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I am also using Mordaunt SHort speakers but they are the MS914 front and back and a 905C center plus a B&W ASW600 subwoofer. They are driven by separate amps for the front(stereo acurus A250) and center/surrounds (3-ch acurus A200X3). They were formerly driven by the amps of a 1995 Onkyo...

If you are still considering this model for your purchase, I would recommend you look elsewhere. When it comes to brute power, dynamic headroom, and driving difficult loads, Yamaha is not at the top of my list. I have been in this hobby long enough to distinguish between amps that use a current...

So you can move the couch forward, can you get rid of the wife? :D (he, he, joke only)

I suppose any parametric equalizer such as the Behringer BFD1124 can do the job of taming bass peaks in any room.

I've also encountered some technical articles that say damping factor does not figure significantly in an amp's performance. And anything over a certain figure further diminishes any significance. I tend to agree. My onkyo amp rates a damping factor of 50 into 8 ohms (no frequency indicated)...

They say the ears are the best judge. I often advice the same thing. If only to get away from any technical entanglements. While the ears can judge for itself, the human ears are the most fallible measuring device. I really would like to read about some technical explanation on why or in...

You can get a more powerful system. But I would do some more research on how the HK rates their gears compared to many brands out there. Their 75 wpc rating can sound just as powerful as if not more than a competing brand rated at 130wpc. HK is conservatively rated, many are not. NAD and...

I wouldn't give much weight to the review in your link. The NADs and the Marantz are known for their wam musicality over other brands. So if these sound bright and harsh using a Martin Logan electrostatic speakers, they should. Because an electrostatic is not known to deliver warm sounds with...

This is how my set-up is. For HT and multichannel music. All my 4 speakers, front and back, set to LARGE, are identical full ranger floorstanders that can go down to 45hz -3db. The lone subwoofer, crossed at 45hz, is there simply to AUGMENT and add about 20hz bandwidth from 45db -3db down...

I have known this brand from way back 25 years ago with their Citation amplifiers. Harman Kardon have been in the business for the last 45 years and they made some of the best amplifiers that are conservatively specified and provided some of the most complete user manual available. I don't...

I'm totally with you on that. The goal of High Fidelity in PLAYBACK is to reproduce the recording as closely as to how the performance was recorded. Nothing more and nothing less. Seems the physics of sound propagation in air is quite straightforward. Horns, ribbons, cones, electrostats...

Nope, I don't need to present any data for you as i am not in the business of producing amplifiers. And I don't have to pontificate on any agenda as the title of this thread is very clear if you can read. My points have been very simple and my experience on this hobby speaks for itself for...

Perhaps not. But I really don't have to compare. That experience is enough to simply illustrate that the amp will have to draw a lot of current from its power supply when called for by current-demanding signals. The speaker load and its reactive impedances can and do in fact act as current...

Looking at the back panel of the Denon 4802 on this site... http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_9_1/denon-avr-4802-receiver-1-2002.html ..You may have to use the receiver Pre-outs to connect to an external multi-channel power amplifier in another room to get 7.1. Note that this means...

Very true. :D But sometimes, if not all the time, one has to consider the aesthetics of the room as well that would be acceptable to the spouse. Some of the things we do for this hobby can end up having to pass what they call WAF (wife acceptance factor) :D

You do have a bewildering amount of choices out there setting up your first decent HT. Some basic philosophies you may want to be guided with: (1) Three components will form the very heart of an HT system. The video monitor, the AV processor and the speakers. I'd concentrate on these...

What was the last thing you did before you noticed you can't turn on the receiver? First check if the power cable is connected or there is power from the mains. And if you remove all the interconnects and speaker cables to it and it still won't turn on, I'd suspect a blown fuse inside the...

If your receiver has multi-channel input, it should accomodate the player's decoded DVD-A or SACD signals using your player's internal processing features. Using a proprietary route such as the D-link between player and receiver is said to yield better sonics because this is a digital link that...

In general, I prefer that. But it also depends on the format of movie soundtrack and the multichannel music content that you prefer. Listening to Dolby prologic format will not require you to have the rear surround channels of equal power with your fronts. The ambience information rerely...

I don't have to put a fuse on the speaker path. When I was assembling a stereo power amp 20 years ago, I had fuses on the positive and negative leads to my power supply supplying the stereo amp. From 7 amps per rail, I had to use 3 amps in the interim as I didn't have the necessary 7 amp glass...