My
almost 70'YO dad cracks me up!! I guess you're never too old to catch the Bug
He had a crappy Bose cube system for the past 5+ years. (his first HT-surround system). He already has an excellent display...just the audio was lacking. I only make it home once a year during Christmas week when my family visits, and he generally get's a gentle ribbing each and every year. I mean c'mon....how could my own dad not confer with me and get suckered into buying such garbage??
How it all started:
He called me about 2-3 weeks ago, out of the blue, with an upgrade itch. He wanted something
small to fit in his small listening room that provided a good value for the $$$. After hearing both my BIL's and my system many times, it's been really bugging him lately how crappy his system sounds by comparison. (something not hard to do when Bose cubes are your point of reference) He was now finally ready to pull the trigger on an audio upgrade.
After several phone conversations, I recommended the $1,000 SVS 5.1 bookshelf system. For his modest needs, he didn't really need anything more. For what he paid for the crappy Bose system, this modest little $1,000 system would sound 1,000 times better. Not to mention.........My mother has tons of hummels and collector plates hanging all over the walls so anything more could be trouble!!
After looking at the SVS website, he was like....
"why should I get this little subwoofer, when I can have the Ultra13?".
Oh Oh.......
Several phone conversations later after emailing links detailing alternate possibilities, he chose a Klipsch RB51 system (minus the Klip-subwoofer) and added the Ultra13. It arrived just before Christmas ahead of my arrival. He was in hog heaven!
Soooooooo.......(after correcting his terrible setup attempt).... My dad, brother-in-law, and I were watching Transformers together to properly christen the new system and barely 5 minutes into the movie, an evil transformer was shooting-up the desert military base, and I kid you not...that transformer literally shot at, and shot down one of my mothers plates from the wall!! My dad swore he has never experienced a more realistic movie experience than this!! The transformer literally aimed at the direction of the wall directly at the offending plate, fired....and the plate fell, landed on a table, and shattered all over the place.
Hahahahahah.......both the video and surround sound followed in the perfect harmony...right at that plate.
My mother wasn't too pleased, but my father, and brother-in-law & I were extremely impressed by such a realistic movie experience.
In the following days, my dad recounted that moment many times.....(as if I wasn't there when it happened)
LOL...... he is now a very proud SVS owner!!
Hahahah
PS...he was thoroughly warned!! He now has a monumental rattle/plate proofing project ahead of him.
