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For what it's worth, my room size is very similar to yours, and my front row seating is just a little closer, and I went with a 120" wide screen. However, it has a 2.40:1 aspect ratio, so the screen height is only 50" and center channel placement is good. Granted, 16:9 content does not use the...

Yamaha says the "Public Launch" of the RX-A..40 series (RX-A740, RX-A840, A1040, A2040 and A3040) will be June 24th. However, they also indicate "Shipping: June - August", so they may not all roll out at the same time. I think the RX-A740 and 840 are available within a few days.

Very vivid memories for me as well. I had turned 10 the day before. For my birthday, I received a Silvertone transistor radio (still have it somewhere), and had it close to my ear, listening in class. The teacher saw me with it and told me to put it away, until I told her that "this guy says the...

If I've got this straight.. A guy walks into a store in Santa Monica and buys a receiver and pays 9.25% sales tax. If he went a few blocks to a store in Orange county he might pay 7.75%. Doesn't matter to the store what the guys address is - they charge everyone who comes in the same rate...

Hmm. Looks like the manual is correct and the specs on the site are in error - unless they made more than one version. Only line level inputs on mine.

I know the feeling. I bought one during the last sale just because I thought it would look good with the SX4T towers, but the performance continues to impress me. Now that I've moved these speakers from a relatively small room to the larger living room, I'm very tempted to get a second ES1010i.

7 pairs of SoundScape 12's 7.1 surround sound with matching speakers in two rooms. I should have locked Jim and Mary out of the house in 2009 and kept a pair when I had the chance :D

This ain't Jersey!!! Probably there is a difference in culture out here that helped mold my attitudes on firearms and government, etc. Certainly many of my friends and most of my relatives in the East (especially New York and New Jersey :)) are more cynical about government officials in...

Neither do I. I typically try to describe why I make a particular observation or voice a certain opinion, such as the paragraph after the statement I made about the military/National Guard. I never said my opinion was any more valid than anyone else's (but then I never said anyone with a...

Well, it's really pretty easy to know for a fact what was on their minds by reading the articles and papers of the time. Besides the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, our founding fathers were fairly prolific writers. ..."And I'll repeat, we have a well-regulated militia and you...

No, even if they "saw it coming", a bomb dropped as an act of war against a foreign enemy had nothing to do with their demand to retain the right of the people to bear arms. What they did have the insight to see coming, were the millions of people murdered by their own governments who did not...

Quite the contrary. I'm highly suspicious of every person, common or otherwise, in all those ways (and many others) until they demonstrate otherwise. As I get older, it seems that the percentage of irrational and irresponsible among us keep growing, but maybe that's just because they're featured...

I can understand the reluctance, but... When my grandchildren go to a theater now, I'd actually be less apprehensive if I knew everyone there was armed, instead of just one. I wouldn't doubt it's probably a somewhat unique perspective, though. As a famous man once said: "a man's got to...

Requirement to carry? We've had various "Gun Control" laws, bills, and acts in this country for more than 175 years. Every so often congress comes up with new legislation to either attempt to protect the populace or maybe just try again to disarm it (I don't know if I'm conspiracy-theorist...

Well... Two out of three suck, anyway (I'm not sayin' which one doesn't :)).

“The bottom line is you point a gun at a deputy or police officer, you’re going to get shot,” said Lt. Herrell in a different video interview that appeared nationally on Yahoo News. By that logic, if they mistakenly blunder onto a shooting range, they kill everyone there? It's a tough job...

Well, I guess they did. All of the production units had the correct drivers - Just the prototype had the wrong one? So few of us ever buy prototypes, I would guess we're safe. In the end, I kept my ES1010i because of the good performance - The cosmetics was just a bonus.:)

A good deal on the ES1010i right now at $349 each: EMP ES1010iR

Haha - I thought maybe I over did it already with the same view, but in different settings. RJ mentioned the sound quality of the Zona speakers being much larger than their physical size. Here's a shot for comparison - The Zona next to the Klipsch RB-61 (the JBL and Infinity speakers are in...

If you have a multiple-zone receiver, and are not using all of the zones (and I'll bet that's most of us), this is the coolest thing for that extra zone we thought we didn't need. I've been using Aperion's Zona Speaker System for over a month now, and they've been in almost every room in the...