Posts by Slare

You said I hit the nail on the head for what you want to do, a $20 smart strip will accomplish it. No trigger setup, no costly trigger hardware. Plus you'll have several other outlets that are effectively switchable with your AVR. My...

The L7's I bought had bad grilles, when I redid them I used black cloth and liked the looks a lot better. The silver grille styling provides nice contrast but to me it also looks dated. There's not much you can do with that giant L7...

No question, get in the car.

I assume you used to have an AC adapter running fan(s) that was simply plugged into the switched outlet of your old AVR... I do the same thing with the switched outlets on my older Denon. If this is the case and you don't actually want...

I'm a 100% believer in Audyssey but accuracy be damned I still do not like its results for 2 channel music listening. I had terrible results before learning all the tweaks to use Audyssey properly, but even the good results I still do...

Many of those Carver units are old enough now that they are due for service, mostly the caps need replacing as I understand it. Warning signs of needing the caps include hum/hiss on one or both channels, and to my understanding, the...

Looking back it may have sounded a little harsh, but you can pick up 180's for about $320 for a pair right now which is what why I posted in the first place. 5 channel kits have been out there at $500. The pricing seems really...

Quote: Originally Posted by rdgrimes I think most folks around here will say that the L890 would be a better choice. I think just about everyone in here would say the L890 is superior. But comparing current prices the 190's would be...

There have been a lot of deals on the new studio series popping up lately. Anyone with some insight into why? They have been around for awhile but were pretty hard to find. Now in the last month it seems like they are widely...

For what it's worth, I picked up a very old open box 3310 just a few weeks ago and big surprise it had a bad network card. I sent it to the Pangury (sp?) joint and got it back in a little more than a week, shocked at how fast the...