I was lookng at those too months back. Since it started not so far away from me(in location) as a DIY kit and someone local was selling one last I recall. I just dont have the time, patience and brains to build those big monsters.
Brought home the VP150 and QS4 tonight.
Watch T3 and it did pretty well. Better blend than my old PMC center. What did the trick was the MCACC Auto Eq calibration. I tried it by ear but failed miserably. Althought the VP150 did a better job than the PMC TB2 center it still was not 100% matched but liveable. The QS4 was not matching to the VP150 as well either. I bet the QS8 would have done a better job. One thing though is that if this system did not have an auto or even manual EQ calibration ... the speakers definitely as it stands would not match my Maggies. My old Rotel did not have this feature. So yes the MCACC feature is definitely awesome. Kudos to the Pioneer Elites to having this feature.
So next week I will place an order for QS8 and VP150 to match up with the Magnepan MG12. I just have too figure out what color of the rainbows I wanna paint it with.
Saturn
ps: by ear I could not tell the tonal difference once playing pink noise on each speaker. Where you can actually hear if all speakers have the same tonal characteristic is through circular PANNNING pink noise in the high and low bands. When doing that the center channel seem constrained, less ambiance, also has a little lower tonal charateristic. It is not as obvious as other speakers I have tried. Phantom center is tonally correct but lacks the ummppphhh of the center channel dialog using the VP150.
Last edited by Saturn; 11/15/03 06:31 AM.
