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Another Update – NuForce Icon

ShareOkay sports fans, time for another update, this time it’s audio related. I’ve talked a lot about my home theater but not so much about my desktop system in my home office.  I’ve talked about it elsewhere, mostly in the forum I created for budget minded people looking for good audio and home theater gear at reasonable prices, namely BudgetAVTalk.  I created BudgetAVTalk a couple of years … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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