Please Recommend. Entry level home theatre system.

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The Entry Level
Submitted by eviltigerpaw on

I already have a HDTV with HDMI and a Denon avr2310ci 7.1 receiver.

All i'm looking for is an entry-level budget Home theater speaker system. It is a small room, and I want to focus on quality over loudness.

My budget is around 800 dollars. What would you recommend. Size is a factor, and I would like the smallest possible speakers.

I looked at the ORBS. are they any good?

Thanks.

SB Touch and Levinson 390S

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Digital Sources
Submitted by cshelton4 on

I have a new Squeezebox Touch that I am feeding into a Levinson 390S, using the coaxial input to access the DAC. The Touch sounds good playing internet radio, streaming with iTunes and WAV files off a USB drive.
However, I have not been able to play any 24/96 files from a USB drive [the front panel on the 390S shows no input]. I have tried 24/96 WAV and FLAC files.

I burned a 24/96 file WAV file onto a CD and played it on the 390S- it sounded terible- very thin and small soundstage.

Listening #96

Listening #96

Dec 20, 2010
When you play recorded music, you have before you a work of art with almost no physical existence at all; reconstituting it requires electricity, which will itself imitate the musical continuum represented by the bumps in the groove or the zeros in the datastream. When you listen to recorded music, you are listening to your household AC, and better AC equals better playback. That sounds obvious to me and you, even as it sends the technocodgers into paroxysms of puritanical indignation.

Book Review: The Cello Suites

Book Review: The Cello Suites

Dec 20, 2010
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece, by Eric Siblin (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009); hardcover, 318 pp. $24.

In his lifetime, J.S. Bach (1685–1750) was an obscure figure. He never lived in a major city, he didn't work in the musical form—opera—that in his era could propel a composer to stardom, and his style seemed antiquated to many. Bach saw a mere nine of his compositions published; when his consummate masterwork, The Art of the Fugue, appeared the year after he died, it sold just 30 copies.

Eric Siblin includes these and countless other facts in The Cello Suites, a book that will fascinate anyone who loves Bach's music. He notes, for instance, that Bach's four musical sons kept his work in circulation, that Mozart was mightily impressed by a motet he heard at a Leipzig church, and that the 12-year-old Beethoven raised some eyebrows when he performed The Well-Tempered Clavier in Vienna.

Monster Turbine In-Ear Speakers- $58.99 @ Amazon. Good buy?

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General Rants 'n' Raves
Submitted by theonlytime on

I saw that the Monster Turbine High-Performance In-Ear Speakers are on sale today only at Amazon for $58.99 (yesterday's price was $134.10). I'm looking for some new in-ear headphones and was wondering if anyone thinks this is a good pair? The reviews seem like they're great and just what i'm looking for (good quality and not too expensive).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Captain Beefheart: a Personal Memory

Captain Beefheart: a Personal Memory

Dec 19, 2010

The first part of a six-part BBC documentary narrated by the late John Peel

Born in January 1941, Don van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, died Friday, December 17, 2010, of complications related to multiple sclerosis.

Even though he gave up music in 1982 (beginning a successful career as a reclusive artist until hampered by the onset of multiple sclerosis), Captain Beefheart left an important and influential musical legacy.

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