did you listen to the Weiss DAC as well?

that would mean the RS2211+ which goes for RM5030 from C-Zone
http://www.synology.com/products/product.p...211%2B&lang=enu
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?stor...id=186687294898

well - it's enterprise grade stuff, not consumer level. you're probably paying for stuff that you don't really need, but then again, you don't get typical consumers going for 30TB rack NAS's

here's my noob setup for now:



40" Samsung Series 6 LA40C650
Denon AVR-2311
WDTV Live, Unifi STB, Samsung C5500 Blu-ray
Cambridge Audio Newton MC50 LCR sats from Creative Megaworks
IKEA LACK table, Tesco HDMI cables and in-wall Cat6 LAN

This post has been edited by ADJ: Sep 7 2011, 11:12 PM

here's a comment from a DIY speaker designer, John Krutke "Zaph", in the FAQ section for one of his pages (http://www.zaphaudio.com/ZA5/):

Any chance of designing bipole and/or dipole surrounds?
No chance of that, and I recommend a ZA5.2 monopole for surrounds. The reason is that typical bipole and dipole surround speakers are seriously flawed designs, and the issues can be very audible in most installations. With dipole, generally 2 woofers and 2 tweeters are mounted in an angled cabinet and wired out of phase. If you sit exactly on axis, it's a full null in response and all you get is a reverberant sound field comprised of the systems's flawed power response. Interesting and sometimes freaky spacious sounding, but not at all realistic. Going off axis, even slightly, will result in a seriously combfiltered frequency response. Bipole surrounds have similar issues except that they will only sound normal on axis. Off axis, comb filtering shows up fast, particularly if the design has two tweeters. A final bit of information is that most mixing and mastering studios use monopole surrounds because studio designers are also well aware of the problems of bipole and dipole designs. The commercial hifi market is loaded with bipole and dipole surrounds because people keep buying them.

no comment since I'm not a technical person...but interesting nonetheless

that's his personal opinion with some technical context. but in the end, it's really up to you to buy whatever sounds best to you

Did some DIY recently and placed my extra satellites as surround speakers. Really noob in drilling so I got my entire living room and my lungs filled with concrete dust..ack...
but the results are quite interesting.. paired with Belden 1311A cables from ckyongs that I got my contractor to install during renovation, with some DIY banana plugs from forum as well



my parents also went for long overseas trip, and since funds are tight, decided to "borrow" my dad's old Kef iQ7 floorstanders along with some transparent cables, still using my puny satellite center though. Previously was partnered with a simple soundstage tube amp, not much bass. Now with my 2311, I guess abit more, but not as much as newer generation speakers that I have listened to. Still a big difference in listening even though just some simple manual settings in the AVR, no audyssey yet The journey continues...



This post has been edited by ADJ: Apr 17 2012, 08:13 PM

haha, definitely not
I renovated my house, and changed all electrical wiring. In the process I got my contractor to put a pipe in the wall for the HDMI/power cables to run through, and run the rear speaker cables all the way to the rear of the living room as well. The only DIY was to wall mount my TV and install the rear speaker mounts on the wall.

will go back to the cubes when I have to return the floorstanders. right now the sounds is much more satisfying!

not yet, as of now I already have dirty looks from my neighbours slowly la, just a simple wage earner here

yea, the sub's amp went kaput due to a leaky cap, nothing that Mr Oh could do

i wish i did i ordered quite a bit from ckyongs for my rear surrounds, and expected to have sufficient balance for my fronts. however, the balance was stolen along with other electrical cables during the night by copper thieves, including my contractor's tools etc

This post has been edited by ADJ: Apr 24 2012, 03:50 PM

have you considered the Pioneer HTP-AJ3222 set? It's going for RM2699 at Harvey Norman including the AVR whereas others are RM2999. The main speakers are the Andrew Jones series, you can google for reviews. Sub is a local Pioneer Malaysia model though...

part of their Raya sales, still available until 9 August:

Pioneer Andrew Jones or TAD Andrew Jones

ahaha, sorry my bad, should have been Pioneer Andrew Jones *speakers* or TAD Andrew Jones *speakers*
even Pioneers have the super budget ones, all the way to the Series 7/8/EX line which isn't exactly..budget either

very unreal sound when I heard it in KLAV show, definitely in a totally different league

gee, kena again unreal experience laa

I have the set, using with a Denon 2311. Got it as a gift, but considering the price that it sells for, minus the cost of the receiver, I think it's really really good for non-demanding casual users. It is easily better than most satellite systems/HTIB, and brings down the cost of entry for "proper" speakers.
Something like, if you wanted to get floorstander/bookshelf/center/sub system, but even the cheapest brands would require like RM3-5k, then now you can get this for much lower than that, and the quality is decent enough.
As always, always audition it, and if it's acceptable to you, and within your budget, then go with it. Assuming you get the cheapest HTP-AJ3222 set, you will get everything you need on the audio portion except for speaker cables. A simple RCA cable is included for the sub.
In KL you can audit it in most electrical stores that sell Pioneer products. Some reviews here (ignore the sub, the Malaysian sub is different):
http://www.analogplanet.com/content/tads-a...peakers-pioneer
http://reviews.cnet.com/surround-speaker-s...oneer-sp-pk52fs
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-57490890...dable-speakers/
http://hometheaterreview.com/pioneer-sp-fs...eaker-reviewed/
http://www.audioholics.com/tower-speaker-r...oneer-sp-pk52fs
http://www.hometheatershack.com/forums/spe...tem-review.html
http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/a-great-bookshelf-speaker/
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/p...lr-loudspeaker/
hope this helps

This post has been edited by ADJ: Sep 11 2013, 04:58 PM