Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI Cable

[sluggish]

Here's the latest gimic that I've found.  Did you know that copper is directional?

http://pipelineet.com/products/hdmi/

[olds442]

You are the only one arguing.   For me, there is no argument.  Bose sucks and there is better out there for less.

I will take my KEF's over them any day of the week.  My ears are great, that is why I don't and will never own Bose.

Onkyo FTW!

[Masherbrum]

Onkyo FTW!

Onkyo is coming under fire lately because of overheating issues on their receivers.    Integra is still the better product, but Onkyo is good.

[sluggish]

My next receiver will be a Denon.

[Masherbrum]

I'll be going Rotel if my Yamaha goes tits up.   

[sluggish]

I'll be going Rotel if my Yamaha goes tits up.   

A bit out of my price range.  Although...  If I had the cash lying around, I'd probably go for their RSX-1067 receiver.  You can get a nice Denon for around $1k...

[morfiend]

 Dennon is nice but dollar for dollar I'd get an interga amp.  Look at the headroom specs of both,this can be important if you listen at high decible levels.Movies can easily push some amp past the point of clipping,many instantanious peaks that some amps cant cope with.


  sound is like drag in an A/C,to increase the level 3 Db you must square the power,have a 9db peak and see how much power is required!


   YMMV.


     

[RTHolmes]

These are the monitors I would go with...

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audio/mackie-hr824mk2-studio-monitor-2010

I always loved Mackie stuff, they just came outta nowhere and kicked budget studio gear in the arse. sensible designs, tough enough, reliable enough, repairable enough, funny manuals too almost everything they released got used by pros, when the 24/32 input desk came out every guy with an SSL in their "home studio" had one flightcased as a transportable setup for writing. I used their first nearfield monitor, it was good for a first try.

[sluggish]

I always loved Mackie stuff, they just came outta nowhere and kicked budget studio gear in the arse. sensible designs, tough enough, reliable enough, repairable enough, funny manuals too almost everything they released got used by pros, when the 24/32 input desk came out every guy with an SSL in their "home studio" had one flightcased as a transportable setup for writing. I used their first nearfield monitor, it was good for a first try.

Yes Mackie has great manuals.  Cerwin Vega does too.  There's something to be said for a company that write owners manuals that you actually enjoy reading.  There was a line In a CV manual about the American Dental Association strongly discouraging the use of teeth to strip speaker wires...  Line6 has great manuals as well.

[clerick]

I'm still diggin these and their smaller bookshelf speakers too.

http://www.friedproducts.com/studio7.html