Home theater

42" 720P LG Plasma
XBOX360
Yamaha RX-V800 -- Receiver
(2) Definitive Technology BP 2002TL -- Fronts
(1) Definitive Technology C/L/R 2002 -- Center
(2) Shitty Sony towers -- Rears

Those Definitive Towers POUND......
 
Greg - The upcoming Emotiva XMC-1 has some incredible components going in it and could be a good successor to your Mcintosh while handling every input your can throw at it.. As is, the "lowly" UMC-1 I run is re-badged as a Cary unit and goes for $4100...

Yeah, the closet under the stairs was quite helpful in giving me the airspace I needed.. the "2.0" theater in a few years will be above the attached garage that's yet to be built and will be a full-on theater room (double layer sheetrock, asymmetrical walls, acoustically transparent screen, etc.) and will likely use 6 or 8 of these 18's, using the garage space below for the backwave.. It helps to not have close neighbors though, as the backwave is every bit as loud as what you're hearing. The clean sound of an infinite baffle sub is something to be heard with music though, it's amazingly transparent... and can also really dig deep.
 
Phillips 42" LCD
Sony receiver
Polk speakers
Velodyne Sub
WD Media Center setup with 1.5tb HD. Use to use linux with Mythbuntu but the box was too damn loud
1970s pinkish leather couch that is straight miami vice (family heirloom or something haha)
 
Rich said:
Greg - The upcoming Emotiva XMC-1 has some incredible components going in it and could be a good successor to your Mcintosh while handling every input your can throw at it.. As is, the "lowly" UMC-1 I run is re-badged as a Cary unit and goes for $4100...

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For $4100 I'm gonna need an on demand reach-around too. I ain't rolling quite like that.
 
1980CJ7 said:
Ya, exactly 5, 250gb drives installed in a custom chassis I put together ...the storage system runs something called openfiler. Raid5. If a disk fails, you put another in and no big deal.
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Or just drop $100 on a single 1.5TB and another $100 on an external w/nightly mirroring. Same effect @ a fraction of the heat/noise/power consumption.
RAID is not, was not, and never will be a backup solution. If you've had it for 4-5 yrs, building it is a little more understandable, but at that age, I'd seriously consider mirroring the whole thing off onto a single drive... and hope that you don't have a hardware failure while you're doing it.
Do you know the likelihood of having a 2nd drive fail during a parity build is upwards of 40%??
 
Rich said:
Greg - The upcoming Emotiva XMC-1 has some incredible components going in it and could be a good successor to your Mcintosh while handling every input your can throw at it.. As is, the "lowly" UMC-1 I run is re-badged as a Cary unit and goes for $4100...

Yeah, the closet under the stairs was quite helpful in giving me the airspace I needed.. the "2.0" theater in a few years will be above the attached garage that's yet to be built and will be a full-on theater room (double layer sheetrock, asymmetrical walls, acoustically transparent screen, etc.) and will likely use 6 or 8 of these 18's, using the garage space below for the backwave.. It helps to not have close neighbors though, as the backwave is every bit as loud as what you're hearing. The clean sound of an infinite baffle sub is something to be heard with music though, it's amazingly transparent... and can also really dig deep.
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I have no clue when it comes to the terms and etc with what your talking about....BUT i want it and want it bad :lol: haha Sounds very cool/nice.
 
BIGWOODY said:
For $4100 I'm gonna need an on demand reach-around too. I ain't rolling quite like that.
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No reach-around on that one, but it does toss your salad first.

Am I the only one that saw the article ~6mos ago about this sound-quality study some university did where they recruited a bunch of audiophile/home theatre people to evaluate different components in a lab environment?

What they found out was the testers were a bunch of men w/significantly impaired hearing that couldn't tell the difference between a $20k speaker and a Yugo's car stereo.

True story. I think I saw it on BB or Slashdot... :lol:
 
BIGWOODY said:
For $4100 I'm gonna need an on demand reach-around too. I ain't rolling quite like that.
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What I'm saying is, the UMC-1 that I bought for $699 goes for $4100 in a different case with a Cary audio badge on it. The XMC is probably going to be around $1300 though.
 
GSRswapandslow said:
$999 is what they just told my buddy.... he just bought 5 emotiva UA1 monoblocks and 5 6.3's...
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That's a smokin' price.. Though the pre-order list will take some time to work through...

Despite the little niggles, I'm really enjoying my UMC-1..
 
saf-t scissors said:
Or just drop $100 on a single 1.5TB and another $100 on an external w/nightly mirroring. Same effect @ a fraction of the heat/noise/power consumption.
RAID is not, was not, and never will be a backup solution. If you've had it for 4-5 yrs, building it is a little more understandable, but at that age, I'd seriously consider mirroring the whole thing off onto a single drive... and hope that you don't have a hardware failure while you're doing it.
Do you know the likelihood of having a 2nd drive fail during a parity build is upwards of 40%??
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:rolleyes:
storage is what I do for a livin'. I know enough to keep my shit wired tight. thanks.
 
GSRswapandslow said:
my buddy will be one of the first with the new model....and i'll prob just score his pimp harmon kardon unit for HELLA cheap when he does.
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Is he a regular on the forums there? What's his name?

I've been on the XMC pre-order list for quite some time as well.
 
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