loomisjohnson

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Whats on your turntable tonight?
humble pie: performance/rockin the fillmore--it's been sitting on my stack for about a 100 years before i actually deigned to put it on. surprisingly, it's pretty great--the pre-megastardom peter frampton was a pretty good guitarist who eschewed a... 
Speaker suggestions
i tend to agree with paulsax--you can do better for less with other candidates. if you liked the maggy sound, i'd consider vmps, which are fuller range and much easier to drive. for a dynamic speaker you cannot go wrong with revel, paradigm signat... 
Does anyone have any experience with Emotiva ?
i've only heard emotiva's power amps, which are extremely good for their price--i can't speak to the emotiva cdp. however, from my dealings, emotiva registers as a fine, smart company with excellent customer service--i believe they offer a 30 day ... 
DVD as transport
i see a bunch of pioneer elite dv-45 and dv-47 units listed here for as little as $50. they have nice, well-made drawer mechanisms, read discs quickly and should do you nicely. 
Best Audio quality in Home Theatre Reciever? DVD ?
apparently the avr350 doesn't support hdmi audio, although it has hdmi video switching. this wouldn't be a deal-killer for me--i'm a 2ch music-first guy and generally apathetic about the endless, mind-boggling array of movie sound enhancements--i ... 
Modest Integrated to match with Klipsch RF-82's
sounds like you made a good choice. enjoy. 
DENON DRA-685 in 'protection mode' will not play
usually it means you're speakers are clipping--i.e. the speaker wires are touching somewhere. try rewiring your speakers and make sure the = and - aren't making any contact. 
Video Problem - No red spectrum in 720p format
i agree with rwwear--the setting on your display is most likely set to rgb (or to interlaced) rather than component (or to progressive)--use your tv remote to correct. you can try running the component out on your cable box directly to the display... 
Is the B&W 600 series a good value?
knownothing: i did know that the 600s were made in china, which does keep manufacturing cost down; however they're still imported by brits, which means that their price is jacked up because of the terrible exchange rate between dollar & euro (... 
Is the B&W 600 series a good value?
Personally, I'm not a B&W fan, although I actually prefer the 600 series to the massively overpriced 800/Matrix models. As to you central question, whether they're good values, B&Ws are almost by definition more expensive than many compara... 
Most helpful audio companies
emotiva is the epitome of how to establish an audio business in lean times--build a decent product, market it directly, which enables it to be priced substantially lower than comparable retail-distributed products, and be zealous about customer se... 
Modest Integrated to match with Klipsch RF-82's
cool. please let us know the results. klipsches are quirky, so it'll be interesting to see the synergy with the different amps. 
Modest Integrated to match with Klipsch RF-82's
beernut:i better grasp where you're coming from. if you're soured on arcam, get a cambridge audio--i see their 65w units (i think the model is 640) for as little as $300 on these pages. very nice, neutral sounding piece--certainly more lively than... 
Modest Integrated to match with Klipsch RF-82's
i recently bought an arcam alpha 9 on agon for a couple of hundred bucks and i'm really happy with it--rated at 65w/ch, but it roars w/lots of transparency. it's predecessors were a nad 325 (lots of oomph, but somewhat unrefined) and an 85w denon ... 
Does anyone like country
to my ears, 98% of what's marketed as country, including most of the mainstream cowboy hat stuff, ranges from inconsequential to really terrible (although in fairness, you could say the same thing about rock). the 2% of country that's good, howeve...