Remember how I said I was going to upgrade my audio setup? You'll never guess what I just did. Yes, I got a taxi into town (and then upgraded my audio setup by using a VISA card after hearing it demo'd). Then I got home and after wincing at blowing almost all of my last paycheck, I blew the rest of it by buying an amp to drive it all.
So, here's what I'll be using to listen to movies for the foreseeable future (why do I sound like a press release tonight?)
Front Left & Right: Monitor Audio Silver RS6s
Centre: Monitor Audio Silver RS-LCR
Rear Left & Right: Monitor Audio Bronze BRFX
LFE: MJ Acoustics Pro 50
For the amp, I managed to find one of the last Onkyo TX-SR875s for £650 (it still retails for £1000 in some places). The reason for the bargain being that this is an outgoing model. Not only should that make everything sound great, but the 875 also has the Silicon Optix REON deinterlacing and scaling chip inside, and apparently it's a good implementation too. So, I'll be able to take 480i or 576i DVD video from the Oppo DV-980H via HDMI and have the REON chip deinterlace and scale some of the more troublesome content, which confuses the player's own such capabilities.
Begone, unintelligible dialogue! Oh, by the way, in case you're curious, I'll be fixing up the design of this front page soon to get rid of this bland Movabletype generic layout.
So, here's what I'll be using to listen to movies for the foreseeable future (why do I sound like a press release tonight?)
Front Left & Right: Monitor Audio Silver RS6s
Centre: Monitor Audio Silver RS-LCR
Rear Left & Right: Monitor Audio Bronze BRFX
LFE: MJ Acoustics Pro 50
For the amp, I managed to find one of the last Onkyo TX-SR875s for £650 (it still retails for £1000 in some places). The reason for the bargain being that this is an outgoing model. Not only should that make everything sound great, but the 875 also has the Silicon Optix REON deinterlacing and scaling chip inside, and apparently it's a good implementation too. So, I'll be able to take 480i or 576i DVD video from the Oppo DV-980H via HDMI and have the REON chip deinterlace and scale some of the more troublesome content, which confuses the player's own such capabilities.
Begone, unintelligible dialogue! Oh, by the way, in case you're curious, I'll be fixing up the design of this front page soon to get rid of this bland Movabletype generic layout.
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