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I just set up a 5.1 home theater in my living room on August 9th, last month. I'm happy with the results and have done some experimenting to work things out better. I'll be upgrading my sub (current sub will go into my bedroom/office as part of a 2.1 system) and getting a new TV early next year...

I was a bit surprised at the disdain for mid-fi speakers by many of Polk's long-term forum members. They also dislike Emotiva. Emotiva, Yamaha and Polk are bang for the buck value brands. This rubs the wrong way with some that are seeking ultimate sound. Some at the Polk Forum would seem to be...

They do bargain hunting! One forum member currently is unloading over $5,000 in MIT cables and other audiophool stuff at 1/3 to 1/5 off regular retail. This guy is raising money for his daughter's wedding this summer. Many are big fans of buying used exotic cables from other forum members or...

This stuff is not just limited to "magazines" (i.e. Audioquest's promotion bureau) but goes on all the time on other forums. At the Polk Audio Forum, there is currently a thread about "are my silver cables too bright." There is another discussion on recommending a good coax cable, apparently...

Thanks for a great overview article on an important subject. I'm about to buy a new AVR and am considering the Yamaha Aventage 1060 or the new 1070 model. I'm happy with my speakers and my speaker cables (12/4 for fronts and 12/2 for surrounds, 5.1 system).

I don't know if that box actually does anything other than function as a mysterious black box. At another forum, one of its members that bought some MIT cables posted: "I found a pair of lightly used MIT Avt S3 cables in box for $160 shipped" and then reported "I am now a believer." Then other...

I went from a budget Sherwood "100 watt rms" receiver to the Yamaha R-S500 (The A-S500, A-S501 are the integrated amp versions of this receiver's amp). The Sherwood lacked in the bass and mid-range and was more bright. I was used to the Sherwood sound and for a week or so I had some buyer's...

MIT stands for "Music Interface Technologies." They put a boxy looking "interface" in the middle of their speaker wires. They are altering/adjusting/filtering the sound. If you like your speaker wires straight up, 80 proof, pure multi-strand copper that is one thing, but if you instead turn your...

I actually like my 2.1 channel set-up just fine. "If it ain't broke, I ain't gonna break it!" I wonder how many people that chose audio over sending their kids to private school give their set-ups failing grades, despite the coin they expended? Some are too insatiable to ever be happy. The...

Instead of the mic, I need to invest in a SPL meter. Then I can calibrate how long I can listen at X level before I deafinitely go deaf. Then again, what I don't know can't hurt me (is that a double negative?).

"Speaker cable is supposed to deliver signal unchanged." That is your premise and mine too, but not everyone operates under those rules of engagement. At the Polk forum, someone just commented on how they used MIT speaker wires to tame their RTI A7s and CSI A6. The problems that those speaker...

I would only partly agree with this statement. If the speaker cable is a simple, multi-strand OFC product, we are dealing with a generic/commodity. So, I would expect 14 gauge OFC by MediaBridge to be very similar to 14 gauge OFC by Monoprice. But, with exotic cables, are they merely dressing...

I first used MediaBridge 16 gauge, copper clad aluminum (CCA) wire before I read some of the articles from this website. The 16 gauge wire seems very flimsy compared to either 14 or 12 gauge wire. I now have MediaBridge 12 gauge wire bought from Amazon. I also bought their banana plugs. The...

Good question. The rat is a multi-purpose tool. It not only can accurately judge the best speaker cables, it will also provide companionship in lieu of a dog or a cat. Plus, if you have leftovers that are about to go bad, the rat also functions as a self-powered, self-propelled portable garbage...

Maybe I can go to Pet smart, buy a baby white rat, start feeding it baloney, do a growth curve on it, and see if it can discern minor sounds produced by my new, $700 speaker wires. The fully fledged, full of baloney rat should be able to hear how great those speaker wires are, and accurately...

I cannot get out to test stuff. So, I buy online and when and if it gets delivered (not always a sure thing anymore now that Amazon uses such "reputable" delivery companies as OnTrac) I then listen. I am definitely hoping that what I bought does what it should. But sometimes the product falls a...

What is a "sensitive ABX test?" I don't measure any of this stuff except with my ears and use them to determine if speaker A sounds better or not than speaker B, etc. You can scientifically measure many differences that go beyond human hearing abilities. Many people that advocate for very...

Hi Gene: Why don't you use either a receiver or an amp that has A and B channels? Then you could hook up these kimber kables and BJC. I do this all the time to do comparisons. Since they want big bucks (cp to 12 gauge OFC wire) for their stuff, the big questions are, "is there an audible...