swajames

That's the sub I have, the B&W PV1 is just phenomenal. It's been What Hi-Fi's sub of the year for the last couple of years. It weighs a ton, and it has two subwoofers which are mechanically linked so that as one pushes the other pulls to cancel out vibration. Performance with music and video is just awesome, I highly recommend it.

kscarrol

Rudy! Do I need to remind you of the Lounge's "mission"?

"How was your day? Anything goes but please keep it PG-13!"

UUronL

The TV selection is super super easy. Given your requirement for black levels, it can only be one of the Samsungs with LED Smartlighting. Licensed from a company named Brightside, the panel is lit by a matrix of white LEDs. The processing adjusts the lighting of the underlying LED matrix based on the media content and can even turn them off completely in areas (or on the entire panel) to achieve unrivalled black levels.


Samsung LN-T4681F




This is a review of the original $50,000 37" Brightside. It needed to be liquid cooled due to the power and heat used and generated by the LED technology a few years ago. Fortunately, Haitz's Law (kind of like Moore's Law but for LEDs) has permitted the technology to be in normal LCD TVs now. No liquid cooling, much lower cost.


http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/10/0...tside_hdr_edr/8

Russ1974

And with such an amazing discount at Amazon, you need to snap this up quick! ;

List Price: $3,799.99
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MiamiPhill

Happy New Year Russ, I should have been more detailed with the cables....I meant HDMI cable specifically, I read somewhere that the quality varies wildly so I will go for anything that is of good value & performance. The other interconnects & speaker wires I can handle.
.....so no thanks, I'll pass on the $2500 XLO stuff.

Overall Budget... $5-6K most of that on the TV because my aim is great picture with satisfying sound, not top billing at Stereophile.

Phill

MiamiPhill

Happy New Year 'UUronL' and thanks for the tip, I'll start the research with this Samsung.

UUronL

Happy New Year!


You can see the TV at most Best Buy/Magnolia locations. Bear in mind that buying now means you'll be incurring the penalty of buying the latest and greatest technology. Both plasma and LCD costs are freefalling and analysts think prices will drop about 20% in 2008. Manufacturers of these kinds of TV technologies are counting on propping themselves up on the newest offerings. For plasma, it's the 8th Gen Pioneer (Kuro) which gets inky blacks through a polymer-infused glass substrate - kind of like a ND filter. For LCD, it's this technology. Either way, the new models are several times more expensive than really nice-looking TVs based on commoditized legacy technology.

JStraw

HDMI Cables: DVIgear.com. Look at their Super High res cables. They are the best. Run from Monster or any cable that the sell in stores.
Other speaker and Video cables: www.bluejeancable.com.

The Orb speakers also received great reviews. You may need a separate sub. Best sub IMO: Velodyne.

Good luck finding a receiver with only 14 1/2 inch depth. maybe separates??

Cheers

robg

To resolve the issue of putting components on top of the bedroom furniture, I made a series of brackets which I attached to the back of the dresser. I then placed the components in the brackets "front side up" so the front was about 1/2 inch lower than the top of the dresser. This will work for everything except the dvd player, (unless the dvd player has a center spindle for the discs to snap onto). The remote controls still work. And you do not need to move the furniture more than an inch or so further away from the wall than you would otherwise to accommodate plugs. Note, I did not do this with a high end A/V receiver which is typically taller than the other components and would require you to move the furniture a little further away.

Rob

MiamiPhill

Thanks for the info on the cables, would have gone for the reg. store stuff.
The Orbs come with a sub if you buy the system but I agree with you on the Velodyne, that's what I have in the living room.
As for the receiver....I'm going to need luck indeed, my Pioneer is 17 1/2 not including cable clerance.!