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If memory serves, thats a fair way up. I've never visited Northern BC. I made it out to Long Beach on the island and spent a few days in Whislter before it was a large tourist town. BC is a beautiful province.

yes i'm on a small island just off the mainland.....just a ways down from the bottom of the alaskian panhandle.

Very nice! Visiting the Queen Charolets of someplace similar is very high on my list of things to do before I die.

i'm pretty much straight across from QCI. the ferry there runs from here and is about 6hrs.

Now I'm jealous!

Even downloaded MP3's sound pretty good on M80s, as long as they are 128k and up. If you want to play it safe get the M60s, they are a little more forgiving and at lower volume, with MP3s, you won't be missing the extra detail the M80s offer, as the detail is already missing.

nuc, if you are ever in Calgary I would be glad to give you an audition of the M80s- PB13 setup.

Any thoughts on the processing that eg. Yamaha AVR's offer for compressed (lossy) audio?

As someone who has A/B tested the PB13 against the EP600, I'm not sure you would actually notice this difference with music (though admittedly I have not compared to the 500). Before I calibrated the two subs, I believed that the PB13 hit harder for music as well, but once calibrated, I could not notice a significant difference in music between the two on any kind of music. The exception was when running the PB13 in sealed mode.

When running sealed, it definitely had a different sound and did "punch" more than when running ported. However, I felt it gave up too much in SPL for home theater in this mode. Since I listen to lot more HT than music, that wasn't a great trade off for me. If you do more music than HT, the sealed PB13 may give you the sound you're looking for.

Jason

The Denons have a "restorer" mode for lossy audio. It helps, but it's still lacking IMHO.

And yet to me, I perceived the PB13 to hit harder in all modes. I suspect it is due to the more encompassing/textured sound the EP subs have.