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toothpic said:
Very nice. During this pandemic the stereo equipment I've purchased has had a great return value in enjoyment. Movies are spent upstairs now during our evenings and I upgraded the soundbar downstairs to a moderate 3.1 setup. Even though my wife says it sounds the same, I know there's a big difference and my enjoyment of it is enough for me :D
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Totally agree, same thing happened here back in Feb & Mar this year, Netflix is the only entertainment I can have... I might have watched more movies than the rest of my life during those 2 months, :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
 
SUN-FLY Poker Chips said:
Totally agree, same thing happened here back in Feb & Mar this year, Netflix is the only entertainment I can have... I might have watched more movies than the rest of my life during those 2 months, :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
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Sometimes I feel as though I've watched all of Netflix and Amazon Video. I know it's not really possible but I think I ran out of interesting things to watch. Started to watch videos on YouTube and music videos with the kids too.

Do you have a dedicated theater room or is it set up in the main living room?
 
toothpic said:
Sometimes I feel as though I've watched all of Netflix and Amazon Video. I know it's not really possible but I think I ran out of interesting things to watch. Started to watch videos on YouTube and music videos with the kids too.

Do you have a dedicated theater room or is it set up in the main living room?
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No I don't, I'd definitely get myself a dedicated room for hifi/movie system if I was living in a house with basement, but since I'm living in an apartment, I'll get complaints from neighbours if the volume is too loud, so I only set up the systems in my study and only turn loud during day time.

Sometimes I think, the most expensive hifi equipment is actually the house itself, lol.
 
SUN-FLY Poker Chips said:
No I don't, I'd definitely get myself a dedicated room for hifi/movie system if I was living in a house with basement, but since I'm living in an apartment, I'll get complaints from neighbours if the volume is too loud, so I only set up the systems in my study and only turn loud during day time.

Sometimes I think, the most expensive hifi equipment is actually the house itself, lol.
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So true! My first real HIFI home setup was purchased in 2012 when I was still living in an apartment. It was one of those that the rooms were all behind a front gate so all packages would go to the office and they put them in a storage room. I had ordered a moderately priced setup (Klipsch RF-82 ii, Klipsch RC-62 ii, Klipsch RS-52 ii, Marantz SR5007 and a PA-150 sub). For an apartment it was overkill, but I was thinking long term for when I get a house later. When I went to the office to pick it up I needed a rolling dolly to get them back to the room and the front office asked me to "Please be kind when using those and think about your neighbors." :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:

When we moved to a house I never built out the media room because it was used as a kid playroom. When the pandemic hit this year and we were stuck at home I decided to finally build it out. Upgraded a few things, got rid of a lot of toys and we finally have a new media room to enjoy. I should have done this sooner. Wife got a new couch so we put the old one upstairs and a couple of recliners we had in the bedroom were put upstairs too. Not full theater seating but great for now.
 
Psypher1000 said:
Yoooo...very cool! If I ever spring for good speakers in the home, you can bet they'll be hooked up to something along those lines.

How much heat does that thing generate?
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Not so much actually, feels warm if you put your hand on the transformer shell when avg. output power below 10 watts, it's pretty loud already, I've never dare to turn to 300 watts because it will definitely destroy my speakers....
 
toothpic said:
So true! My first real HIFI home setup was purchased in 2012 when I was still living in an apartment. It was one of those that the rooms were all behind a front gate so all packages would go to the office and they put them in a storage room. I had ordered a moderately priced setup (Klipsch RF-82 ii, Klipsch RC-62 ii, Klipsch RS-52 ii, Marantz SR5007 and a PA-150 sub). For an apartment it was overkill, but I was thinking long term for when I get a house later. When I went to the office to pick it up I needed a rolling dolly to get them back to the room and the front office asked me to "Please be kind when using those and think about your neighbors." :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:

When we moved to a house I never built out the media room because it was used as a kid playroom. When the pandemic hit this year and we were stuck at home I decided to finally build it out. Upgraded a few things, got rid of a lot of toys and we finally have a new media room to enjoy. I should have done this sooner. Wife got a new couch so we put the old one upstairs and a couple of recliners we had in the bedroom were put upstairs too. Not full theater seating but great for now.
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Pricing of buying a house here is crazy, how much is it like in the US? I heard it's somewhere around $400,000?
 
gmunny said:
Nice.. i am many steps below audiophile, but love looking/listening to the high end stuff many years back. I didn't realize they had separate speaker connections for different ohm speakers. that is super cool.
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I guess this is Mcintosh's marketing strategic, making the product seem to be like a vacuum tube amp while it is actually not. Technically speaking it should be self-adapting to different impedance.
 
SUN-FLY Poker Chips said:
Pricing of buying a house here is crazy, how much is it like in the US? I heard it's somewhere around $400,000?
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Home pricing here can vary pretty heavily depending on the city and location in the city. San Francisco and NYC within the central areas are on the expensive side. I believe SF average is around $1,100 per sqr ft? Maybe more.

In Austin central you can get a bungalow for around 500k. Nice homes downtown are closer to a million for their starting price. If you go out to the suburbs you can get something around 200k starting, but prices can quickly rocket upwards past the millions especially if you want to live near/on the lake. Yep, pretty wide variance depending on where.
 
Car for my Daughter. Hertz used car sales - great deal $2,500 below blue book value.

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toothpic said:
Home pricing here can vary pretty heavily depending on the city and location in the city. San Francisco and NYC within the central areas are on the expensive side. I believe SF average is around $1,100 per sqr ft? Maybe more.

In Austin central you can get a bungalow for around 500k. Nice homes downtown are closer to a million for their starting price. If you go out to the suburbs you can get something around 200k starting, but prices can quickly rocket upwards past the millions especially if you want to live near/on the lake. Yep, pretty wide variance depending on where.
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Well, it is still below 'million' level for you guys, here we have to pay several 'millions', and during the pandemic our goverment has release huge amount of credits to either enterprises and individuals which will definitely cause a new round of inflation. :dead:
 
toothpic said:
Very nice. During this pandemic the stereo equipment I've purchased has had a great return value in enjoyment. Movies are spent upstairs now during our evenings and I upgraded the soundbar downstairs to a moderate 3.1 setup. Even though my wife says it sounds the same, I know there's a big difference and my enjoyment of it is enough for me :D
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Yeah, even a modest system is so much better than crummy TV speakers! Years ago I spent some money on some decent speakers and a Yamaha amp that retailed for about $1000 (not serious audiophile territory, but nice). At first I would only turn it on if we were watching a movie or something special. But after a while I said "what the hell am I doing?" and just starting using it all the time. My old Yamaha still sounds great, but it has been retired to run my garage speakers because it has no HDMI, and I run everything through a Sony amp now, and it turns on automatically with the Sony TV and all works together and my kids can figure it out. Once in a while I'll come downstairs and they'll have managed to turn on the TV only and the sound is terrible and I immediately turn the amp on for them. The TV sound is so bad.
 
One Eyed Dollar said:
Yeah, even a modest system is so much better than crummy TV speakers! Years ago I spent some money on some decent speakers and a Yamaha amp that retailed for about $1000 (not serious audiophile territory, but nice). At first I would only turn it on if we were watching a movie or something special. But after a while I said "what the hell am I doing?" and just starting using it all the time. My old Yamaha still sounds great, but it has been retired to run my garage speakers because it has no HDMI, and I run everything through a Sony amp now, and it turns on automatically with the Sony TV and all works together and my kids can figure it out. Once in a while I'll come downstairs and they'll have managed to turn on the TV only and the sound is terrible and I immediately turn the amp on for them. The TV sound is so bad.
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Me too, maybe 30 years ago (ish). Bought some technics floor speakers 200W. Still using them today for the TV and they sound great. Technics is not a serious competitor in the speaker market today but they used to rock the house (literally). Similar to these

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My first speakers I bought with my own money were some Technics with 12" woofers from Circuit City! They're still in my workshop with my 3D printers and my old Onkyo receiver. And my old Technics tape deck is in the garage but it's got issues sadly.

My home theater speakers are a little weird, because I bought most of them used from guys that I worked with that did AV design. Commercial audio is an entirely different animal from the audiophile world. I've got a 5.1 system with Tannoy Reveal studio monitors and a 12" JBL sub. One time we had friends over and we were hanging out on the deck, and there was this weird loud sound. I quickly realized it was the sub and our kids were watching a movie in the basement.
 
Circuit City was one of my favorite stores for electronics. You used to get awesome deals there, sometimes involving rebates.

When Fry's started up around here they were amazing too but in the last few years their selection has been extremely limited. I'm afraid they are heading towards the same route and Circuit City. The only good store remaining would be MicroCenter but those stores are only in very limited cities.
 
CraigT78 said:
Car for my Daughter. Hertz used car sales - great deal $2,500 below blue book value.

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I'm about to close the deal and put the same grin on my oldest boy's face. Wife wanted to lease him something because leases are so cheap and the car would be reliable. I put the kabosh on that... 2012 Ford Focus hatchback is in his future, and he couldn't be more excited. He was driving his grandmother's 2006 Pacifica before that, so he sees it as an upgrade.
 
WedgeRock said:
I'm about to close the deal and put the same grin on my oldest boy's face. Wife wanted to lease him something because leases are so cheap and the car would be reliable. I put the kabosh on that... 2012 Ford Focus hatchback is in his future, and he couldn't be more excited. He was driving his grandmother's 2006 Pacifica before that, so he sees it as an upgrade.
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Hatchbacks are great! I inherited my dad's Ford Escort hatchback in college and that car could haul all kinds of stuff! It was surprisingly nimble too. No power, but the steering was tight and fun. Got a ticket once for doing 85 in a 55 and tried to explain to the cop that there was no way my Escort was going that fast... :LOL: :laugh:
 
WedgeRock said:
I'm about to close the deal and put the same grin on my oldest boy's face. Wife wanted to lease him something because leases are so cheap and the car would be reliable. I put the kabosh on that... 2012 Ford Focus hatchback is in his future, and he couldn't be more excited. He was driving his grandmother's 2006 Pacifica before that, so he sees it as an upgrade.
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Any car other than a van would be an upgrade for a teenager coming from a van :D . Van's are fun though because you can fit a lot of your friends in there but you then become the default driver for gatherings.
 
One Eyed Dollar said:
Hatchbacks are great!
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We've been car surfing for a couple weeks... He has picked some real stinkers (the last one required a complete shampooing of the back seat (seriously, I think there was a corpse back there at one time) and the AC and *THE STERO* didn't work... what kind of kid can drive in a car without a stereo?!). Anyway, I made a suggestion that included the 2012 Focus hatchback, a 2004 Lincoln LS (70k miles) and a 2005 Mercury Grand Marquis (50k miles). LOL, the latter two were shut down as grampa cars, but he really digs the hatchback.
 
toothpic said:
Any car other than a van would be an upgrade for a teenager coming from a van :D . Van's are fun though because you can fit a lot of your friends in there but you then become the default driver for gatherings.
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In 2006, the Pacifica was a station wagon.

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The car had 30,000 miles and my MIL was gonna sell it to him for $1500. He didn't want it. Luckily for him, she had a safety check done before selling it and found the engine cradle was rusting out... Part was impossible to find. She sold it to our mechanic for $3000 instead.
 
WedgeRock said:
In 2006, the Pacifica was a station wagon.

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The car had 30,000 miles and my MIL was gonna sell it to him for $1500. He didn't want it. Luckily for him, she had a safety check done before selling it and found the engine cradle was rusting out... Part was impossible to find. She sold it to our mechanic for $3000 instead.
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I totally forgot about that starting out as a wagon. I never thought wagons were nice cars until more recently with some of the new Audi or Mercedes wagons coming out. Some may say that's a sign of me growing old but it's me seeing the utility in the extra space a wagon offers while still enjoying the ride of a sedan and not an SUV.
 
When I got 18 (not 17) I was allowed to drive alone an old and cherished 1966 VW Beetle (back in 1987).
I was anxious about the impression that car would make on my first University-level date.
A friend of mine came up with a unique line: "If she asks you if your seats are in leather, tell her you c*ck is anyway guaranteed leather".:D
 

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