BPM and I haven't really named it, but it should be labeled "EarEquipmentBeware"(not a bad title, on my drive its called "test!"). I have played it on a 150,000 watt(no kidding)Turbosound HILIGHT system at a rave and I can tell you the reaction was incredible,it is basically flat(most rave setups are for vinyl not a computer, so it needed to be able to be tweeked for full effect), it was run through that monster system and I was the "tweeker" for the recording but most of the tweeking was done post process on Pioneer DJM-600 mixer and EFX-1000 performance effector. OK enough said, I can convert it into almost any format, but I am also in the middle of a 4 drive 1TB RAID-10 build to move all my samples and projects off of all my different types of storage into 1 massive structure(way easier to move and use bits and pieces). I do not feel like cutting it into pieces, as I LOVE IT and think that if you want to hear it you need to listen to it ALL. It is a beautiful piece of artwork, and I am not looking for a review on it, everyone has opinions and I am not going to go into detail on any of the samples or how and what I used to do it(way too many samples and lots of manipulation was done). THIS IS NOT FOR EVERYONE, AND I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANYTHING! AND I MEAN ANYTHING! p.s. I would love to give it a whirl on a SUPER hi-end Klipsch commercial setup (I love the sound of horn loaded speakers) if anyone has access.

Interesting question, I normally make the music I like to show off. I have been making electronic music with lots of different programs, I would call it writing but i cant read music. Any form of FULL spectrum electronic music, or what most people call "techno" has been my choice to brutalize any amplifier/speaker combo I have ever purchased. It makes all the shortcomings of any piece of audio equipment show itself (normally faster than any other type of music) to the listener. That said it gives your audio equipment "a workout like nothing it has seen before." Kind of like orchestrated pink/white noise. Amplifiers can either handle it or start clipping or catch fire, and its always harder to play 20-20Khz than only parts of the spectrum. Speakers' cones, voicecoils, and enclosures have been known to FAIL in all sorts of ways when they aren't well designed or manufactured well(I have thrown many a VC,torn surrounds and oh ya FUSING VOICE COIL TO POLE on cheap setups). As far as I have ever seen, without a good combo of amp/speaker you lose audio information and witness degredation of sound and/or the equipment. You can go through all this without electronic music it just takes longer to find the shortcomings of your "hardware," it just would take a good long time to listen to a collection of music to put equipment through the test. I can do in one 5 minute program, what it would take a normal listener their whole collection to be able discern and evaluate their equipment. Dont get me wrong I love MUSIC, everything from classical organworks to punk/speed metal/industrial to opera and beyond, but when its time to show off and really enjoy music, I sit in front of a computer that is set up with a HeadRoom Total BitHead and IEM(in ear monitors) and music creation application of my liking and make what I enjoy. After that I can put it onto any type of media (whatever it needs to be on for input to anyone's system) and "workout" the system, and dance around with a grin from ear to ear!!! Basically a 5 minute set of my programming and I can fall in love or totally destroy a set of speakers, and that too makes me grin more. I know I am new to the forums, but I have been a audiophile for many years. After reading all of these posts and seeing so many different lists(most of ALL listed I have sampled at some point), I just had to say something. I like all the lists and if I havent heard any of them, I will be hunting new stuff down for sampling as I am always looking for more notes/tones/noises to fill my ears.

I have been using my Klipsch v2.400 since before they made it big in the multimedia/computer world originally attached to a Aureal Vortex SQ2500(the baddest sound card ever made for gaming) which has now died. The only issue I have ever had (and I got the CP-1 after it was brought out these original speakers still ROCK by the way!!!!) was the lack of aux input/headphone volume control. Well I would like to build my new system as awesome as i can, and in my search to have the best, I am drawn back to my fav's Klipsch. Now I have been building computers for way too many years and NOW they bring out HI-DEF Audio.....I have a dream, but I come to find out more of a nightmare that all the coolest pieces to add to have the best, are DISCONTINUED!!!! The dream was ProMedia Ultra 5.1, DD5.1, 4x SWS.....I may have to start buying other pieces to start upgrading Klipsch speakers and crossovers to build what COULD be an absolutely amazing set-up. Could anyone imagine a Promedia Ultra subwoofer attached to 4 SWS for bass and 5 rebuilt ProMedia Ultra 2.0 as satellites and maybe a DD5.1 or its succesor thrown in for good measure....I CAN and I would be willing to pay for that system. If anyone is interested I'll share the specs on the new system (over the top as usual). It is only my "Media Center Base" and is about 10X your top-of-the-line "Gateway Media Center PC", not for the broke or timid. It is gonna change the way my family and I do everything. From watching TV, computer gaming, etc. a whole new world in EDUTAINMENT. What a rant, well if anybody has access to DD5.1s and SWSs, I will be hunting these down soon. Unless Klipsch happens to bring out the future in multimedia systems with all the add-on bells and whistles... Welcome to the FUTURE of entertainment!!!!