Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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#92,234
DinkinFlicka said:
Wait do you have multiple receivers?

Tell me why.
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From what I gather, 1 is for the 7.2 surround sound in the living room and the other is for the outside and other parts of the house. I should be able to have a 5.1 system on my back porch hooked to the TV there and when we get a pool installed be able to play music around the pool at the same time or play music on the back porch and by the pool. Supposedly I could be watching a movie in the living room and the wife could be listing to music in her office or the bedroom or bonus room too. Again, I think he went just a tad overboard but he's pretty proud of what he came up with. He used to work for an AV company in Nashville so I assume he knows what he's doing.
 
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hog88 said:
All of the speakers are Polk, 1 receiver is an Onkyo and the other is a Denon. No idea about the amps and other components, he explained why I needed 2 receivers but I have no idea what he said but it sounded like he knew what he was talking about and I already had the Denon.
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That sounds like a high end system.with top shelf components. Bet it sounds amazing. Will last longer than any of us. I am like AM64 though...decades of power tools all day and then listening to music loud so I can still feel it have my hearing too damaged to be an audiophile. I just need a good receiver and a couple speakers that really thump and I am good haha. Polk makes some great speakers.
 
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Orangeburst said:
keep expecting to check VN where Hoople says screw it, outta here.
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If the fanbase runs him off over losing 3 games in a season where Vegas put us at 8 wins and SEC media picked us to finish 9th in the conference...i am gonna spend the rest of my life trolling every moron on this site calling for his job. So stupid. He is on everyones short list with Kiffin from LSU to Flarda to Barn to Ole Miss when and if Kiffin likely leaves. They will make offers when Kiffin turns them down IMO. Penn st would love to have him too and probably OK when they fire Venables after they lose 2 more games...though us beating ourselves and giving him that win might just save him this year.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
All the best audio systems i have heard in my lifetime were built 1 piece at a time from components. Yes you can drop $10k or more and get an entire system from Bose etc ... but the best sounding and by far hardest hitting systems I have heard were built by audiophiles 1 piece ar a time over many years. When someone knows what theyre doing selecting components and speakers etc the results are truly impressive in comparison. You can also buy a used BMW , or a new Ducati for what is eventually spent over time 😆
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I bought my original Pioneer components while stationed on Okinawa years ago, and for the most part have just upgraded until definitely none of the first or second generation equipment is included. The Onkyo receiver I bought as "factory restored", and it was well worth the purchase. My thought was that new equipment is built, boxed, and shipped; if rechecked or repaired, it at least required a technician to insure it worked. That purchase brought me up to 5.1 sound. Later I started improving with new speakers, and that's when I ran across Definitive Technology. Had the opportunity to listen to them in a sound room full of other higher end speakers - they passed the test on cost and sound.

The story gets weird when I started my speaker research online. I found new Def Tech speakers at a great price on Ebay, and ordered a pair after checking out the company as much as possible. When the speakers came, the shipping labels on the boxes indicated they went from Def Tech to their warehouse (probably FedEx) in Memphis. The speakers were new and unopened in perfect condition. I wound up upgrading that pair to the top of the line with the same result. Sound was fantastic. A little more poking around showed the Ebay company was owned by a guy named something like Bill Rudder - old TN football fans will recognize that name. Turns out he was something like a VP in Def Tech or the parent company. So I just added more speakers - a center that I later upgraded and then a subwoofer. The sub is phenomenal very clean - not the boomy, muddy sound that so many subs have. It will absolutely shake your chair while the sound is crystal clear.
 
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LouderVol said:
make sure you, or someone, can still access those systems.
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We need to hack hog's system; some late night entertainment would be in order. I'm not admitting to anything, but I do know a bit about being able to play music (or maybe drag races) over the Hess Hall intercom system. Actually got kicked out of Hess for that, and I wasn't even the culprit ... at least that time.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
One word. Sonos. Thank me later.

I used all Polk Audio in wall/ceiling speakers. Outdoor are Proficient Audio
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My brother went with Polk speakers with some in wall. Nice sound. Polk and Definitive are somehow related; both are owned by the same parent company, and apparently share technology. One thing I've never really figured out that just works - is the passive reflectors in the speakers. They look like a top mounted speaker except there's no voice coil to drive them. The air pressure inside the cabinet moves the cone rather than venting through a port or compressing it in an unported cabinet. It seems like there would be phasing issues which would even vary across the frequency spectrum; but whatever happens, works very well.
 
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saw a good doc on youtube about the making of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly..apparently on that CW bridge scene, the Spanish Army rigged the bridge with a crapload of explosivs, and due to language barrier, dude with button thought he was to detonate, and no cameras were rolling..lol. The Army had to rebuild it over next 3 weeks,

Good stuff. Recommened by Siskell and Orangebust. 👍👍
 
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