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Thought this may interest anyone in the New England area. http://providence.craigslist.org/ele/364173925.html If I had the money I would consider it.

LMC-1 & LPA-1 arrived today, my roommate and I hooked it up (took about 90 minutes) but am having issues with the HDMI switcher right now. If we hooked up the cable box directly to the tv things are fine, but running it through the switcher no picture. Guess have to call Emotiva after work tomorrow and get this issue fixed. Also had an issue of a loud hum coming out of all the speakers, get solved that switching some plugs around. I hope to have some pictures once things are up and running which should be tomorrow.

I couldn't resist and placed my order last night. I wasn't sure how much longer the free shipping would last so decided might as well buy it now instead of potentially pay more later. On top of it my roommate is going to help hook it up so it won't be as bad doing it by myself. This weekend I am going to get another HDMI cable and some RCA's so I am all set come next week. I will try to post pictures if I can and keep you guys updated on how it sounds. Once again thanks for all the help. Shane

Yeah its going to be a tough wait, but with me moving to a new place and trying not to strain the budget too much I will have to put it off until at least June. My current speakers will do just fine for now. Any good places online to buy RCA cables to connect from the amp to the processor?

Thanks Chris, I was looking at the manuals online and it seems like I can manage to hook it up. I think I am going to go ahead and buy it and just not hook it up until I move into my new place with my current speakers. Looks like this summer it will be time to go speaker shopping, I just hope that where ever I live its big enough to handle the RF-82's.

Another question about the Emo, once everything is hooked up to the pre/pro all I had to do is run a HDMI cable to my tv and I should be all set?

I guess what it comes down to is that I would want to get the best sound out of my speakers within a budget and the Emo UL probably can provide that. Granted it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the 2807, some of which are probably great and many of which I would never use. The only downside I see with the Emo UL is setting it up and adjusting the settings to match my speakers to maximize their potential, though to be honest I probably be happy even if didn't have the settings perfect. Once everything is set up, I just want to be able to turn on my tv and not have to mess around with a whole bunch of settings on the audio side, once I have it set up and I like what I hear I want to leave it like that. I guess the next few weeks I will have to decide which I am going to purchase, thanks for all the help.

Thanks James, it all makes sense now. Now I just need to make the hard choice of what to spend my money on.

I know this will sound stupid, but how do you hook up the speakers to it using speaker wire? The connections are different and doesn't seem like I could use the same speaker wire I use currently.

JetJockey that seems interesting considering its within my price range, what exactly is the difference between this and say a Denon AVR-2807? If I understand correctly it does the same thing as a receiver but is it as user friendly (not that I have heard the Denon is a cakewalk either? Can I hook up my dvd player, cable box, video games, etc through it? Also can I plug it into a normal electrial outlet or does it require something else? I must say it looks impressive, but I don't want to get over my head and not be able to set it up properly or use it.

Looking around I saw a few options potentially: HK AVR 645 ($718) Pioneer Elite VSX-81TXV ($650-800) Pioneer Elite VSX-82TXV (a little under a $1000) I see a lot of Klipsch owner's use these receievers, I assume these would get the job done.

Thanks for all the help. I have decided that I am going to upgrade piece by piece as funds become available to RF-82's, RS-52's, and a RC-62 during the year. With that in mind I might as well start with the receiver as I need to get one anyways, though now my budget is no longer limited to $500ish or to Circuit City. I am not sure how much I should put towards a receiver, I was looking at a Denon AVR-2807 which is around $1,200 but do I really need to spend that much? Will this make a difference or would spending $800-1000 yield me similar results?

As of May I won't have a receiver, don't know if I can go two months without surround sound. Also will a HDMI 1.3 receiver be in my price range?

Hope you can help me out. A few months ago I purchased some speakers and got my HT up and running. The problem is I am moving out in soon and the receiver I am using is my roommates and it will be going with him once we move out. I have circuit city rewards points so I might as well use them and get a new receiver at CC. I would say my listening is 90% movies &10% music. My current setup is: Hitachi 50VF820 (has two HDMI slots) Fronts: SF-2 Center: SC-1 Rears: SB-2 Sub: SVS PB-10 Receiver: Pioneer VSX-D458 I am looking to spend around $400-500 and considered these receiver's that CC carries: Onkyo TX-SR604 Onkyo TX-SR674 Denon AVR787 Onkyo TX-SR703 Pioneer VSX1016TXVK To take into account is in a year or two I hopefully will be able to upgrade to Reference series speakers, but that's not for certain and shouldn't be a deciding factor on which receiver I should get. Hopefully you can help a new comer to the world of HT and steer me in the right direction.