The best possible thing you can ever do for your hard earned money when purchasing audio equiptment is to get yourself out of your house and into a store that will let you audition every piece of equiptment in your price range in any configuration.
Have your sales person hook up their most sonically neutral sounding receiver to the speakers you want to hear. You will then be able to determine how the speakers perform. If you leave the volume at the same level for all speakers, you will hear which spekers are more efficient (they will be louder), which ones are brighter (they will have more treble), which ones are warmer (they will have more midrange and bass), and which ones are more neutral (no augmentation of either high, mid or low). Now you can make a speaker decision based on *your* preferences. And since you are the one spending the money, you being happy with your purchase is all that matters!
Now, as for my tastes, I prefer very neutral sounding speakers and receivers. My latest home theater purchase included all Paradigm speakers. Monitor 7's in the front, Mini-Monitor's in the rear, the CC-350 center channel and the PW-2200 subwoofer. Paradigm is a well respeced brand in the home theater arena for their incredible price/performance.
My receiver choice was the Integra DTR-7.1. Integra is Onkyo's mid-end line of equiptment. This receiver was chosen for its very neutral sounding output, its ability to decode DTS, DTS ES (new 6.1 encoding format)Dolby Digital, and Dolby Digital EX (new 6.1 encoding format).
If you are interested in reading other consumers revies on equiptment, check out Audio Review. You will find many reviews on nearly every piece of equiptment you are looking at.
Okay.. hopefully we have some programmers here who can deal with this many nested if statements, but here goes..
If Redhat buys Corel and If Redhat releases a 18+ distribution and If it is the first blue moon of February which lands on a Tuesday (okay forget the last if):)
Then don't you agree that any Microsoft Windows product should be for ages infinity+. Since infinity is a theoretical mathematical statement and does not exist as a real number, we can infer that Windows is suited for no one. Quite right. Seriously, how frustrating is it to try and get work done when all you get is an invalid page fault here and a blue screen there? Hardly an environment for children, let alone anyone else in the free world.
No, you are not way off here. That could be a security risk. Although, if this 'secure' distro has all net ports closed at install, then this would not be a problem, as there would be no feasible way to remotely gain access to such a system.
In this case, the security risk does not come from the 'net', it comes from a user working at the computer. For example.. maybe this new linux user just learns the rm command and wants to test it. Well, 'rm/etc/passwd' could be dangerous then, because any user at the computer would have root permissions.
Maybe a better idea would be to let a user set the root password and also have him/her make an unprivilaged user. This unprivilaged user would then be autologed into X with their desktop environment of choice. From here, a user could 'su' as root and make any important system changes needed.
No OS has ever been totally 'safe' from a new users musings. Good things happen and bad things happen. Such is life and human behavior. This does not mean that we cannot make it a little more diffucult for bad things to happen though!
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The best possible thing you can ever do for your hard earned money when purchasing audio equiptment is to get yourself out of your house and into a store that will let you audition every piece of equiptment in your price range in any configuration.
Have your sales person hook up their most sonically neutral sounding receiver to the speakers you want to hear. You will then be able to determine how the speakers perform. If you leave the volume at the same level for all speakers, you will hear which spekers are more efficient (they will be louder), which ones are brighter (they will have more treble), which ones are warmer (they will have more midrange and bass), and which ones are more neutral (no augmentation of either high, mid or low). Now you can make a speaker decision based on *your* preferences. And since you are the one spending the money, you being happy with your purchase is all that matters!
Now, as for my tastes, I prefer very neutral sounding speakers and receivers. My latest home theater purchase included all Paradigm speakers. Monitor 7's in the front, Mini-Monitor's in the rear, the CC-350 center channel and the PW-2200 subwoofer. Paradigm is a well respeced brand in the home theater arena for their incredible price/performance.
My receiver choice was the Integra DTR-7.1. Integra is Onkyo's mid-end line of equiptment. This receiver was chosen for its very neutral sounding output, its ability to decode DTS, DTS ES (new 6.1 encoding format)Dolby Digital, and Dolby Digital EX (new 6.1 encoding format).
If you are interested in reading other consumers revies on equiptment, check out Audio Review. You will find many reviews on nearly every piece of equiptment you are looking at.
Happy Home Theater Hunting!
Sincerely,
Robert J. Casey Jr.
Okay.. hopefully we have some programmers here who can deal with this many nested if statements, but here goes..
:)
If Redhat buys Corel
and If Redhat releases a 18+ distribution
and If it is the first blue moon of February
which lands on a Tuesday (okay forget the
last if)
Then don't you agree that any Microsoft Windows product should be for ages infinity+. Since infinity is a theoretical mathematical statement and does not exist as a real number, we can infer that Windows is suited for no one. Quite right. Seriously, how frustrating is it to try and get work done when all you get is an invalid page fault here and a blue screen there? Hardly an environment for children, let alone anyone else in the free world.
Robert J. Casey Jr.
No, you are not way off here. That could be a security risk. Although, if this 'secure' distro has all net ports closed at install, then this would not be a problem, as there would be no feasible way to remotely gain access to such a system.
/etc/passwd' could be dangerous then, because any user at the computer would have root permissions.
In this case, the security risk does not come from the 'net', it comes from a user working at the computer. For example.. maybe this new linux user just learns the rm command and wants to test it. Well, 'rm
Maybe a better idea would be to let a user set the root password and also have him/her make an unprivilaged user. This unprivilaged user would then be autologed into X with their desktop environment of choice. From here, a user could 'su' as root and make any important system changes needed.
No OS has ever been totally 'safe' from a new users musings. Good things happen and bad things happen. Such is life and human behavior. This does not mean that we cannot make it a little more diffucult for bad things to happen though!