Recent content by Bones13

Thanks for the suggestion. The time has passed, this round, to consider more wires, and drywall repair. If I were to remodel this room, I would definitely consider adding a few more speakers. Currently the "surround" speakers are on the back wall of the room, not ideal for the surround position...

Latest news. I probably will go with a generic Sony AVR. Will mesh with a Sony TV, it is "Sonos Ready" and will work well with the rest of the home Sonos System with the addition of at "Port" device. I already have one of those, and can try it out. It also meshes with a Sony wireless sub. This...

Total joint replacement was my medical specialty. There have been several acute diseases that have been "cured" through the use of Vaccines, and Antibiotics. An interesting anecdote that I heard once. It was not until World War II that you had a better than 50/50 chance of medical improvement by...

It seems that now the Apple Home Pod 2 will support streaming from Roon and Spotify. Has anyone tried this? Multi Room, and from a Mac Laptop. I guess if I want to try those, I would need an evaluation unit. The Marantz units do support HEOS, so that bears more attention as well. I mostly...

Sonos had a lot of issues with their new control program. Supposedly they worked more on incorporating the new headphone, and kind of “left off” and had bugs, with many of the major portions of the rest of the suite. Much of this has been corrected. Several heads rolled, and their stock is down...

Yes, we had a professionally installed Universal Remote Control at the beach house. The guy installed the in wall speakers to pre-installed wires. It was a nice system. The device was generic looking, but he had a whole programming (macro?) system that he programmed it with, using his computer...

I have 2 rooms I am working on setting up. My Main System will be in my man cave, and will continue to be a 2.0 setup with audio fed to the system via TOSLink. The den that I am discussing on this thread already has in wall speakers for a 5.1 system. My old Sony Receiver was left at the old...

I'm sure your speakers have something to do with the equation. Some speakers do very well with the (usually) less power of a class A, and some require Class AB or D to really wake up and sing. What speakers are you looking to use? I have read that many people (including myself) get a pre-amp...

We retired at the end of last year, and did the opposite, leaving Mobile, AL to move to Seattle. We are babysitting our 18 month old grand daughter half time (other grandparents do the other half) to allow my daughter, and her husband to work full time jobs. All my children left Mobile, and were...

Thanks Mike, I will continue to look at things. It’s always nice getting stuff through you. Pending my IRS calculations, that Cinema 70s looks perfect.

Thanks for the offer, that is going to be too big to fit in my cabinet.

Welcome, enjoy your musical journey in retirement. Lots of choices! Your room sounds great.

Thanks for the suggestion. There are 5 in-wall speakers in that room. Adding a sub will complete the 5.1. My man cave will sport stereo sound via TOSLink from the TV to the MSB DAC. There is even a “video” setting for the DAC that causes good audio-visual sync With multiple sources, having the...

I suspect I will get one of the slim line Marantz units, there look to be a few (perhaps different trim / release years). These look good, and are small. I want this den to be functional, easy to use, and fun. My study (man cave) will have an Apple TV and BlueRay player, but will be only a 2.0...

We should get our stuff moved to the new house in about a month. There is what we are calling a "den" where we will have our shared TV, and lounging area. The house was extensively remodeled in the '70s, including this room. There are in wall speakers for R/C/L and rears. There are also some...