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yes I even called their Marketing Manager to offer him to enter his product in Tom's floorstading speaker faceoff and he declined saying nobody wins in a faceoff but the speaker that got 1st place. He also said we tend to nit pick too much about product performance and rely too much on how...

Nice setup, and very clean install job! My wife would give you a big thumbs up on that! Until you get a sub, make sure you set the front speakers to "large" and sub to "off" on your receiver. I highly recommend getting two subs when you are ready as it will increase the dynamic range of...

Epik Sentinel Review to be Retracted After speaking in great lengths with the owner of Epik subwoofers, we have decided to retract Rob’s Epik Sentinel review. • Rob was shipped two products initially, one of which was damaged when he transshipped it from Florida to Canada. Rob...

Oh my. Try placing a pair of speakers in an anechoic chamber and finding an ideal spot where its even palatable to listen too. I suggest to pick up Dr. Tooles latest book where he discusses the benefits of early reflections in home theater rooms. I honestly never encountered someone whose...

Listening to loudspeakers in an anechoic chamber is a very unpleasant experience. Our brains rely on early reflections for directional cues and spaciousness. To completely eliminate all reflections would sound horrific and unnatural to us. The desire of a good home theater should never be...

Jerry; The general shape of the response curve of a speaker above the room transition region (usually 500Hz) is virtually identical to an anechoic response. The occasional high Q dips and bumps can usually be attributed to room or measurement artifacts. It takes experience to really...

The danger with publishing measurements is the reader almost never has the skills to properly look at the measurement and understand what is happening. The summed nearfield response is of the bass drivers spliced with the 1 meter response of the tweeter. Perhaps we should have smoothed it to...

No offense TLS Guy but some of your comments about loudspeakers on this forum often go unchecked as you are a self proclaimed expert. There are several others here similar to you, but I usually keep quite until the BS runs too deep. The electrolytics are bypassed with polys if you read...

For Clarity. Clint did NOT write this review. He posted it for a new reviewer Rob H that actually wrote it after he bought the sub for his own personal usage. I will try to get him to comment further on his setup and methodology in the forum. Epik looks like they make nice products so if...

The idea of this system is all of the components come from bad robot. Most consumers wouldn't mind spending the extra $15 for the Impact HDMI cable seeing how the convenience of assembling an entire system at one place of purchase is true value add. Not to mention bad robot took an...

As the article clearly states both in the page title and content, these were analog measurements. You can NOT measure analog audio via HDMI. There are several possible reasons why their graph doesn't agree with mine: they set their speakers all to small. You can't tell since their graph...

As promised here is my test report documenting the current hardware/firmware issues of both players. http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/transports/high-definition-dvd-players-hd-dvd-blu-ray/oppo-bdp-83se Oppo has read this report, acknowledged these issues I found and is currently working...

WooHoo Audioholics didn't make that list :D

I requested a 10 meter sample for testing which costs almost as much as all of the A/V gear in my rack :)

At this point, I'd advise getting the 83 model instead of the SE. I will publish a report of my findings next week as I already made Oppo aware and they are working on some fixes. I offer some suggestions as workarounds for fellow 83SE owners until this is addressed by Oppo. Stay tuned...

Fellow 83SE users that are using the analog outputs please post your experiences here. I found a measurable issue that will be included in my test report that is only exhibited on the 83SE version. I want to see if people are experiencing it. I won't give the details as I don't want to...

Steve; I have about 20 HD DVD's. PM me for details. I will give you a hot deal.

Friends; My bro rented this from Blockbuster and he claims the R rated version was blocked as were all the special features and menu items. He called Blockbuster and they claimed this is purposely done on rentals to force consumers to buy the copy. Can anyone verify this?

The importance of anechoic chambers for testing loudspeakers is highly over stated and lately used as a marketing ploy by many companies claiming their products are better for that very reason. A good loudspeaker engineer knows how to properly measure their speakers without one. That...

Now had the mom and pop shop happened to own an online store with a coupon barcode, I am quite certain you would have tried to pull the same gimmick on them too. Now from a mom/pop shop point of view, if you went into their store and offered them $300 for a $500 Oppo player and they declined...