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[Ducati]

Well it's a good thing this thread came up.

I got my girlfriend a sound system before I did for me. I practiced on hers.

I got her this setup - nothing special; but it's nice.

Samsung TV
Samsung HTIB (5.1) 900watts - good stuff.



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Mine is going to be a..
Samsung 40inch HDTV - http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1134703182017
Def Techs - http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....All+Categories
Denon AVR1507 - http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1151658134571
This is pretty much all I can afford right now.

[AndrewBird]

Alrighty, here we go:

Sony STR-DE898 Receiver
Philips 24" Flatscreen TV
Magnavox MDV630R R17 DVD Recorder
Magnavox VRT344 VCR
Sony LF-PK1 Location Free Player
Onkyo SKS-HT530 Speakers
Nintendo 64
Nintendo GameCube
NES

Pictures:

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230W 10" Sub


Front Speakers:


110W two 5" mids with one 1" tweeter


Center, same as fronts, only sideways. Also, the location free player:


Rear Speakers, 110W 3.125 mid with one 3/4" tweeter


What I just got done doing tonight, organizing cables:






Nothing too amazing, but it works for me. I’d like to upgrade the VCR to a Panasonic AG-1980 as the one I have is a cheapy.

For those who don’t know, the location free player allows me to stream both cable television and my DVD player to either a laptop or my PSP. I can also control both my DVD player and change channels on the cable. All I need is a wireless internet connection. :)

I also have my computer hooked up via S-Video and coaxial digital audio. This allows me to watch videos on my TV with full surround sound and play all my MP3’s through the system also. Works great.

I have never owned any tube equipment myself but I can truly appreciate the sound. I have helped set up several 2 channel rooms in the past.

Tyler

Yea, its worth at least having a 2 channel tube setup for music. Look into the Jolida, very great quality, great prices!

Althought someday I will own a few famed McIntosh mono-blocks!

[europeanplates]

I have never owned any tube equipment myself but I can truly appreciate the sound. I have helped set up several 2 channel rooms in the past.

Tyler

Tube gear is where its fucking at. The Dyanco must be sweet. I am pretty happy with my modern day Jolida, but plan on converting it to a 6L6 or a 6V6. All my guitar gear is tube, and just wrapped up doing some mods on that stuff.

[Eric Giles]

Am I the only one here really into tube gear?

Nope, you aren't. Now I don't have anything up to date in the tube area, but one of my most cherished possessions is a Dynaco Stereo 70 amplifer that my Dad built from a kit back around 1967 or so. As you already know, this is probably the most popular tube amplifier of all time and still today is highly sought after. I still occasionally fire it up and have a listen, but not as often as I would like.

It's no longer stock, as I replaced the 7199 tubed driver board about 14 years ago with an aftermarket board with newer driver tubes (6GH8 maybe?) and some other parts in the power supply. Still working perfectly after all of these years and I will never sell it.

Am I the only one here really into tube gear?

[europeanplates]

You won't do any better than the just released Toshiba HD-XA2 HD-DVD player. It has some of the finest video processing circuitry on the market and is getting rave reviews from buyers. Heck, the first generation HD-DVD players have noticeably better picture quality than any of the available Blu-Ray players and this new second generation does even better. Those Toshiba/RCA players are also about the best player available for upconverting standard definition DVD's.

I have the first generation RCA HDV5000 (a rebadged Toshiba HD-A1) and the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on and both provide some of the best picture quality currently available. The only drawback to the Xbox add-on is that it is having issues with the audio, but Microsoft has promised a downloadable fix for that soon. But its benefits are that it is MUCH faster than the standalone players in load times, plus there is no loss in picture quality.

Check out www.avsforum.com for more in depth information on these players.

Eric,

Thanks for the heads up. I wasalso looking at the NEw LG unti that does both formats.

Tyler

[Eric Giles]

Eurospeed,
ANY other ideas for soure gear??

Thanks,

Tyler

You won't do any better than the just released Toshiba HD-XA2 HD-DVD player. It has some of the finest video processing circuitry on the market and is getting rave reviews from buyers. Heck, the first generation HD-DVD players have noticeably better picture quality than any of the available Blu-Ray players and this new second generation does even better. Those Toshiba/RCA players are also about the best player available for upconverting standard definition DVD's.

I have the first generation RCA HDV5000 (a rebadged Toshiba HD-A1) and the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on and both provide some of the best picture quality currently available. The only drawback to the Xbox add-on is that it is having issues with the audio, but Microsoft has promised a downloadable fix for that soon. But its benefits are that it is MUCH faster than the standalone players in load times, plus there is no loss in picture quality.

Check out www.avsforum.com for more in depth information on these players.

[europeanplates]

Eurospeed,

Here is what is planned for the room:

Triad Silver left
Triad Silver center
Triad Silver right
Triad Gold Left surround
Triad Gold right surround
Triad Silver Dual Surround For left and right/rear
4 Triad Bronze in wall subs with 4 triad 500 watt amps ran off a DBX subwoofer phase controller

Da lite 84" screen
Sony VPL-VW1000 projector

ADA cinema rhapsody processor
ADA 12 channel amp bridged to 390watts a channel
ADA 2 channel for center rear
ADA 7.1 surround processor
ADA a/d convertors
ADA and Furman power condioners and sequential turn on delays for the sub amps
I also have a rare ADA rhapsody home system with AMX touchscreens, ada amps and all speakercraft speakers.

Source gear I have an escient DVDm100 dvd controller and 3 sonr 777es dvd players,

Still no other source gear but I am leaning towards

Sony Blue ray player
Dish DVR and HD sat box
ADA sirius/fm/am/wb tuner

ANY other ideas for soure gear??

Thanks,

Tyler

[Eric Giles]

the movie was entertaining. accurate, no. but fun to watch. (superspeedway was a great imax on CART)


you and tony george make babies.

Superspeedway was great-I have it somewhere on VHS, but I won't watch it anymore as it has too many scenes of the whining, backstabbing yen-whore Michael Andretti.

Fuck Tony George-the destroyer of open wheel racing in the U.S.

[LINUS]

Becuase the racing scenes are fun to watch. So they're fake. So is every other movie you watch these days. It was a fun racing movie to watch.

What? Days of Thunder was fake? NOOOOOOO!

best Ricky Bobby voice/ "Help me naked baby Jesus - Help me Tom Cruise!" /Ricky Bobby off

[James Crivellone]

Audio Gear
Viewsonic 32inch 1080I HDMI LCD TV (Replacing with a 46inch 1080P Sony this summer)
Yamaha HTR-5990 HDMI 7.1 Reciever
Panasonic S97 Upconverting HDMI DVD Player
Motorola 6200 Gen III HDMI HDTV/DVR Cable Box
Sony Playstation 3 100GB
Sony Playstation 2
Original XBOX 80GB
Pentium 4 2.8C/2GB/6800XT Vista Ultimate HTPC

Speakers

Front = Polk Monitor 50's
Rear = Polk R30's
Center = Polk CSi1
Sub = Polk PSW10

Remote = Logitech Harmony 880

[Jand3rson]

Oh boy. I am a huge Champ Car (previously CART) fan, and this movie is a disgrace to open wheel racing. It's about as cheesy and fake as you can get. Please explain how it is awesome to you? I don't mean to threadjack, but good God man-Driven is universally recognized as one of the worst movies ever!

Becuase the racing scenes are fun to watch. So they're fake. So is every other movie you watch these days. It was a fun racing movie to watch.

[e30sd]

Oh boy. I am a huge Champ Car (previously CART) fan, and this movie is a disgrace to open wheel racing. It's about as cheesy and fake as you can get. Please explain how it is awesome to you? I don't mean to threadjack, but good God man-Driven is universally recognized as one of the worst movies ever!

the movie was entertaining. accurate, no. but fun to watch. (superspeedway was a great imax on CART)


you and tony george make babies.