Still not to shabby if used in a "normal" living room, congrats! My Onkyo has 185 watts apparently (probably 80 to 100) and I could blow the windows out of my house if I had the right speakers, so I think you have power to spare.
I've never used my old Denon at full volume...and if you have efficient speakers you can have a modestly powered source and be fine
I've never used my old Denon at full volume...and if you have efficient speakers you can have a modestly powered source and be fine
, and I have never even turned my budget speakers full throttle.
Just itchin' to get some of those ripped like the Elton John's and a few hundred others. I've only read up on the oppo machines (software) for this; so please let me know how your Sony adventure goes.
Hey beerking I may be learning about ripping SACDs from you pretty soon
, us audio types are a real fun bunch aren't we? I've read quite a bit over at AVS forum but I really dislike it because of all the ads/scripts running, gags my Win. 10 laptop (my Win. 7 main computer handles those much better.) However there is a lot of good info to be had over there, that's were I read up about the Oppo 205 and learned that Kal is the man on that subject. The biggest issue is my lovely wife (who loves music) but also thinks that A/V equipment including speakers are Appliances, and shouldn't be seen. What really burns my ass, is I can afford real nice floor standing speakers but that may never happen. Does this sound familiar to any of you out there? So when we bought our house around 2004 it had a nice big hole-in-the wall for A/V equip ,which I designed and installed cabinets into, and thought I'd be in heaven. Here's were you young Pups need to listen up! If you're buying a home with one of those hole-in-the wall areas Ruuunnn, don't even think about it. It is a cabling fucking nightmare! There is no room to work and change things out when you need to, and you will need to. I'm thinking a good setup is something like Gene has (GOS), just simple open shelving with room to get behind your equipment and make changes. GOS may act like a goofball, but I'm bettin' he's one smart cookie! So I see a lot of changes coming my way this year and hopefully some new equipment (especially an AVR with HDMI) which will makes things much easier.Well Clint you've really opened the flood gates now amigo!
First off, J.Pupster learning from Batpig
As far as my Marantz AVR-8500 I believe I bought that new like you did, I got it for sale in it's second year (think I paid about $1,500.)
Also bought my Denon DVD-3910 just before it went off market and got a great price on that (also new.) I'm lucky enough to have a spare room available that I'm putting together a small secondary system that will be hooked up to a computer, but mostly will be for analog stuff like SM-V2, vinyl records (Technics table with Rotel preamp), Reel to Reel (Teac A-2340) etc. The main goal of that setup will be for analog to digital conversions and listening to stereo to Quad upmixes from the SM-V2. I would also like to take a shot at making my own upmixes of albums that'll never get released in surround.
My main system is in my Family room, which creates problems. It's one of those rooms that is open to a dinning area, kitchen and nook area, so it's large. There's also no where to put rear speakers so I'm stuck with rear ceiling speakers
Hasta luego my hard charging quadie compadres!
Well Clint you've really opened the flood gates now amigo!
First off, J.Pupster learning from Batpig
As far as my Marantz AVR-8500 I believe I bought that new like you did, I got it for sale in it's second year (think I paid about $1,500.)
Also bought my Denon DVD-3910 just before it went off market and got a great price on that (also new.) I'm lucky enough to have a spare room available that I'm putting together a small secondary system that will be hooked up to a computer, but mostly will be for analog stuff like SM-V2, vinyl records (Technics table with Rotel preamp), Reel to Reel (Teac A-2340) etc. The main goal of that setup will be for analog to digital conversions and listening to stereo to Quad upmixes from the SM-V2. I would also like to take a shot at making my own upmixes of albums that'll never get released in surround.
My main system is in my Family room, which creates problems. It's one of those rooms that is open to a dinning area, kitchen and nook area, so it's large. There's also no where to put rear speakers so I'm stuck with rear ceiling speakers
Hasta luego my hard charging quadie compadres!
A Cinepro line conditioner/ multi outlet rack unit with 2 outlets that are delayed turn on. Also has 2 pull out lights.
A Sony UBP-X1000ES bluray player that has already quit working properly with less than 1/2 hour of playing time on it .
