(more later - need to take some additional pictures)
if you find yourself in / around the city of chicago and would like to come by and beat on the V's - drop me a line - i'd be happy to set aside some time for interested parties to have a listen.
Holy hell.... this thing is HUUUUGE. Find a dealer - check it out... you'll be hardpressed to find a better center channel anywhere. period.
Parasound JC-1
4 of these drive the V's
Parasound Halo A51
Lots of power for hungry applications. The a51 will eventually turn my 5.1 system into a 7.1 rig with its remaining channels.
Parasound JC-2
Since the C1 went away - i needed something clean for 2 channel. I probably don't need to say much more about this piece. It's built like a tank, runs hot, and sounds fantastic.
PS Audio PerfectWave DAC
should probably upgrade this too at some point...
Legacy Audio Wavelet
Dac / Room Correction - Oem'ed by Bohmer Audio.
Integra DTC 9.8
Probably should update this someday.
M&K MX-350 thx
Two of these babies vertically stacked really brings out the low-end in a 5.1 system. Drywall tape repair is a constant reality.
M&K SS-150
Not a bad little surround tripole. For now these litle guys will stay in my system until legacy makes a dipole/tripole that doesn't have to be mounted on my walls.
Samsung HL-T7288W
yes - i need a new tv.
Nvidia Shield
it streams stuff...
Belkin PureAV pf60
Pure crap - don't bother - avoid their power products at all costs. This unit is currently serving as nothing more than a glorified power strip. Originally purchased for noise in the lines caused by light dimmers, this unit ended up introducing more problems to video playback thn i originally had.
Ran some 10awg romex from an isolated sub-pannel to two hospital grade hubbell outlets. Results were quite nice.
Homebrew XLR - Canare L-4E6S w/ Neutrik NC3FXX
For less than 70 dollars retail, this produced 6 custom xlr cables. Much better than off the shelf guitar-center livewire :). Eventually i'll play with some more exotic wire/connectors. For now, i'm quite happy with the situation.
Speltz Anticables
Excellent bang for buck. Pain in the ass to work with. Still highly recommended
You know - i'll post some more pictures about the game on my page - i've been meaning to do that for years - as it's an alpha male's wet dream. To keep things simple, it's nothing more than a pc inside of an arcade cabinet w/ a 27 inch svga monitor. It plays all the classics thru software emulation. The controls are nothing more than a fancy keyboard hack (eg: p1 button 1 =a p1 button 2 = s... etc). i'll see what i can do about getting that handled this weekend. Comparing the game to the 360 is apples to oranges. Each excels at its charge to a tee.
Got a good 700 gb's of flac on a dedicated filserver - lossless is absolutely the way to go with the transporter. The collection started out with a whimper, just a few flac'd albums that i listened to consistently - and is now, simpy, and organic phenomenon. To the point that i went out and got an LSI Logic SAS raid board - just to guarantee i wouldn't ever lose any data. It's all raid5'd. Blech its a lotta disks. Don't know what i'd do without online capacity expansion.
As for the lumagen - you couldn't be more correct. I can't wait for radiance later this year. Those guys are truly masters of their craft.
Pure AV... for basic filtering - no problem. Just don't ever pay retail for em - they're not worth that at all (and don't expect miracles in the performance realm). The PF60 actually made a video noise problem WORSE... which, in my book, goes against mantra of all power filtering engineers "first... do no additional harm".
