Posts by M3 Pete

I have a Samsung TV that I bought 11 months ago. I registered the TV with the Samsung website, which is supposed to give me an extra 90 days of warranty. Can I still buy the Mack warranty?

I agree with RoboRay's last post, all well said. Certainly one of the reasons that BJC is more expensive is that nearly all of their cables are all hand-built by BJC in the USA. Monoprice sources everthing from overseas. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by krab If you have a high end system and want some cables that stay with that theme, go with BJC. They aren't that expensive. I do have a system that I consider more on the high (not the highest) end and...

Before monoprice existed, I bought a couple blue jeans RCA cables for digital audio. As krab says, they look nice and are very well constructed, and fairly priced. You will never lose any sleep by buying them, they are excellent...

Quote: Originally Posted by Majestyk What is the lowest this receiver has gone? There don't seem to be a lot of bargains that I can find. I saw one on ebay, that was dropped and had broken buttons, go for over $400. Go figure! $800...

And here is the finished install. The tweeters are about 6 feet off the floor, which is the recommended 2-3 feet above ear level. They are located directly in line with the primary listening area (the couch), as the room configuration...

Then came the wall mounting. Using picture hangers made the job super easy, since all you need is a hammer. No screw in anchors, no need to find studs, etc. These hangers hold 10 pounds with ease in just drywall. As you can see,...

Then I put the felt pads on top of the insert screws, to both protect the walls and isolate the walls from the speaker vibrations. Then I decided that was not enough, so I added some large white rubber bumpers that I had, just outside...

So here is how it looked as I mounted the wires. The Durasteel stainless wire is very stiff and hard to work with. Picture wire might have been easier to use. I tied the wire on as it showed on the package: make a loop, twist the...

I tried posting this to the Ascend Forum, but I ran out of room to post photos http://forum.ascendacoustics.com/showthread.php?t=4297 So here it is. I got tired of having fairly obtrusive Ascend CBM-170 as surrounds in my...