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1) Out of 100%, please assign a percentage to the factors that most heavily influence your purchase decisions? Performance =30% Price = 30% Aesthetics = 5% Brand Reputation = 10% Discounts and Promotions = 10% Professional Reviews = 10% Personal Recommendations = 5% 2) When it comes to...

My preferred headphones are comfortable and understated. No flashy stuff for me.

Have you purchased 24bit music in the past? Nope. If so, what are the sources you have purchased from? Not applicable. Are you willing to pay more for higher quality audio? Yes, but it all depends on the price and the bitrate/quality. When purchasing music online, do you prefer a subscription...

Hi j, thanks for responding. I'll do that 1 dB bump up and maybe that'll help. Not to be a nit-picker, but I was thinking more along the lines of 2 dB to account for the level difference between phantom centre and not. I'll try that too. It's not that I've been happy until now, I just never...

I was watching The Police: Certifiable on Blu-ray the other day, and I found that I was disliking the way Sting’s vocals sounded coming from my centre speaker (an Athena C1). Out of curiousity, I set my receiver to phantom centre, and noticed two things immediately: One, the vocals were so...

1) I have been contemplating looking for a music server for a long time. b) I would like one because I have a lot of music I'd like piped from my desktop to my living room setup -- and I'd like to do that without running cables all the way there. 2) It's got to have high-quality sound, there...

There's a site I use called http://www.kids-in-mind.com/ that I really like, since it breaks down so-called objectionable content for the parent into three categories: sex and nudity; violence and gore; and profanity. It details everything in a movie that is in those categories and at the end...

I've had a similar problem with my 83. When I hit the open/close button on the player, there's a noise like it's trying to open but is being blocked -- the front panel says "open" but it isn't. I hit the button again, the panel says "closed". I hit the button one more time, and the drawer...

FYI, the 80 is no longer on Oppo's website. cheers, supervij

Apparently, there are rumours floating around the internet that the Oppo 80 is about to be discontinued. It's still up on Oppo's website (oppodigital.com), though. Here's what I found on Blu-ray.com this morning: "According to several well-placed sources, the latest entry in Oppo's Blu-ray...

I keep the grills on all the time. I find that the speakers are too visually distracting when the grills are off, pulling focus away from the movie. Of course, when I listen to music, my eyes are usually closed, so that's moot. cheers, supervij

Er . . . Minus, why would I consider the Shures? They don't seem to have a microphone on them. cheers, supervij

I'd be interested in seeing the curve when you're able to, Mooz -- thanks! I just found out that these Plattans are being sold at the HMV downtown, so hopefully they'll let me try them out. Frequency response curve be damned, if I like how they sound, I might pick one up. Of course, I'm...

Okay, the earbuds that came with my new iPhone suck. Suck bad. The only comparison I have is with my Sony MDR-G45 headphones, a behind-the-head, over-the-ear headphone style that to me sound pretty good. Of course, the only time I really use them is when I'm out of the house, listening to mp3...

1) Yes, very cool. 2) Cherry is always good. I've always wanted to see a dark, forest green. 3) Same as above: cherry or a dark, forest green.

I definitely use the Pure Direct mode on my receiver when listening to 2-channel music. Although I've an awesome sub, there's a clarity and precision to the music that was lacking without the PD mode. Of course, this is completely subjective. But I definitely remember listening to some vinyl...

Saw it last night and had my head blown clean off! Seriously, this is an extraordinary film, well worth the price of admission. Some of the more spectacular imagery has already been seen in the trailers, but there's some other bits that were pretty cool: the 3D fight and the 0 G fights in...

I thought it was interesting, in that this is a look into a notorious gangster's personal and "professional" life. Well acted, certainly, but I didn't find it terribly compelling and nearly fell asleep somewhere in the middle. :( cheers, supervij

Thanks for understanding, everyone. I knew that you guys, of all people, would feel my pain. The horror . . . the horror . . . I wish I could say that this was only a dream . . . but it actually happened a few months ago! Darn roommate had some friends over for UFC, they got stoned, and I...

It was terrible. Truly terrible. I kept fiddling around with settings in my AVR and in my player, but all the vocals kept coming out of the sub. I thought, "Okay, I'll just lower the crossover," and I did -- from 80 Hz to 60, then to 50, then to 40. And the voices kept coming through the...