Wanna take it to the next level? Buy MORE speakers!

Even some people that should know better, are often taken in by great looking enclosures and marketing. Just look at all the great press those crappy new SVS speakers are getting.

I heard them at the Home Entertainment Show and they really sound "dead" and I couldn’t live with them. The crew there agreed that that treble wasn’t their strong point, and based on their heritage, they are more bass oriented.

Even the Stereophile Magazine test shows them to be dead though, IIRC, the review doesn’t reflect this.

I don’t care how many you stuff into a room, you won’t cure that problem without eq and I would rather have a single pair of speakers that I enjoy listening too. BTW, I don’t think I have ever heard speakers that can image as mine do in my room.

I have a quality HT set-up and prefer to listen to music in "Pure Direct" stereo with no eq or room correction that can spoil the stereo image.  And, I have an Oppo 95 and even on mult-channel SACDs and DVD-Audio disks, I almost always select the stereo track.

I have had artists over, played their own tracks for them on both stereo and my multichannel rig.

You and the guys from Def Leppard must have had a blast.  

The stupid premise of the original post should be enough to suck it into that black hole of darkness.....

Play this reference audiophile track on your stereo and feel the expansiveness of soundstage, speakers disappearing, etc. I get the feeling that she may have written this song just for you (to be in your feelings n all, as you usually are). How special...

Nicki Minaj - Reference Track

@deep_333  To me the phrase "awful multichannel setup" is redundant. Yes, I suppose a music surround system can be initially impressive, especially to the novice listener, but does anyone really want to be subjected to musical inaccuracy in the long term?

@aewarren I suppose all those guys who work at Sony, Yamaha, Sound United, Rotel, Dolby, Trinnov, Storm, etc must be novice listeners then...Who knows? You should perhaps teach them a thing or two about musical accuracy and how to not be a novice listener.

I’m still stuck on how a post with a couple of screen shots from a surround sound AVR set up screen got so much traction???

Worse still is trying to school @mikelavigne on concert hall acoustics. It IS all about the source. For me, it is mind blowing listening to some great Jazz and Blues on good vinyl pressings realizing you are listening to a 100+ year old medium recorded with 60 year old electronics that can’t be beat by today’s digital tech.