Originally Posted by
bigbossman
I sure wish that rat-bastid salesman had mentioned something about that when I was shopping for TV's.
Buying a new TV and coming out of the Dark Ages caused a pretty damn big technology refresh ripple in the BBM household. You and your brother caused me a lot of financial hardship - had to sell the Dancelli and a De Rosa.
Seriously, though - now that I have a decent A/V receiver plugged in (Onkyo NR-808), I'm pretty much good to go. The 200W/ch ADCOM GFA-555II comes off the test bench today, all tweaked and cleaned and ready to shoulder the 2-channel load to my Hales Engineering Group Revelation 3 main speakers. The Onkyo doesn't sound half bad though - and makes a pretty darn good surround-sound capable pre-amp, what with all the outputs and its 135W/ch oomph. And it even has a phono input - woot!
BTW - pre-game ride and Super Bowl party at my house. Shhhhhh....... don't tell anyone. Come on by, and drag that worthless brother of yours along.
As I recall that "...rat-bastid salesman..." did say something about the audio but it got brushed off at the time IIRC. Just so you know I talked to the same salesman and got hooked up the right way first time around. I heard he's gone now so good luck getting any more decent advice down the road.
I also just scored a not so vintage but very nice Pioneer VSX-3800 receiver that has 390 watts with a phono input for all of $8.00 to take care of my vinyl requirements. Now I just need some vinyl...
Looks like I'll have to pass on the Superbowl ride and game as I'm flying to Orlando, FL that day. Have fun without me. Guess you can have my brother over that day if you can talk him out of the fogbank that is the Central Valley.