Re: Heaset vs headphones & stand alone mic?

stop trying to move to topic back on track! its about the godliness of Italian herb and cheese bread.. continue moe

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What is this italian herb and cheese bread you guys are talking about?

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orion is cheap crap, no comparison to yamaha denon kef etc

and also is car audio not home cinema

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Its a type of bread for subway subs. It pretty much ruined all other bread for me.

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ahhh subway, its our next carpark challenge’s punishment.
Loser eats a foot long honey oat filled with jalapenos topped off with a tube of wasabi and a slashing of chipotle sauce.

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orion is cheap crap, no comparison to yamaha denon kef etc

and also is car audio not home cinema

Indeed its for car audio but it sits very high up in terms of quality. The amps are made by hand (majority of it). Have you seen the size of those magnets? Now that is what a subwoofer magnet should look like. U wnated a sub and the Orion will definetly blow you away lol.

Yamaha have been going down hill and are not considered to be one of the best anymore. Kef, marantz, denon, harman kadon… just to name a few are very good.

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ahhh subway, its our next carpark challenge’s punishment.
Loser eats a foot long honey oat filled with jalapenos topped off with a tube of wasabi and a slashing of chipotle sauce.

You say this like jalepinos are a bad thing. Harden up cheekeh!

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You say this like jalepinos are a bad thing. Harden up cheekeh!

Nah, the jalapenos are designed for the afterburner action. The actual bad thing eating wise is the tube of wasabi or however much is needed for the footlong 🙂

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orion is cheap crap, no comparison to yamaha denon kef etc

and also is car audio not home cinema

Indeed its for car audio but it sits very high up in terms of quality. The amps are made by hand (majority of it). Have you seen the size of those magnets? Now that is what a subwoofer magnet should look like. U wnated a sub and the Orion will definetly blow you away lol.

Yamaha have been going down hill and are not considered to be one of the best anymore. Kef, marantz, denon, harman kadon… just to name a few are very good.

yeah ill be lookin to upgrade my system soon (once plasma is paid off) i currently have a ” yamaha package home cinema” got it real cheap at time but it was better then most systems for twice as much, very happy with it!

was thinkin bout going with some meridian gear but they very pricey (can pay up to almost 50k for a reference dvd player) will prob end up going with marantz amp and havin decided on speakers yet but want 7.1 as currently have 6.1.
considering something from kef audio or energy loudspeakers maybe even wharfedale but i found them to be very flat sounding
and i also do agree yamaha has slipt a little but they still better then most when it comes to home cinema

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I have Bose LifeStyle 38 Home Theater System, I love it, works great in a unit at least. I get complaints lol.

@morbit How much you willing to spend? The only issue I have with 7.1 channel home theatre systems is that the middle two speakers reproduce sound and are ‘not real’ and not many videos/audios are designed for 7.1 channel therefore its ‘synthetic’ sound coming from those middle side speakers. Bit hard to explain but true surround sound comes from 5.1 so when you see…OMG 7.1 CHANNEL SURROUND SOUND..you really are getting 5.1 and IMO its not worth it.

I hate it when they do that because its part of marketing and I was a sucker at the beginnign as well untill I did some research and found out that 5.1 is what you really only need and that those two extra speakers are really just there so you can say OMG I HAS SPEAKERS 360° around my comfy sofa.

Wharfdale speakers are quite good I think, but Bose is overrated and over marketed IMO. I’m not saying they are bad but you can do alot better and for someone who is not into audio tech would think OMG BOSE IS DA BEAST…but its not.

Anything is better than SONY though lol.

research again death 🙂

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_TrueHD

in fairness same as with dts audio, most blue ray may not be encoded with this sound track , as with dts on dvd it was rare to find a movie with this quality sound track, although this was mainly due to the massive size of dts audio so simply would not fit on disc without applying compression, the other factor is expense, however blueray is not as limited in the space area so epense should be the only factor.

looking at spending up to prob 6k, thinking 2k on amp 4k on speakers

and although truehd sound may not be on all discs, if have good quality amplifier/reciever it will replicate the sound to these speakers quite well and if nothing else give better room fill

research again death 🙂

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_TrueHD

in fairness same as with dts audio, most blue ray may not be encoded with this sound track , as with dts on dvd it was rare to find a movie with this quality sound track, although this was mainly due to the massive size of dts audio so simply would not fit on disc without applying compression, the other factor is expense, however blueray is not as limited in the space area so epense should be the only factor.

looking at spending up to prob 6k, thinking 2k on amp 4k on speakers

and although truehd sound may not be on all discs, if have good quality amplifier/reciever it will replicate the sound to these speakers quite well and if nothing else give better room fill

Lol can u imagine needing to run an extra DVD player in unison with the audio and video. A friend of mine has the complete pakcage for 7.1 and honestly I cant hear any difference in how sound is meant to achive the purpose of hearing that things happens on the sides or behind you. Its just loud from the sides as well instead of front and back only. Perhaps he did not have movies which had those additions so that you may experiecen better sound in 7.1 thna 5.1..i dont know.

I still find it that 7.1 system has not been used for its purpose and it just gives you those extra speakers on the side so you get more sound coming out.

There are some good marantz amps/receiver ive seen for $1400-1600. As for speakers I was suprised to find Wharfdale in JB HiFi (around $0.8-1k for columns i think). The problem with general electronics stores is that you tend to have limited choice and low-mid range items which you might have to buy seprately and with specialised stores they tend to overcharge you and set a package and if you want to chagne they will once again charge you extra.

You said you have a plasma to pay off atm? what brand…why didnt you get LCD instead..did you buy it ages ago?

You said you have a plasma to pay off atm? what brand…why didnt you get LCD instead..did you buy it ages ago?

bought it about 12 months ago, its a panasonic neo plasma actually its this one: [url] http://panasonic.com.au/products/detail … ectID=5104[/url]

wouldn buy lcd as they are not as good as plasma, for ..anything really..unless you like over bright fake looking pictures with over exaggerated colours also lcd can NOT handle moving pictures well, even the new so called “led” lcd, they have better picture but are jerky in any kind of fast moving action scene, also they are not really a led panel the backlighting has been changed from florescent to led that is all. also they still havin matched plasma for there superior black levels /contrast (but are getting close with some of the new LOTS more expensive units)

hands down for cinema, plasma!

organic led is the technology they are trying to cash in on by marketing there panels as so called “led” panels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_LED

and totally agree with the hole jb hifi vs specialist shop thing, so will definitely be shopping around first 😀

You said you have a plasma to pay off atm? what brand…why didnt you get LCD instead..did you buy it ages ago?

bought it about 12 months ago, its a panasonic neo plasma actually its this one: [url] http://panasonic.com.au/products/detail … ectID=5104[/url]

wouldn buy lcd as they are not as good as plasma, for ..anything really..unless you like over bright fake looking pictures with over exaggerated colours also lcd can NOT handle moving pictures well, even the new so called “led” lcd, they have better picture but are jerky in any kind of fast moving action scene, also they are not really a led panel the backlighting has been changed from florescent to led that is all. also they still havin matched plasma for there superior black levels /contrast (but are getting close with some of the new LOTS more expensive units)

hands down for cinema, plasma!

organic led is the technology they are trying to cash in on by marketing there panels as so called “led” panels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_LED

and totally agree with the hole jb hifi vs specialist shop thing, so will definitely be shopping around first 😀

We have a Samsung series 8 (46″) and I was watching Transformers recently and hardly any jerking of past paced images, it felt much smoother than in the cinema lol. Its not the LED/LCD version and its over a year old. ([url] http://www.samsung.com/au/consumer/tv-a … prd_detail[/url])

Plasmas are going to be phased out in the next few years due to one simple issule…ammount of power needed to run it. Europe is one of the first continents to remove it from the market, not sure when exactly but possibly 2012, so alot of the stuff will be imported here.

LCDs have gotten alot better and yes the main issue is(was) the refresh rate of those crystals and the lack of pure black colour, but they have beaten plasmas recently and the fast paced action is as smooth as through a plasma, the colour is great and it costs quite less to run it. The reason why peple think its crappy quality is because they slap their face onto the screen and think the pixel quality will be as good as in the CRO TVs lol. Neither plasma nor LCD are designed to watch from close up but from what I gather and have seen in the technological advances in Plasmas and LCD/LEDs is that LCD have improced alot and really have beaten plasmas now (well the new and high-end quality versions of LCD/LEDs). What you need to be aware of is that the first few LED versions are not 100% LED but contain both LED and LCD technology. Organic LEDs are being trialed atm but their durability is of question.

I agree that LCDs have/had issues with image quality over Plasmas but Plasmas themself have issues, and one really needs to asess their needs from a flat screen TV.

My opinon is that I would buy an LCD over Plasma. My friend has Series 9 Samsung (52″ from memory) and we watch movies through BlueRay and the action sequences are great and smooth overall. If you do take a reall close look you do see some distortion in the edges as the image moves by but you really need to focus yourself and at closer range…whcih you normaly would not when watching a movie.