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LoL @ fini.... Thanks for the responses all.

Hey all, I'm cutting it very close on my wall with the TV/Audio/Speakers. In order to get an audio rack on the wall it looks like I'd have to remove the feet on my RF-5's to give me a few more inches. My question is whether I need to be concerned with any accoustical or stability issues with removing the feet(carpeted room). Anyone done this? Thoughts?

I'll take a look, thanks! Right now I'm thinking of getting some custom oak stands made by a guy on eBay. I sent him an e-mail with the dimensions of the RS3 footprint and his prices on the generic stuff seem reasonable. I'll post if/when I hear back from him.

Has anyone found a decent speaker stand for the reference series surrounds? I'm looking for any good links to webpages where I might find some that will support my RS3's.

Don't be shy, I won't hold anyone responsible if my 3802 goes poof! Is there anything I could post that would make my question more clear? Maybe I'll have to post over at the AVS forum and see if my results are different......

I recently purchased a Niles VCS HUB8 to clean up some wiring. http://www.nilesaudio.com/pdffiles/manuals/Volume_Controls/VCS_HUB8.pdf I know that this particular model was intended to run to multiple sets of speakers operated by seperate volume controls, but I got it nearly free and it fits in my network interface box nicely. In the manual it states " Caution! Every speaker pair in the system must be connected to an impedence-magnifying volume control and set to the same magnification." My question is this. If I am only connecting one pair of output speakers(surrounds) to the input, can I ignore the above warning?

I had stated above that I saw a Mitsu with a DVI port, I was mistaken. I thought I saw one on their 65" DLP monster but I double checked and it wasn't there. Thanks for the post RangerSix, very informative.

I've been researching HDTV's the last month or so and it's driving me nuts trying to decide to go with something with a DVI input or something with a firewire(IEEE 1394) i/o port. I've been looking at mainly Pioneer Elite, Mitsubishi, and Toshiba and it appears that Mitsubishi has DVI on some units and firewire on others. I couldn't get the manual to download on the Pioneer website so I'm not sure which technology they are supporting. Toshiba seems to be solidly behind the DVI technology. -Any opinions on which technology will win out? I would hate to end up with a 4 or 5K boat anchor in a couple year when this whole thing pans out. I realize that the DVI passes a huge amount of bandwidth (5 Gb/sec uncompressed) but can you imagine 3 DVI ins and one DVI out on the back of your receiver? That's a lot of space, those connectors are freakin huge.

It's obvious that what's wrong with that picture is that the warning and instructions are still in the plastic on the ladder and you never took them off and read them...... Edit: oops, sorry didn't see the second page....guess I was beat to it. Hope your are feeling better Moon.

-Originally posted under Technical Questions... Does anyone have any experience with this unit? I was shopping around for DVD Players to add to my Xmas want list and if this this is all it's cracked up to be it seems like a bargain. SACD, Pro. Scan, plays CDR's and MP3's...for a little over $200. Also, when your dvd player and your receiver both have DTS and dolby digital decoders which one does the work? Thanks in advance fellas...

Thanks for your input guys, moving this to the HT forum so no more responses here please.

Does anyone have any experience with this unit? I was shopping around for DVD Players to add to my Xmas want list and if this this is all it's cracked up to be it seems like a bargain. SACD, Pro. Scan, plays CDR's and MP3's...for a little over $200. Also, when your dvd player and your receiver both have DTS and dolby digital decoders which one does the work? Thanks in advance fellas...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=801360424 (sorry, don't know how to create a link) What do you think they're worth? I didn't know that Klipsch used to sell unstained units....

I play PS2 on my reference system. I love the bass thud when I really clobber someone playing Madden 2003, but I usually turn the game sound off and listen to the radio or something while I'm playing. Sad part is that I blew my wad on the reference system and receiver and currently am using the PS2 also as a cd player and dvd player!

I have the opportunity to pick up an 8" polk powered sub which was struck by a lightening surge for $25. I'm willing to put some work into it but is it worth it or is this thing garbage now?