Category Archives: Audio & Home Theater
Media Streaming & Plug Computing – Part 1
ShareI love to listen to music. Music allows me to escape from the day to day grind. Most of my listening happens in my home office. Serious listening occurs in my home theater. Donna likes to listen to music in our bedroom and we’ll also turn on music in our family room. I’ve converted all our CD’s into digital format. About half the new music … Continue reading
Home Theater – Almost There…
ShareThanks to Donna, my home theater is almost finished, and it only took about 8 years (I know, I know, I need to pace myself). Here are some pictures. If you have any questions leave a comment. Note: If you select Audio & Home Theater from the blog categories on the right you can see a previous blog of how things looked when I started … Continue reading
Home Theater – New Additions to the Family – Old Friends Must Go. (Sold)
ShareI’m happy to report the equipment below has been sold. I’m happily enjoying the latests updates to my home theater. In the past few weeks I’ve purchased a Marantz 5003 receiver and Sanyo PLV-Z60 projector. The links will take you to where I purchased them. I’ll have more to say on those at another time, but this post is to let you know the fine … Continue reading
For Sale…
ShareThe following equipment has been sold to a great guy from New Mexico – Enjoy Kevin. I need to provide new opportunties for some of my home theater equipment. These speakers and subs have served me well the past year, but time has come to let a new owner appreciate their value. Up for sale are a set of AV123 X-Statik speakers and an AV123 … Continue reading
Maggie’s Got Something to Say to Me
ShareI’ve swapped out my x-statiks for my Magnepan MMG’s to see what they sound like. I listened to Norah Jones and Peter Gabriel yesterday and watched An American Gangster last night. I’ll keep listening, but I think these are keepers and I will be selling my x-statiks.
Latest Updates to the Home Theater
ShareThe technology of my home theater hasn’t changed much recently but I am making improvements. An area often overlooked in home theaters is the acoustics. Many experienced enthusiasts will tell you the biggest improvement you can make in the sound of your theater is to add acoustic treatments. For what it’s worth, one of the other biggest is to clean out your ears. Here are … Continue reading
Dave’s Home Theater
ShareSome quick pictures of my listening room (equipment is for sale) and home theater. I’m selling because my experiment with a “listening room” no longer made sense. I already had perfect good equipment in my home theater and adding this stuff was simply not financially sound. Especially since I will be needing a new projector in the next few months. Let me know if you’re … Continue reading
How to Find Quality Audio at Budget Prices
ShareI’ve created a new* Internet forum dedicated to those who enjoy music and movices but don’t want to spend a lot of money on audio and home theater equipment. If you’re in the market for a receiver or speakers or subwoofer etc., it’s become tougher and tougher to figure out what to buy. Tweeters has gone under and Circuit City isn’t far behind. You want … Continue reading
