Guys home theater system

by snicholl on All Out Assault
How about that screen?
Infinity RS9 Kappa

Description

The latest changes have now satisfied my need to build the ultimate surround system. Sure its possible to better this system, but at what cost. I have less than $7.5k into this system. It's possible that I may add a sub at some point, but I do not seem to miss it at the moment. The TMREQ program of the AV-192R makes this solution almost sonically perfect. I have no particular desire to go high def and sonically BluRay would be a downgrade because the Tag bypasses the equalization when using analogue bi-pass mode. Makes sense. Am I happy - you bet!
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    • Tag McLaren Audio AV-192r
    The best sounding pre/pro period. Digital 8 channel room equalization is unbelievable.
    • Infinity Kappa 9
    Tremendous Main speakers. These have been completely refurbished from the drivers to the crossover. 4 x 12
    • Threshold SA-2 Class A mono-blocks
    Great center channel amp
    • Infinity Kappa 6
    I use 3 of these, for the rears and center channel. A perfect match for the fronts. Emit tweaters are very tough to match their sound and speed.
    • Threshold S-300 sII
    This amp drives the rear surround channel speakers. It had the power supplies rebuilt before I bought it and had Cardas binding posts installed. Slight overkill for the rears but.....
    • Apple iTunes with Airport Express
    While this setup is not without some quirkiness at times, when it works (which is most of the time) the sound quality is definitely superior to using a CD transport. I use the processing horsepower of the Tag to decode the optical connection from the Airport Express. An Ipod Touch for a remote is the final piece that makes this setup way cool as far as my daughter thinks! WiFi 1TB harddrive handles the storage of 400+ CD's at full resolution.
    • Pioneer Elite DV 79
    Wow great sound and vision
    • PS Audio xTreme Transcendent
    All interconnects. Solid silver, lossless sound, just magic.
    • PS Audio Extreme Prelude
    Power cords make such a huge difference.
    • Dell Projector
    Big picture for big sound!

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Nice system and lots of Threshold gear.
Saw you answering a thread were a guy had a pair of SA/12's but did not now what the bias should be.
You also mentioned that taking of the cover will alter the biasreading.
I have a pair of SA/1 (actually S/1000 Series II modified to massive parallel configuration making it a SA/1) and experience the same problem. I know what the bias should be but every time I try to set it at 125 mV with a open top and back (otherwise I can't reach the very unergonomically one turn 5K Bourns biastrimmer, I will substitude this trimmer with a Spectrol multiturn) it goes down to approx. 35 mV (over one of the 1.3 Ohm emitterresistor) with the amp closed and warmed up for a couple of hours.
Any suggestions? Maybe the Spectrol multiturn pot will help but I think the high gain FETS on the audioboard are the problem.

Thanks in advance

brian_eno

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