First off, NEVER EVER buy Bose. Bose is laughable at best and WAY overpriced. It's like paying $50,000 for a Honda Civic. They're not bad speakers compared to KLH or Yamaha, but there are MUCH better deals out there.
Okay, for the money you are talking, I would personally buy a set of Energy Encore or Take5 speakers and a Denon 2801, 3300, or 3801.
You should be able to stay under $2000 even for the 3801, which will allow you to buy additional speakers later on which will decode 6.1 DTS-ES Discrete DVDs. (Pop in Gladiator... sweeeeet).
The new PSB Image line of speakers is also quite formidable. Undeniably musical, though a tad bright until burnt-in properly. For a REAL deal, look around clearance sales for the Energy Connoisseur series... the C6s in particular are phenomenal for music AND cinema.
I personally have found that Home Theatre becomes a drug... from my (somewhat) modest $3000 beginning, I have accrued over $17000 in home audio gear (though I got most of it on sale), so be warned. Spend as much as you can early on. The great part about good speakers is that they will continue to be good speakers for years and years. The same cannot be said for any other component of a A/V system.
At any rate, IMHO you can't go wrong with Denon, Onkyo, Marantz, Energy, NHT, PSB, or Mirage.
Go and audition equipment. Find what YOU like. Don't get caught up in marketing (Bose). Things to keep an eye out for in speakers: make sure the cones are NOT paper and that the surrounds (the pliable stuff that holds the speaker cone in place) are rubber. Paper speakers sound like crap and blow out too easily.
One last thing: invest in some decent cables for the speakers, don't use that lamp-wire crud that most people use... it destroys accuracy and makes for a less than satisfactory listening experience.
That's my two cents.
Perhaps THIS is the reason there's a shortage of Playstation2s... they're using all their chips in a fucking robotic dog...
But the question is: is it backwards-compatible with our current pets?
You are so naive...
I am fully aware that there have been (and still are) a good deal of PPC variations out there, including my personal RS/6000 250s. Don't start a flame war (or a contest of intelligence) with me because you'll end up looking like a moron. Apple's execs didn't throw their product into a niche market any more than Microsoft did. Apple may exclusively produce thier own hardware since they disallowed clones from companies like PowerCurve and (my very own) Umax. Software on the other hand... Have you ever heard of Linux? or NetBsd? and you yourself said M$ NT runs on PPC chips... Besides, I never said that Apple owns any part of the PPC chipset, I was using the parallel of PC CISC clones vs. PowerPC RISC processors, so perhaps you should learn to pay attention and not be so anxious to insult your elders, kid.
Get a real job and stop trying to sound educated.
I have to say that I admire the M$ attempt in this leap into the next generation of entertainment. They are finally seeing what many of us saw long ago... that interactive entertainment will become the de facto for entertainment experience, and movies will be relegated to a niche roll. Don't think it's coincidental that movies will bring in (a good deal) less revenue this year than video games (a first), and that M$ has decided to release a gaming console. What many hardware vendors are failing to realize is that it's not the hardware, it's the games that matter. What offers the best experience... look at gameboy!!! PS2 will capsize due to the fact that games are hard to develop for it (remember Saturn, same thing), Indrema will die quickly because of its less-than-stellar market penetration, and Dreamcast will shortly be outdated because of a lack of Soul Calibur 2 and decent games in general. That leaves X-box and Nintendo (PPC) Cube (M$ vs. Apple anyone?) to fight over who has the best games... And if we remember, M$ and PCs in general succeeded over Macs NOT out of superior hardware, but because PCs had better games... (well, that's not the ONLY reason, but it's a bigger one than most people think.)
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First off, NEVER EVER buy Bose. Bose is laughable at best and WAY overpriced. It's like paying $50,000 for a Honda Civic. They're not bad speakers compared to KLH or Yamaha, but there are MUCH better deals out there. Okay, for the money you are talking, I would personally buy a set of Energy Encore or Take5 speakers and a Denon 2801, 3300, or 3801. You should be able to stay under $2000 even for the 3801, which will allow you to buy additional speakers later on which will decode 6.1 DTS-ES Discrete DVDs. (Pop in Gladiator... sweeeeet). The new PSB Image line of speakers is also quite formidable. Undeniably musical, though a tad bright until burnt-in properly. For a REAL deal, look around clearance sales for the Energy Connoisseur series... the C6s in particular are phenomenal for music AND cinema. I personally have found that Home Theatre becomes a drug... from my (somewhat) modest $3000 beginning, I have accrued over $17000 in home audio gear (though I got most of it on sale), so be warned. Spend as much as you can early on. The great part about good speakers is that they will continue to be good speakers for years and years. The same cannot be said for any other component of a A/V system. At any rate, IMHO you can't go wrong with Denon, Onkyo, Marantz, Energy, NHT, PSB, or Mirage. Go and audition equipment. Find what YOU like. Don't get caught up in marketing (Bose). Things to keep an eye out for in speakers: make sure the cones are NOT paper and that the surrounds (the pliable stuff that holds the speaker cone in place) are rubber. Paper speakers sound like crap and blow out too easily. One last thing: invest in some decent cables for the speakers, don't use that lamp-wire crud that most people use... it destroys accuracy and makes for a less than satisfactory listening experience. That's my two cents.
No, they're releasing 500,000 playstation 2's, half the number originally planned due to "component shortage".
Perhaps THIS is the reason there's a shortage of Playstation2s... they're using all their chips in a fucking robotic dog... But the question is: is it backwards-compatible with our current pets?
You are so naive... I am fully aware that there have been (and still are) a good deal of PPC variations out there, including my personal RS/6000 250s. Don't start a flame war (or a contest of intelligence) with me because you'll end up looking like a moron. Apple's execs didn't throw their product into a niche market any more than Microsoft did. Apple may exclusively produce thier own hardware since they disallowed clones from companies like PowerCurve and (my very own) Umax. Software on the other hand... Have you ever heard of Linux? or NetBsd? and you yourself said M$ NT runs on PPC chips... Besides, I never said that Apple owns any part of the PPC chipset, I was using the parallel of PC CISC clones vs. PowerPC RISC processors, so perhaps you should learn to pay attention and not be so anxious to insult your elders, kid. Get a real job and stop trying to sound educated.
I have to say that I admire the M$ attempt in this leap into the next generation of entertainment. They are finally seeing what many of us saw long ago... that interactive entertainment will become the de facto for entertainment experience, and movies will be relegated to a niche roll. Don't think it's coincidental that movies will bring in (a good deal) less revenue this year than video games (a first), and that M$ has decided to release a gaming console. What many hardware vendors are failing to realize is that it's not the hardware, it's the games that matter. What offers the best experience... look at gameboy!!! PS2 will capsize due to the fact that games are hard to develop for it (remember Saturn, same thing), Indrema will die quickly because of its less-than-stellar market penetration, and Dreamcast will shortly be outdated because of a lack of Soul Calibur 2 and decent games in general. That leaves X-box and Nintendo (PPC) Cube (M$ vs. Apple anyone?) to fight over who has the best games... And if we remember, M$ and PCs in general succeeded over Macs NOT out of superior hardware, but because PCs had better games... (well, that's not the ONLY reason, but it's a bigger one than most people think.)