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Good way of stating it, like finding the right house. Some like the Klipsch sound some like the B&W sound. Some like contrast of Plasma some like brightness punch of LCD. Wanted a projector for years but they were too dim and did not have enough contrast compared to 52" Sony LCD Panel TV. When Epson 6010 came out that was no longer the case. Bright enough to watch with some ambient day light in the room, enough contrast to enjoy Harry Potter movies when dark. Only down side is manual focus and zoom, but I can live with that versus $$$ to obtain a unit as bright with enough zom to fill 100" screen from under 11 feet.

Not wstrickland1, indyhawg or videophile but in my room 2D blacks are as black room/ambient light/screen will allow. I am sure someone with meter will say it is not completly black but for sports and most movies blacks are black and there is good shadow detail. Watching Duke vs. Miami right now, lots of detail in Miami uniforms, dark gray to black on the close ups. We have a new 50" plasma in the same room, plasma has higher contrast ratio and "deeper blacks" but I prefer the brightness and punch of the Epson 6010.

Not to rain on anyone's parade (buying gear is fun), but I see a BR as a transport. It gets the bits off onto HDMI. Since I wouldn't use the DACs or any of the fancy stuff, I use a $130 Sony. If it breaks, I'll buy another. It's going to be obsolete within 5 years anyway. I agree most Blu-ray players are transports, but BDP-105 can be used both as a Processor and DAC with better results than most High Processors and DACs. Purchase: BDP-105 -$1,200 Sold: McIntosh MX-132 +$1,250 Bel Canto DAC3 +$1,325 $+250 Did not need to purchase Transport level Blu-ray and cables for wife's room, she has to struggle with Oppo BDP-95. = +$2,825 more cash plus better performance using fewer cables and less cabinet space! Not possible with $200 Transport.

Posting Picks of the ladies in their new home is alway popular.

Both 2 Channel music and 5.1 movies sound awsome with tubes. Trick is getting the right amps and tubes in a good system. Solid State can sound great also trick is getting the right amp in a good system. The main reason I like tubes is by changing the brand of tube the sound can tweaked to my system and personal preferance rather than what the designer thought my room is like and what I like. Some say tubes lack bass, that is based early McIntosh amps etc., VRD amps do not lack bass and have more bass then my neson pass Adcom Solid State amps.

Projector - Go 80" + New ones are cheap and bright enough to watch football with some lights on. Get a new woven screen and put the center channel behind the screen.

3 VRDs LCR, MC-240 for the Rears. Concert videos are incredable, movies are also great. When we were shopping projectors a salesman took us into a theater with $50,000 of audio and asked my nine year how it sounded. "Not as good as ours" was his reply. Voice out the centet channel is a big chunk TV/Sports.

With a similar setup and electronic skill set - used stereophile test CD and Radioshack meter until the graphed values looked good. Make sure to add coorection factors for meter that you use.

So hard to choose Tears of Endearment or High School Musical.

+1 Unless the room has a really stange shape, get the room right and let sound come out with any "processing". Set the trim and cross over and call it a day.

In a small-ish closed room, with the fortes corner loaded, a mere two watts will do the trick. The bass remains surprisingly tight with corner loading of forte's. Forte IIs were my first klipsch, used them in four diferent houses. 10 -12 inches from both the rear and side walls is the first thing to get right for the bass out put. Try moving them around an inch or two at time until they sound right. I had Adcom pre and 5500 amp. Bass could either be all most zero or shake fillings loose depending on speaker placement relative to the corners. They can great sound givin a good source and amps, a lot closer to La Scalas & Khorns than most that have owned two of three would admit. Best bang for the buck speaker I have ever heard.

Mounting the mid horns on top of cabinet can solve vertical sound stage. Look at Indyfan's posts.

The mid horn rings on stock horns. Warm amps or Tractrix horns or both can solve the problem.

No hair since 89'

No lip sync issues in my set up with the Oppo 95. Much better than the pioneer. Same disks that had issues on the Pioneer have no isues on the Oppo. . .

Tried 4 differt horns, all sounded different but as far as "imaging" crossovers had more of an impact than horns. (Assuming room has refections under control)

Used search function on AVS. There was an issue with Lip Sync, but new Firmware has resolved the issue. Oppo BDP-95 is on order. Chrismas money, ALK universal sale proceeds and few bucks of this months spending money. . .

If this is taller? And more narrow than a La Scala? This would give narrow roomed poeple more options.

Thanks. So I should keep my DAC and iPad?

Any one using this for semi serious 2 channel?

Great advise as usual from AN. 74 pages, not posts, and nothing lip sync issues with oppo 95.

Great advise as usual from AN. 74 pages, not posts, and nothing lip sync issues with oppo 95.

Is this a known phenomena with the BDP-95 or are you just making sure that is not the case? My Oppo BDP-83 is hooked up to my NAD T773 receiver via 5.1 analog and I have never had the mentioned lip sinc issues. It sounds incredible with music and movies. Bill No it is not known. When my Elite Pioneer sends the video out HDMI and the audio to processor there is an issue but there is adjustment to correct the issue.

Read it, understand it, and believe what you said. I am looking for someone that has a BDP-95 and can confirm there are no lip sinc issues when using the analog outs.

Looking to start a debate.