Fading Spaces
As I talked about in this post, I recently replaced my older Denon receiver with a new Onkyo TX-SR605 one in my home theater. I also finally moved the A/V components to the stand underneath the television set. No more Tower O’ Components next to the television, which frees up even more space [...]
Component Switching
How I’m spending my Christmas vacation…
As expected, there was more snow today. Luckily I’m still on vacation and I didn’t have to be anywhere. As I mentioned back in this blog entry, I ordered an Onkyo TR-SX605 receiver. I ended up getting a refurbished unit direct from Onkyo for a total of $305. [...]
The Infinite Upgrade Cycle
I knew this would happen. When I upgraded to the new plasma TV, I told myself that would be the last major home theater purchase I would make for awhile. But now I’m starting to feel the itch to upgrade other parts of the system. I didn’t have much interest in the BluRay [...]
Bohemians Per Meter
In my previous entry, I alluded to the fact that there’s something else I’m doing to the MP3 files I’ve ripped from my CD Collection, as well as the ones I’ve downloaded from eMusic. I’m running MixMeister’s BPM Analyzer on the entire collection. This analyzes the track and sets the “BPM” (Beats Per [...]
Summer Of Upgrades, Three
Another upgrade I made this summer was to my TV set. I replaced my Sony KP-57HW40 57″ Widescreen CRT RPTV 1080i HDTV-Ready set (almost 6 years old) with a brand spanking new Panasonic TH-50PZ700U 50″ Plasma Widescreen 1080p HDTV.
Yeah, I know it’s a bit of a downgrade going from a 57″ to [...]
I’m Just Passing My Time
While I’ve been “away”, guest blogger InfK helpfully posted an interim message in the comments of the previous post. I felt I should elaborate on the points. So here we go:
Flasshe has been distracted lately, so I’ll try to help out with a simulated post based on a weighted average of his past [...]