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quote: Originally posted by OuTpaTienT: In fact, you shouldn't even be listening to music, you're not qualified.

awesome! damn, 10-15k on a HT. i could have a lot of fun with that much money to spend on a HT!

upgrading the wires won't help the crackling any. that problems lies within the preamp. to upgrade your wires, just buy any 16 gauge wire. and 4 solderless gold mono connectors from radio shack. from there, it's pretty much self explanitory. just attach connectors to the wire and your set.

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i had the v2-400, but the lack of and colored mids disappointed me very much. i upgrade the wiring, and wow! much clearer! the colored/brightened mids are mostly gone, but because of this, the lack of them became even more apparent. a lot more than i noticed before sold the v2-400 and got the promedia 4.1's... what a difference. the mids are more pronounced, but overall the speakers still sound a bit dark. when listening to music, it just sounded lacking. and for some reason, the 4.1 sub seemed boomier than the v2-400 sub. nothing that the bass knob couldn't fix, but the lows were still inaccurate and muddy. replaced the sat's with quintet sats, and i was amazed by the clarity of the highs. but the mids were lacking - muddy and a dark spot in the low-mids. still sounded horrible for music. for sale go the quintets, for sale go the 4.1's! purchased a speaker/subwoofer combo by Acoustic Energy (audiophile company). what do i think of them? let's just say this: everytime i listen to these speakers, a tear of joy runs down my cheek the promedia's are great speakers for movies and games. unfortunately, they aren't the greatest for music listening. and music listening is all i use them for, so these speakers weren't for me i guess.

i hate those environments. they just mess up the music. and playcenter takes up more resources than winamp.

quote: Originally posted by VIV: so are the Gforce 3's, and when they DO meet up with a more appropriate market for them, doubters will be silenced. people said the same thing about the GeForce when it came out. With it's hardware T&L. people said, "it's just ahead of it's time, just wait until software the uses hardware T&L comes out....then the GF will really shine!" well....that was over a year ago, and how many optimize games have come out? About 3. not only that, but since the GeForce3 came out, it uses a new Programmable T&L......hehe....that means the original GF and GF2 is already obsolete because programmers are only going to be programming for the GF3's Programmable T&L. Intel has tried this with the MMX....never caught on. Then AMD tried with with 3dnow! which works very well.....never really caught on. Nvidia tried it with T&L...hardly got any support. 3dfx tried it with their Z-Buffer...nada. Intel then tried it with SSE.....never really caught on. Nvidia is trying it again with the new type of T&L. and Intel again with SSE2 in the P4...hm... if it does catch on, it also benefits AMD since they will be using SSE2 also

quote: *sigh* While the T-birdz beat the holy hell outta the P4's in most benches, you also have to realize that those benches the T-birdz are beating the P4's on are not optimized for P4 use. While I hate to say it, cause I prefer AMD over Intel, in about a year, when software is out that WILL take advantage of the P4's architecture, everyone will be singing a different tune, because the P4 should handily beat out its competition, unless AMD's next gen cpu's have more punch to them. also realize that those benches are not optimized for Athlon's either (3dnow!) that's what people use to say with the AMD k6-2/k6-III line, because of the it's horrible fpu, amd relied on 3dnow to make up for it. when you say "taking advantage of p4's architecture," what you really mean is thep4's SSE2 instructions. intel totally ignored FPU in the p4's architecture, and is relying on software to be optimized for SSE2 to get some good performance out of the p4. (sound familiar? *cough*k6-2*cough*) AMD's next processor, the palomino, which will be coming out this summer will also have SSE2 instructions, so.....

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awesome! i know! i know! please send $500 via paypal to kev827@home.com thanks!

strange. compared the my old v2-400, i found that quintets have much more clarity, the mid range was actually there (although, still lacking a little compared to more expensive speakers...but had way more than the promedias), and the highs weren't as harsh as the pro's.

quote: Originally posted by jealousy: i've just come to realize how bad horn speakers sound and how much of a lack of midrage promedias have. hehe, same here. well actually i like the horn tweeters. but when i changed the wires to 16 gauges, it seemed to get rid of the colored or brightened sound of the midrange with the old v.2-400's. and it made the speakers sound clearer over all, it was a very noticable difference. my room mate also noticed. but since it cleared up the colored midrange, it made the lack mids very apparent! like i hadn't noticed before.....so i sold my old promedia's

and why doesn't the 2.1 have BASH?

sliding it in from the front?

people in the anandtech forums think that the reason that klipsch is selling the 4.2 system for $299 is because they are overstocked with the 2.1's therefore; the special price of the 4.2's for $299 isn't that hot of a deal because the 4.2's are just a pair 2.1's which aren't selling well so klipsch is overstocked with them. since they're not selling well, the 4.2's aren't as good as the 4.1's that's what a few of those people are thinking

i did that before i even hooked up my promedia's to the computer it works fine, but it's not as loud as on the computer.

oh ok, cool. that's exactly what i needed to know, thanks!

which do you think is better, distec? 60w sats and a 160w sub (actually 2 80w subs in one), or 35w satts and two 130w subs?

nope, don't see a seal of any sort.

quote: Originally posted by fawwaz: I forgot to ask did you buy from klipsch online store directly or from some other vendor? online store

quote: Originally posted by The Rocker: Someone couldn't resist! They swiped your 4.1's and had to put something in the box! Another compliment to Klipsch! ROCK ON !

ROCK ON!!!!!

it wasn't delivered to my dorm. it was delivered to my house, and my mom signed it! i hope my mom didn't steal them