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What happened to Polky?

What are you guys talking about?

Back off already, '****...I know exactly what you are trying to do with the baiting already. Find someone else to jump on every time they lay a comment or thread down, alright? :rolleyes:

kuntasensei wrote: »

I was serious, Mike.

No, you weren't. Why would you possibly want to see a picture of my "measley, cheap and ineffective-for-professional-reviews" 605 in my rack? It doesn't make sense. :rolleyes:

Yes, Indeed...

Ricardo has chimed in YET AGAIN to antagonize and keep a bad vibe going in a thread -- this is getting predictable and pathetic. The pattern: Sees a response by '****, trying to pick yet another kind of fight because I do Blu-ray and DVD reviews on the site...IMMEDIATELY joins in with a reply attempting to feed the flame.

I'll focus my reply efforts on the member who responded regarding his Onkyo gear and say this in reply to the flame mongers: There's nothing in my setup that would cause the dialogue intelligibility issues (in terms of something blocking the center channel in its positioning, or in its positioning from the display; it's on a shelf on the stand a couple of inches below the display on a Bell'O glass and powder-coated aluminum stand blocked by nothing) and for whatever reason Ricardo doesn't THINK I have Onkyo equipment (as if HIDING that or lying about such a brand would be beneficial in any way) I do have what's in my signature, piece for piece.

McLoki wrote: »

I have never heard a DTS track that sounded as good as the DD track on the 777. I have heard other (newer) Onkyo AVR's that did not have a hint of this problem though - so the problem was clearly my unit or its vintage....

Strange. But interesting.

SoundArtillery wrote: »

LoManaco is kinda like Obama not showing his birth certificate

That's a bit unfair and below the belt; my "not showing" my Onkyo receiver and other gear in pictures doesn't automatically make me out to be some kind of "dodger" who is claiming to have thousands upon thousands upon thousands of dollars of esoteric gear of which I cannot prove...did I say I was running six Conrad amps and Crestron control modules all over my house, but I wouldn't show pictures of all that? No. I said I am running an Onkyo 605 -- a receiver which has plenty of power for my immediate listening room needs and features onboard decoding of the new codecs via HDMI 1.3a, so it is doing what I need it to do right now. Nothing to hide here; it's an Onkyo receiver. :rolleyes: Between getting back from my honeymoon and settling back in with my freelance job assignments and my home based business, I haven't had a chance to get fresh pictures of the setup posted.

why not just end the discussion?? If anything, it will increase your credibility.

What? How so? What does the credibility have to really do with anything? The discussion was merely about people leaving pictures and comments about their Onkyo gear in their rigs -- how will telling people to stop posting pictures of their gear "increase my credibility"?

I enjoyed your reviews when I was previously just lurking, but now I am left wondering whether your setup may have issues. As a reader, I'd appreciate seeing your rig. Just my 2 cents.

I appreciate when you read my reviews. Thank you -- as for my setup, I can tell you that many of the films I have found to be horribly weak in dialogue has been agreed with by other reviewers and enthusiasts I know; one that stands out in my mind is "CONSTANTINE" on DVD. Warner's Dolby Digital track, when this came out and I did the review on it, exhibited a horrendously low center channel delivery -- and many people agreed with me, so I couldn't have been "dreaming" this or imagining it. To this day, I STILL think it has a poor dialogue delivery, bordering on whisper quiet in sequences with Keanu Reeves. This doesn't happen with EVERY title I play in my system -- so please don't think that the setup of my "measley" TX-SR605 or lack of its pictures is in some way interferring with what I am providing you here. Seeing my rig isn't suddenly going to make you go "wait...I believe now! His 605 is awesome! It rocks! It's what's needed for home theater software reviews! HE HAS PROVEN IT!" so please, come on and be sensible. It has been accepted by my freelance employers that my particular gear is "suitable enough" for analyzing the soundtracks on all media discs right now -- VIDEO discs, that is, whether it be DVD or Blu-ray, even though Master Audio is not available to me via my Panasonic BD player. For these titles, I indicate where I needed to run the core DTS track for analysis.

SoundArtillery wrote: »

Hey, thanks for the response. Sorry, didn't mean to offend you. I have just a humble system as well. I'm only 2.0, but I like putting money into 2 channel until I can afford to get the same quality from 5.1.

No problem, Art. Just didn't think my situation was the same as Obama's. :rolleyes:

My concerns are not so much about your gear, just your general setup. I believe you are hearing what you write, I'm just wondering whether there are other reasons other than the engineering of the soundtrack itself.

Fair enough. Indeed, my center channel is positioned towards the sweet spot, on a shelf below my display (a Bell'O stand with glass shelves) with nothing blocking it or in the way of its radiation (sound waves) -- exactly where most people rest their center channels with stands such as this. And as I said, it does NOT happen on EVERY single title; just a handful I demo which seem to exhibit quiet dialogue output in spoken sequences.