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post #31 of 41
1/26/13 at 12:46pm
Make sure it will work with 6 ohm speakers. Should. But ask if it works with the Pioneers that they carry.

It's definitely not that the Lepai is incompatible with the Pioneers. Many people have reported using them successfully together. If it is a broken speaker, unlikely it would be both (possible, but much less likely). Have you tried running one speaker with the Lepai? Then the other?
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post #32 of 41
1/26/13 at 12:48pm
One other suggestion. Take your iPhone and the RCA cable you have, and "shop" for receivers at BestBuy with it. Test it out. Just to make certain that it's not the iPhone jack or the cable.
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post #33 of 41
1/26/13 at 1:23pm
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do you think i can take the speakers to best buy and ask them to hook them up to one of the display receivers? just to test them out
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post #34 of 41
1/26/13 at 1:27pm
Not unless you bought them there.
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post #35 of 41
2/24/13 at 11:04am
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so it turns out Newegg had sent me defective speakers. Replaced them with Pioneer BS22. Also got rid of the lepai amp and got an Onkyo 509. Very pleased with the sound overall.

I'm looking to buy Sony SS-F6000. I'll use these as the fronts and move the pio to surr back. Would this be possible because the speakers are different brands? I know there will be tonal differences which I doubt my noob ears will notice. Sony-SS-F6000 are on sale till Thursday so any input before that is greatly appreciated.

Thank you
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post #36 of 41
2/24/13 at 11:07am
Not as big a deal for the surrounds to match the front. However, the problem with the sonys is that there is no matching center channel if you want to run 5.1. Sony does not make one. Either using the same exact speaker as the left/right or a center created to match it in the same speaker model series is important for timbre match for a good front sound stage.

What do you hope to get from the Sonys that you are not getting from the Pioneers? By all counts, the Pioneers are a better speaker in terms of overall SQ.
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post #37 of 41
2/24/13 at 1:27pm
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Originally Posted by lurch0101 View Post

so it turns out Newegg had sent me defective speakers. Replaced them with Pioneer BS22. Also got rid of the lepai amp and got an Onkyo 509. Very pleased with the sound overall.

I'm looking to buy Sony SS-F6000. I'll use these as the fronts and move the pio to surr back. Would this be possible because the speakers are different brands? I know there will be tonal differences which I doubt my noob ears will notice. Sony-SS-F6000 are on sale till Thursday so any input before that is greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Have you thought about completing the Andrew Jones Pioneer system and buying the towers and center to accompany your current bookshelves?

I've heard the Andrew Jones complete set and was very impressed for the price. When Amazon is running them on sale, you can get the towers for about $100 each and the center for $90 if I remember right. At their price point, you'd be hard pressed to beat them. Best Buy carries them, and if you wait until Amazon has them on sale, you can have them price matched so you'll pay Amazon pricing + tax, but be able to return them if they aren't what you were hoping for.
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post #38 of 41
2/24/13 at 1:38pm
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Have you thought about completing the Andrew Jones Pioneer system and buying the towers and center to accompany your current bookshelves?

I've heard the Andrew Jones complete set and was very impressed for the price. When Amazon is running them on sale, you can get the towers for about $100 each and the center for $90 if I remember right. At their price point, you'd be hard pressed to beat them. Best Buy carries them, and if you wait until Amazon has them on sale, you can have them price matched so you'll pay Amazon pricing + tax, but be able to return them if they aren't what you were hoping for.

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This is a great strategy, even if you have to wait a while. If you are itching to buy something right now, get the center. Then wait for the towers to go sale.

Or go ahead and get you a sub. You might find that you don't need towers because of the bass the sub provides, and the towers can never make up for the low bass coming from a sub. Newegg has the JBL SUB150P on sale for $150 after promo code EMCXVWL99 (sale ends tomorrow). That would be a great sub to use with the Pioneers.
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post #39 of 41
3/7/13 at 9:18am
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Thanks for the input guys. Since matching the fronts is more important than matching the surrounds I went ahead and got the pioneer center channel from the same pioneer bs22 line. Wow....what a difference it, not that it was bad with just the bookshelfs but now I can actually hear the dialogue better and clearer than before.

Amazon wouldn't just adjust the price so I had send the fronts back. Using the center alone, would it hurt the receiver or the center? A new set of fronts should be arriving in a few days.

How important is to get the matching surrounds? From what I've read the surrounds are only for the effects so they're not being used all the time. Can I just get these Dual? Would these be horrible? These are 86dB and pioneer bs22 are 85dB


and this is a question for the Onkyo 509 which I posted in the owners thread but maybe you guys know the answer....

Is there anyway I can play music through the receiver while playing video games. Sometimes I just mute the game while playing and listen to music. When I try to do this, it just switches the mode. Is it possible to play games and listen to music at the same time not using zone 2.

Thanks
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post #40 of 41
3/7/13 at 9:23am
No. It won't hurt to use the center to use it without the other speakers.

Matching surrounds are not nearly as important as matching the front three. Sure, there is some benefit from it, particularly people notice it with 5.1 music listening.

However, I would guess that those Duals are not nearly the quality speakers that the Pioneers are. So I think you would benefit from waiting until you can get the Pioneers instead.
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post #41 of 41
3/9/13 at 8:36am
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I'll wait till the pio go on sale. I'm currently looking for a second set of bookshelf speakers...was wondering if $50 is a good price for a pair of workinh Boston Acoustic A40 ?
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