Ok...so a friend of mine wants to put together a combination system. it will be surround and stereo.

he needs a reciever, 2 mains, and a DAC. He already has the rears, center, and sub.

he will be listening to music and movies.

now when he does his SERIOUS listening it will be all Vinyl...but that aspect can come later.

so...his budget is 5,000.00

I know that isnt a whole lot, but its what I have to work with (he really likes the "zones" aspect of his onkyo reciever(which is broken)..so multizone would be cool)

I do not recall ever reading a product idea on this forum so have no idea where to put it so...

Think of this..Today we have iPOD's that can store and play standard resolution CD quality files. I expect some fellow a bit ahead of the times will eventually crank out an iPOD that can handle 96/24 files, probably soon...so, my idea

With the media reporting Obama unwelcome at some campaign stops and the Repubs running both away from their last power trip and towards a return to ... what? 2008? or further into a fanciful, "principled" history via their Magical WayBack Machine, where's W?

I finally have gotten my EW Andra's hooked up. Pure bliss!
I feel as if I am hearing my music collection for the first time. These speakers are nothing short of spectacular in the midrange and high frequencies. The microdynamics are as good as it gets IMHO. Nothing, and I repeat nothing sounds constrained.

I am waitng for my ML 336 to get back from having its caps replaced, currently my Adcom 555 is driving them. I feel the Bass region could be better, but that could very well be attributed to the Adcom.

This is funny...the fellow hacked his local news's teleprompters

http://www.doubleviking.com/videos/page0.html/guy-hacks-the-news-13773.html

It is subtitled...

After listening to music for years using casual speakers, I decided it is time to give myself a treat and build up some hi-fi sound system. While working on this assigment, I have revealed how wide area I enter and at the moment I am flooded by information and try to find my way out of it. I would be very happy to hear an advice from the experienced.

I guess it could be useful, if I summarize what my expectations are:

hello,
i want to buy active monitors mainly for making music, they should also be good in listening to music too ?