Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Halos in place, Axioms sounding great !!!

Actually the gas fireplace was just installed in Nov, to replace the small one that was installed by the builder. This is the Lennox LSS-40, has a 41k BTU capacity and is 73% efficent, had a chance to get it at dealer cost, and I did the removal of the old one, and installed this one. Did not finish the drywall as I knew I would be removeing it for running new speaker wire. But ya, need to get back to that and several other house projects...........some day........right after I tire of the HT system.

Thanks for the offer Shawn, but this system is not getting out of my sight, but still in need of a house/cat sitter for the Disney trip in June.

Tempting...

Hey Dennis,

Please excuse me while I climb up on my soapbox for a moment;

"Have only done a quick 2 hour test, listening area at 102 -107 db"

Careful Man, LOUD is FUN! And I am as guilty as probably everyone on these pages. BUT...
This is from OSHA; "According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (1998), the maximum exposure time at 85 dBA is 8 hours. At 110 dBA, the maximum exposure time is one minute and 29 seconds."

You DO want to keep hearing the music, Right?
(Not to mention conversations in crowded restaurants!)
Take it from a guy wgho spent about 10 years in the 10th row of Dead shows. Hearing loss SUCKS!

OK, I'm down off the soapbox.

I'll bet those things sound Incredible!!!

BTW, I didn't see a post regarding wether you got everything hooked up in time for your listening demo party last weekend.
Did You?
How are you liking that 2900? Now that I've worked the (operator induced) bugs out of mine I am loving it.
Tom

Well the high volume listening is not like I'm in that area for long periods, testing has been done at the high levels to see if I can brake the Halos well I'm on a test/exchange/return agreement, I'm not going to be 'stuck' with them if they do not do what I expect. So kinda putting them to the extreme ends of what I may run them at for BBQ parties out doors and such.

Think I mentioned about the party in one of the other threads, if not, yes, everything was up and working. Only one comment that I wrote off as typical lack of audio knowledge or in believing tech hype. This person upon seeing the system, went right to the Halo C2 processor, and after some time of looking at it, I walks over to see if he had a concern. He was looking to see if it had the THX rating, and then asked me if my entire audio system had been THX certified, I gave him a confused look to be nice and asked why that question. He stated that a friend had just spent $ 10k to have his system tweaked and THX certified by licensed techs.

I informed him that sadly I had not, but I was considering ordering some hi tech speaker cables for my front M80s from a cable company in the LA area, and an 8' pair was a bargain at around $ 10k.

The 2900 is great, and if you consider the cost, its a real bargain. Unlike you, I still have a lot of set up to do on the 2900, and the entire system, once the cables are secured and the cabinet finished and rolled back into place, I will be tweaking stuff for weeks I'm sure, still have the MX-700 to get dialed in and replace the Harmony that one of my roomies had picked up.

Once again, thanks to all that keep pushing me towards the 2900 and save several hundred.

He spent...

10K

to get his system set up???

Man. Just think of if he had spent that extra money on, well, anything else.

Yup, my thoughts as well, I happen to agree with an expert I know and I feel that THX is way over rated and could care less if the 'THX' logo is on any piece of my eqipment.

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Well the high volume listening is not like I'm in that area for long periods, testing has been done at the high levels to see if I can brake the Halos well I'm on a test/exchange/return agreement, I'm not going to be 'stuck' with them if they do not do what I expect. So kinda putting them to the extreme ends of what I may run them at for BBQ parties out doors and such.

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Run them on a dead short. Now THAT'S a test of how bulletproof they are!

I second Seabear's recommedation about watching how much you expose yourself to high SPLs - I do work for Workplace Safety and Health and we fight to get protection for guys working in quieter environments than that. It's a hobby - and tinitus sucks.

Bren R.

Can you say anything on the balanced cables, vice the rca cables, I would be interested to hear if there was a difference, do did you change to much stuff at one time to be able to tell?

just like to say dam thats sweet lookin. very nice! hope you like them and if you don't i'll take them (lol). you should try out hero with jet li if you can stand subtitles very good sound test for dvds.