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I think the first Lynch Mob CD was Wicked Sensation - which I liked a lot. Sacred Groove was George's "solo" album - which I wasn't too crazy about. I'll have to check out this new project. I saw Lynch Mob perform at a small theater once. It was very cool. Original Dokken drummer (Mick Brown?) was part of the band. Probably the biggest drummer I've veer seen.

The RSW-12's active driver is on the back side and the RT-12s active driver is on the front. Several other Reference subs (RW8, RW10, RW12 and the new RPW10, RW10d & RW12d) have a front port specifically for installing in cabinets, etc. With not much space around the subs and other components you essentially have two rooms - the main room and the small room behind the false wall. With any of the passive radiator or rear ported speakers you'll have some anomalies created by the fact they're not sharing the same air space. In your situation I think the THX subs are definitely your best bet.

The Integra Research piece is indeed no slouch. The one shortcoming I noted when testing one was that the maximum output was only 1v rms. Check your amps as this is not enough output to drive most amps to full power (even Integra Research's own amps - oops!). Most solid state amps require 1.2 - 1.5v rms.

If it's a great sounding system (which it is) then don't compress your audio files. Your iPod can handle uncompressed audio too.

Good info by the previous poster. Most power amps can be driven to full power by about 1.5Vrms. You can usually find this in most good amp specs. You'll want to make sure the preamp you choose can output at least that much voltage. I know of one instance where company X's big 7 channel power amp required about 1.4Vrms to reach its rated 200W output. Evidently the amp designer didn't tell the preamp designer because the surround processor/preamp from the same company only put out 1Vrms before it started to clip. This meant that with this >$7000 pair of components you could never reach maximum output of the amp! Brilliant.

I believe $350 each is correct so if you can get them online for $350 a pair order quick before they realize what they've done!

I've got a 1000W sub, 7x200W amplifiers + RPTV + preamp + DVD + HDTV box + CD changer + misc and have never tripped the breaker even when I left the basement and cranked the volume from upstairs (while my wife's crazy uncle stayed in there "to see how loud it will go"). Music and movies vary so much they should just never trip a breaker - although I'm sure someone will chime in that they've done it at some point.

---------------- On 4/19/2005 12:01:47 PM sunnysal wrote: no it is not simply class a/b, it runs current through the transistors at all times, so there is no crossover distortion like you get in class a/b circuits...tony ---------------- Yes, that's exactly what turning the bias up from class-B to class-AB does - keeps the transistors on just a little bit all the time thus eliminating the transistor turn on/turn off that creates the crossover distortion.

So then its what most people call class-AB. It's biased just past true class-B (as most amps are, BTW) so that maybe 1/2W to a few watts are class-A. This greatly reduces distortion at higher frequency which is where a true class-B design causes problems.

That's likely just a marketing term that made an engineer cringe. A Technics amp from the late 80's being any kind of real Class-A is certainly unlikely. And if it's not heavy and doesn't get very hot that will pretty much guarantee its not Class-A. Enjoy your find just don't brag to your audiophile friends about your new class-A amp.

Actually it's an RW-10 that's playing in the room at the end of the commercial. The one he carries out is labeled "R-8" but it's probably a relabeled RW-8 or RW-10 box.

The RVX-54 is most excellent. Highly recommended (even if there isn't a wife involved).

---------------- On 12/8/2004 11:45:55 AM Amy Unger wrote: That would be so GREAT! Where is this? I saw Gone with the Wind in a full theater in Bloomington Indiana, and wow, what a different experience than seeing it on a small TV. Nothing like it. ---------------- Right down the road in downtown Franklin, Indiana. Saw Viva Las Vegas there last year but skipped Gone with the Wind. Missed Monty Python's Holy Grail this summer - now that would've been fun (for the guys anyway).

I got to see A Christmas Story in a theater last weekend. It was a great time. A new reprint of the movie, restored 1920's theater, great popcorn, an audience of 200-300 people, and door prizes that included a bar of Life Buoy and a 20" leg lamp. The audience consisted of the 30 and up crowd that saw the movie in theaters when it originally came out (and many times since) and the younger group that may have never seen it (at least in a theater). It was so much fun to watch that classic of a funny movie with a big crowd that enjoyed every scene. That same theater is showing White Christmas this weekend and Christmas Vacation next.

---------------- On 11/22/2004 2:48:01 PM chipperooh wrote: My sugestion is to have a proactive team monitoring the net. ---------------- I think that is happening. Here's links to Klipsch press releases on the subject. I haven't heard of any other manufacturers going after illegal resellers as aggressively as Klipsch. http://www.klipsch.com/newscenter/press.aspx?cid=331 http://www.klipsch.com/newscenter/press.aspx?cid=322

Is "Live Without a Net" widescreen or 4:3? At least they offered it in DTS. I think VH "Live, Right Here, Right Now" is only stereo. I went to BB last week to buy several concert DVD's and only ended up with a couple because the discs were either not widescreen, not 5.1 or didn't say anything about audio and video formats (which I assume is always a bad sign). Why hasn't the industry come up with a standard way to label DVDs so we know what we're getting?

Zon was added at CEDIA last month. There's a press release in the News Center.

Both amps are non-inverting. Your phase difference between the two houses is being caused by main speaker/sub placement. You can try changing the phase at the speaker or move your sub around.

If I payed that kind of money for a disc player it better have high-resolution audio (DVD-A and/or SACD) and video coming out of it not 16 bit stereo. Wait, or find something better to spend your money on.

---------------- On 9/2/2004 8:52:46 AM gement81 wrote: db/1 watt @ 1 meter vs db/2.3 volts @ 1 meter? Which one is more sensitive? I was trying to compare the specs of my CF-1's vs the RF-35's and I am having a real hard time understanding which speakers are better. They both have sensitivity specs with different units. Would someone please care to elaborate on this and help me decipher these specs. ---------------- If it's an 8 ohm speaker then 1 watt equals 2.82 volts. That should give you a better apples to apples comparison. BTW, higher efficieny doesn't necessarily mean "better".

That's the back of the new RVX-42.

On the Stage One, yes. On the 28k, no.

Uhhh....I think he meant the new THX Ultra2 speaker system (you know, dual 12 inch subs, etc.) not the ProMedia Ultras. And yes, the Ultra2 setup will be fine for your size room.

Speakers don't hum on their own. It must come from the amp or some other component upstream. If its only one channel swap amp channels and work your way back upstream until you find the source.

Though not truly wireless (nothing decent is) this may help with your problem. Radio Shack has a wireless option - it's a 5.8GHz transmitter and receiver. The receiver end has a stereo 50W amplifier. You could use this to run some actual Quintets as surrounds, in the next room or out on the patio. Like I said, not completely "wireless" but may get your signal, and speakers, where you want them.