Getting into the 21st century....

[pgasus]

I have some venerable and serviceable S6s from oh, about a dozen years ago.... looking to upgrade finally but can't drop $1000, even with birthday money! Suggestions on midrange-priced offerings for fronts, center, backs? My particular preference is squarely in the middle, with some good treble side for vocal clarity, due to a bit of high range hearing loss.
thanks, troops!


ps. what is bi-wiring?

[Frank Z]

Take a look at the rt70, damn good speaker for the money.

[Airplay355]

am i being made fun of again? lol

[pgasus]

thanks Frank, I think they have those 70s at my local Circuit City. I am hoping to find "open box" deals on surrounds, liked that using center channel idea someone had. The S6's will do as rears for the time being.

Airplay, I left off your name from that "birthday money" part, but you picked up on it anyway! heheheh Unfortunately I'm too damn old to be getting birthday money anymore, darnit.

I'll report on what deals I find and see what everybody thinks before I go plunking down $$$.

thanx, g

[MxStYlEpOlKmAn]

airplay isnt the only one in this forum that gets birthday money or the youngest in this forum...lol

[RuSsMaN]

Whats yer' budget?

Cheers,
Russ

[faster100]

He said he can't put out $1000 bucks, so that means he will most likely only be buying mains at first i guess......?? I understand the money issue for sure, it always seems to hold me back on my upgrades HUH!

[pgasus]

And Faster gets the Kewpie doll this round! Yup, yer right, I'm taking baby steps and doing the mains first. I need to get out and comparison shop RT70s and others of the lineup. Went Halloween candy shopping last night instead.

Radio Shack has RCA amps in their "professional series" on sale at around $250/300 at 500watts, 100w per channel on surround..... any ideers on quality? More power than my Techics SAGX290 (at a big 50 w per at 5).

What does bi-amped and/or bi-wired mean?

off to work.....

[TroyD]

I think that you could probably do better than RCA for that kind of coin if you look at used....

search the archives for info on bi-wiring and bi-amping, there are a lot of threads in there that explain it.

BDT

[faster100]

Basic version: Bi-amp= when you use even separete amp channels to power high and low freq speakers separetly, power tweeters=1 channel, power mid/bass =1 amp channel, inside the speaker cabinet either from factory or home done the speakers must be wired separetly,

Bi-wire= same as above only you use 2 sets of speaker wire comeing from one amp channel, left channel 2 wire sets hooked into the single output and same for right of course. simple as that.. who knows if it improves much when bi-wire but bi-amping you are adding more power to the overall setup and speakers and a separated signal comeing from a even powered amp hence you can't put 100 wattsx2 and say a 125watt x2 amps together they have to be 4 equal exact outputs, 4 x ????
well i thought this was the simple version....