Home Audio

[Eric Giles]

People can rip on "Driven" all they want, but that was a fucking AWESOME movie.

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!

Now back on topic-I have owned some Denon equipment in the past-nice stuff overall, but a bit overpriced and a bit quirky at times. The Sony ES line is now basically a joke-they have really lost their way. Then again, Sony in general has lost their way in everything! Back in the '80's-to mid '90's the ES line was top notch, but things have changed and from what I have seen I would never own any of their current ES offerings.

Since Martin Logan was brought up in this thread, a I helped a good friend of mine put together a surround system a few years ago consisting of M-L Aerius i mains, their top of the line center channel, a pair of B&W DS6 surrounds, and the grand daddy-a Martin Logan Descent subwoofer. It retails for about $3000, has 3 10" high excursion woofers with 400 watts of continuous power, and is beautiful to look at. This thing is TREMENDOUS-you can put on Saving Private Ryan and after about 10 minutes, the bass is so strong that you are actually nauseated at your stomach-it has that much bass output.

[Jean]

If you have the cash, pass the denon, sony es, b&k, krell and get a couple of these bad boys. Plus Nelson Pass is one hell of a cool guy!

http://www.passlabs.com/products.htm just my 2 cents ;)

[LINUS]

Not sure what level Denon ($$$ range) peeps are talking about, but the only way I see to go after a 777es is to go B & K. ~$1500 is what I plan to spend next go around, and for that I think I can pull a used AVR507.

Did Denon get their reliability issues resolved from the early 90's? They were pimp, but you didn't want one if you were a meat-n-potatoes type guy.

Guess I'm just a 'made in japan' Sony ES or B&K type. And I hear all ES is Malaysia now. So just B&K, with a nod to see what Sunfire is built like these days, if it's still around . I hear Krell is just fancy Pioneer, but works/sounds good with Martin Logan electrostatics. Never spent any real time trying M-L's though - I went straight to Def Tech, and I haven't regretted it. They work really well with Sony ES, especially with a decent set of wires.

Onkyo still built like it was late '80's/early '90's?

[Jand3rson]

In my first day of working at my new job, I saw a system going in a $1.7mil house that makes all of this stuff look like a fucking Walkman. :D

And I see Tyler knows what's up. People can rip on "Driven" all they want, but that was a fucking AWESOME movie.

[e30sd]

i bought my shit from a dude in a minivan at the shell station. pretty sick stuff.

[europeanplates]

I have bought plenty off Audiogon, good buys on ther.

Tyler

[bwanac]

If you are looking for good used gear, try out http://www.audiogon.com/

[europeanplates]

Actually Denon is one of the harder ones to use on the market, sound and features are very good!!! I posted as I wanted to see if any one was doing Blue ray / Hd-dvd etc as well I may be partnering up with a local shop for some work.. Some nice system for sure. Here is what I will be trimming out in the next month. I have a lot of gear but no projector or HD sources.



Tyler

[mrsleeve]

DENON is the only way people (Harmon Kardon is a close 2ed)

Well I havent needed most of my gear in the last few years (G/F hates really loud music) so most of its still in the basement boxed up when I moved.

What I am running now
TV: last of the Toshiba CRT 32 in flat screen
Reciver: Denon: AVR 8500
CD : Denon 650 5 disk changer
DVD : cheapy JVC single
Main channels: Old MTX home audio 4-way's with 12in sub cones
Sub: is a 10in Klipsch (I dont rember the model its of 98-99 vintage)
games PS2
All the good speakers are in the basement I have a full 5 channel set of mission Loud speakers the sub is the same as above for these.

The MTX's get too loud for her so I wont even hook up the full mission's and I sold my Denon amp I had for that set.

[FredK]

I am more into stereo, running my own design 3 ways using scanspeak tweeters/woofers and vifa mids. Cabinets custom made and braced with 1" hdf by a cabinet maker, crossovers gone through many changes... amp is also diy dual mono .

Ha, I like how your crossovers are on a board on top of the speaker. It reminds me of my own custom speakers, a set of ProAc 2.5 clones, which are based on a Scanspeak mid-woofer and tweeter. I have the crossovers just chilling on the floor. I also am running a dual mono DIY amp, an Aksa 100wpc unit.

[Funkmasta]

well, we all appreciate quality... Thats why we drive BMWs :)

I havent started building my home system, but Denon stuff has really impressed me in the past, so Im sure it will be in the considerations.

[Jean]

I am more into stereo, running my own design 3 ways using scanspeak tweeters/woofers and vifa mids. Cabinets custom made and braced with 1" hdf by a cabinet maker, crossovers gone through many changes... amp is also diy dual mono .

You can kind of see them in this picture, I know placement sucks.



For HT it's 42" plasma, denon 5.1dts and older polk rt55i 2.5way front and cs400i center.. nothing big.

[KenC]

Denon AVR-3000

Phase Technology PC-60s

[NC325iC]

26" widescreen philips tv (its good enough for me), dvr, pioneer vsx-816 7.1ch surround, 5 jbl speakers (diff models dont feel like listing them all) and 2 custom speakers from creative acoustic (old), and a shitty subwoofer, 4 of the speakers are at different heights, ran out of money for stands

[bwanac]

2 channel in the dorm.

Rotel ra985bx amp
mac mini
23" LCD
12" cheap0 sony sub i modded
and no longer made Platinum pt801 bookshelves

overall. im louder and more obnoxious and more importantly better sounding than every fraternity on campus.