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I agree. A major part of the cost comes from the finish and the form factor. If anyone has seen a SONUS FABER speaker, any model, you can fail to notice how they can be a centerpiece in any room. Excellent, heirloom-quality finish. Sonics-wise, excellent as well, but no better than another...

Many of the DVD-A, DTS-CD and SACD I've heard do sound gorgeous and realistic. But some mixes have an artificiality that you do not find in a live performance. Like panning the percussions across all the channels and back. That's like the musician was running around the room while playing...

Even if we get there, knowing human nature and his quest for perfection, there will always be a further want to impove. He'll always find something to tweak to his heart's contnet. There'd be no end to it. Nothing is perfect in this world. At least none that an imperfect man can manufacturer...

You just need to circulate the air to pass through your cabinet enclosure. Will an exhaust fan be a problem?

I think "punchiness" is more an attribute of the power amp and speakers. But your candidated for a separate AV processor are excellent choices. You could get the Denon receiver you have in mind. Just use their pre-amp out to mate with your favourite power amps.

Meridian 558.2 5-channel power amplifier rated at 200 wpc into 8 ohms ALL channels driven. Bridgeable to 2 channels at 500wpc into 8 ohms plus one 200w channel. It has two 1.2kva toroids and weighs in at 115 lbs. Suggested price: $5,995. [Edit: This forum is for having members post...

This AV receiver has a SRP of $6,999. More expensive than the Yamaha Z9. Any users/reviews out there?

Any users of these cones here? Any truth to their claims? http://www.dhcones.com/cones.html

Those speakers we fondly invest on at home are part of the Hi-Fidelity Plaback chain. They are meant to deliver the sound pressure levels analogous to the electronic signals of a RECORDING. Whether LP, Open Reel, CD, Cassette, DVD, SACD. I don't epect them to sound anyhwere near a live concert...

I am not so sure if the conclusion on the above test matters to me. One thing for sure is that the spectral analysis reveal that there is content energy above the 20Khz for which CDs have a brickwall filter. Now I am sure at my age, I can no longer hear above 17K, confirmed when my 11-yr old...

A colleague has the the same problem. Solution: He sits on throw pillows scattered on the floor when listening. Actually the problem can also be with rear speakers. Like those bookshelf monopoles meant for the rear. The manufacturers advise them to be posiitoned HIGHER than the ear when...

Agree. Like in computers, the hardware is nothing without the software.

This is often the criticism for receivers, whether stereo or multichannel. They can never approach the stereo quality of separates.

I guess you would have to open the receiver and have a seasoned electronics guy tap into the circuit board between the preamp and amp, disconnect the two and route the preamp's audio path to a set of RCA output terminals. If your CD or DVD player has variable output level control, you can...

The new Pioneer VSX- AX10iG costs $6,999.00 http://www.pioneeraus.com.au/home_entertainment/receivers/vsxax10ig/

I also like black monitors. And black facade amps, tuners, players and preamps. I think this prevalence of silver bodied AV gears are an arbitrary decision of manufacturers to flood, say, Asian market with silver, European/American market with blacks of the same model, or vice versa. SOme...

The objective of Hi-Fi PLAYBACK is never to duplicate the "orginal sound". It is to reproduce faithfully the RECORDING. Replicating the original sound is the hi-fi RECORDING objective. And that's what recording engineers and studio strive to achieve. Not home listeners with their playback...

I guess it all depends on your priorities. Yamaha does give excellent digital processing features, though HK and others aren's exactly far behind. But on sheer sonics alone, HK has the edge for me.

Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, such an amp or receiver will not sell to most number conscious consumers. :D

There really shouldn't be any debate between dynamic power and continuous power. From a technical point of view, dynamic power is simply peak power. And anything that has as RMS value has a peak value. The current and voltage going to the speakers included. Some audiophiles check the...