What A/V gifts did Santa bring?

[Matt34]

Harmon Kardon 10 speaker HiFi, with sub - packaged inside an M3

You can go ahead and ship it on over and I'll break it in for ya, free of charge of course.

 

[5.1 DTS guy]

ozdvduser, do you have an e46 or e36 M3. they're great cars, and bimmer manual transmissions are the best, if you have a manual transmisson.

 

[Hi Ho]

I got the original StarWars trilogy on DVD + Episode III, some clothes, some other little things, and my favorite, a Creative ZenMicro Photo.

I love the MicroPhoto! It holds all my music (at 320k, I can't tell the difference from the CD) and has a real nice color OLED screen. I can't wait for OLED's to become mainstream in PC monitors and TV's of all sizes!

 

[ozdvduser]

ozdvduser, do you have an e46 or e36 M3. they're great cars, and bimmer manual transmissions are the best, if you have a manual transmisson.

had e36 (1999 Coupe 25th Anniversary Edition, Manual) now got e46 Coupe with SMG II - Manual / Auto selectable

Can't wait for the club track days to start again after the Xmas/New Year break - whooppee

 

[Sheep]

Got some cloths, and Money towards my new sub (DPS-12B)

Also got a ticket to go see Queen live with Paul Rogers when they come to town in april.

SheepStar

 

[GlocksRock]

Bought myself a new Samsung HL-R5067W DLP tv.

 

[bhdtv]

Over the past few weeks I picked up my reciever and got the sub (thanks Matt34). Speakers came on the 23rd. Santa gave me a new Harmony 688 to tie it all together. Just getting started, but the family sure is happy with it so far.

 

[Tomorrow]

Well, no a/v from Santa, per se, as I guess I was a bad boy during the year. But if you stretch the video part......a good friend sent me a pair of binoculars with a built-in digital camera (just 1.5 mp). Pretty cool. Now I can bird watch and prove I've done it when my wife comes home and asks what I've been doing all day.

Speaking of birds...furrycute, what the heck are those guys on your avatar? And now that I think about it, where did you get 'furrycute'? Are you? LOL.

Good cheer.

 

[Babyface]

I got an Axiom EP-600 from my parents. I bought them a Logitech 659, but I am using it now because my mom bought my dad a Rotel RSX-1056 and he prefers using the learning remote that came with it. My dad also bought one of his friends the HP 58" 1080p DLP. I helped them set it up, it is awesome, hopefully I can upgrade to a 1080p HD set next year. Additionally I got a 30gb Ipod and an Xbox 360, so it was a fantastic Christmas.

 

[gellor]

I got some cash from the in-laws...was gonna put it towards whatever new L/R speakers I decide on. Apparently a Dyson vacuum had a much higher WAF.

So the closest to new audio I got was a new neice. (with a healthy pair of lungs)

 

[Vancouver]

had e36 (1999 Coupe 25th Anniversary Edition, Manual) now got e46 Coupe with SMG II - Manual / Auto selectable

Can't wait for the club track days to start again after the Xmas/New Year break - whooppee

one of the best articles I have read in a long time. Its on the M5

http://www.bmwm5.com/articles.php?id=33&page=1

 

[5.1 DTS guy]

one of the best articles I have read in a long time. Its on the M5

http://www.bmwm5.com/articles.php?id=33&page=1

Yeah, I was almost certain the M5 was coming out in the summer of 06, but I saw quite a few of them last weekend... anyways have any of you guys tried Google video, you can search for alot of things and there's probably a video of it, like this one: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5363968757069908445&q=top+gear+m5
of the new M5.

 

[bpape]

Santa brought me a Slim Devices Squeezebox. Lovin it. Now I just need to build a small server with a big hard drive and start ripping my CD collection to FLAC.

 

[Feanor]

Behringer T1951 "tube equalizer"

Actually it hasn't arrived yet from Markertek, but it's shipped.

This thing isn't really a "tube equalizer" because it doesn't equalized using tubes. The equalization part is stereo four-band parametric equalizer no doubt using surface-mount ICs; (hello that's how Behringer can make their stuff so cheaply). However the signal passes though a pair of tubes.

Unlike the famous tube equipment makers, Behringer is up-front about the fact that the "warm" sound of tubes comes 2nd order harmonic distortion. The unique ciruit of the T1951 permits small, user controlled amounts of distortion into the signal -- dial up warm on demand.

Why did I buy such a whacky device? Easy: because (1) I want to experiment with an equalizer, (2) I wanted to experiment with a "tube input buffer" a la Musical Fidelity X-10v3 or Decware ZBOX, and (3) finally but not least, I'm a cheapskate. Other Behringer equalizers are $80 or more and the MF or Decware are $400; the T1951 is $130 and you get both