bobdog

Don't think I've ever seen one. Your cheapest watt/dollar amps are going to be pro-amps. They don't have built in eq but they're a great value. Actually many do have built in EQ. The Crown XTIs for example even though they are a poor choice for a sub amp due to low output at low frequencies. Crest Pro Lite, Peavey IPR DSP, and the Behringer NU1000DSP may be worth a look.

I built my Danley DTS10s into a wall. They work just fine. The wall is not your average wall. I put enough material into it to make 3 or 4 walls the same size. I have no rattles or even vibrations. It is such a pain to post photos here I will just give the address for my build thread on AVS. http://www.avsforum.com/t/1300605/bobs-media-room

My 1201s came with the 5way posts. My 12 VBs came with screw terminal strips. You can kind of see them in this pic.

I wouldn't sweat the whole Xcurve thing. The specs on the 8001 say 3db down at 17khz. The spec for your current heresy is worse. I use the 1201s for my rear surrounds and I am very happy. I looked into the whole Xcurve thing before I bought and it just confused me. No way these speakers have a 3db per octave roll off starting at 2khz. I think I would hear that but who knows. I do occasionally listen to 5.1 music with my KPT 12-VB sides and they match my K horns just fine.

I looked up the manual for your Bluray player with google. Pages 34 and 35 have the info you need. Go to the players menu and set digital output to PCM. Depending on what your DAC will do you may also need to set PCM down sampling to a bitrate your DAC will accept. Also set the Downmixing mode to normal stereo as on page 36 of the manual.

The chip may not be the most important thing in a DAC. There are good and bad DACs made with any of the chips you listed. What inputs do you need? If USB async is very important. The best converters I have heard have all been firewire.

I think the mods are worthwhile. I would not go back, but I have the stock stuff in the storage room and everything is completely reversible.

You're concerned with something that doesn't even exist in an electrical circuit, or by technical definition. I highly encourage you to use a multimeter and stop fussing over "watts". You're wireless receivers will not blow your Heresy speakers. They will be just fine....even at war volume. Too little power does ruin drivers when the amp clips. Usually the tweeters. An amp that clips at 20 watts will damage a Heresy if pushed beyond clipping.

I have to disagree with most here and say that I believe you are underpowered to all channels. You have some great speakers give them a little love and feed them well.

You get what you pay for. My work did the whole crushed asphalt thing in their yard and by far the plain old road base they replaced was better. Maybe look into a asphalt driveway actually done properly with a paver. It will be cheaper than concrete.

When you put the drivers onto the Fastracs did you use new gaskets? With fastacs the gaskets should be omited. No need for them and they restrict the throat. The bug screens may also be removed. Really? I will pull them out and see what happens. Here is a thread where I asked about the gaskets in my Trachorns. http://community.klipsch.com/forums/p/161715/1720901.aspx#1720901 Note the post from the maker of the fastracs.

When you put the drivers onto the Fastracs did you use new gaskets? With fastacs the gaskets should be omited. No need for them and they restrict the throat. The bug screens may also be removed.

If you plan to use it with USB you may want to reconsider. The USB input is adaptive not asynchronous. It also only does 16/44 from USB. The other issue is the loss of resolution when using the digital volume control. If your uses don't include the need for usb then it looks like a very well built unit for the price.

KPTs rock and the VB models have two skewed horns to eliminate the different response from row to row. Good value too.

I run 2 DTS10s. You really need to measure. My PEQ settings for a flat response ended up being quite different than the Danley suggestions. Be sure to incorporate the hipass filter as suggested however.

Yep, really bad dimensions for sound. I would probably fill the recesses completely full of bass trapping material.

This misses the whole point of the BDP-95. If you are going to just play the SACD, DVD-A, or even CD using a HDMI connection through your AVR, of course you will not hear any difference from a cheaper player. I and many others use a dedicated 2 channel preamp for 2 channel listening and it does sound much better than using the HT pre/pro via a HDMI input. If ones system is set up the way mine is a player with better converters and better analog output section may very well be worth the added expense. I believe one of the biggest improvements any HT enthusiast who enjoys listening to music in the theater is to place a good analog preamp with HT bypass mode into their system.

It changed a while ago. 256 is now an option.

You can rip everything into iTunes lossless and then check a box so that Itunes will automatically convert all the files to 256 when you copy them to your iPod. It works great and you have the best of both worlds.

If they have the CDs they should be ripped lossless, AIFF or WAV. Storage is cheap now.

Onkyos support was terrible several years ago when I bought my Integra 9.8. I hope it has improved but I doubt it. My unit was DOA right out of the box. My dealer did not stock them so we had to wait for Onkyo to ship one. I waited 6 yes 6 months. The unit has worked great ever since but I will never buy another Onkyo. I read many other stories like mine on the HT forums at the time. Mine was not an isolated incident. They absolutely refused to give any assistance to current owners with firmware updates that were added to later production to solve real and sometimes very serious issues. My opinion is they are not a good company. They are a bad company that makes a very good value product if it works, but it could be a crap shoot.

Why can you not see that happening? Lets say for example someone has the entire Judas Priest or maybe Scorpions catalog in their library taken from the original early CDs at a low bitrate. If they replace it with the stuff off of the cloud it will now be the unlistenable remasters only at a higher bitrate. It is kind of like selling off originals and buying remasters with out knowing if the new one is better or not, and we all made that mistake. An other analogy is that there are red book CDs that can sound better than the SACDs. I am not a fan of MP3 type compression, and I do not listen to it ever, but If I did I would rather have well mastered music at 120 than poorly mastered music at 250.

I would want to be very careful because you may delete a preferred mastering only to replace it with a higher bitrate copy of a truly awful brick walled mess. If I had any compressed song files(I don't) I would rather have a 128 uncompressed (dynamics wise) file than a brick walled losless one.

The thought has crossed my mind. I actually ran enough speaker wire to run all three front speakers active three way.

Not going to happen. My screen and the wall behind it stays. I know it is unbelievable that I don't want a lascala built in to my wall even if it was possible (it isn't). I want the speakers in the room. . My point was only that there is a market for at least one vertical cornwall or similar heritage matching center speaker.