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That is H1N1, to be correct. It is to bad the hog farmers are suffering around the country because pork is 100% fine.

"When PIGS fly!" Well, I guess it gas happened. All I hear over the news lately is "pigs flew!" (I have not seen proof on YouTube yet though...)

Haha, I am currently finishing up a fellowship at one of the National Institutes of Health branches... for some reason they haven't been taking my flu-derived jokes very well lately! That said, if you showed up to work with a slight sniffle a couple weeks ago you had a free pass to a day off.

Maybe I should throw a flu joke out there...

EDIT: just realized I have a question. Since the VP150 is 6 ohm, and the m60's are 8 ohm, I should still set my receiver (Onkyo 606) to 6 ohm, correct? Or is there a way to specify ohm settings to individual channels?

Set your receiver to 8 ohms! (or whatever the higher setting is)

Doh, thanks!

This Wine Flu is when you call in sick after driking too much?

Pigs have been flying for years, just ask Roger Waters.

Ugh, such bitter sweetness. On the positive side, the speakers sounds absolutely wonderful. The improvement from my previous speakers isn't even really comparable.

And now for the bad. @*&^! my Onkyo 606. Since I have been using only a pair of 3-way speakers all my signals have been sent in stereo over optical or component. Well, when I hooked my PS3 up to take advantage of the new 5.0 setup... BUUUUUUUUZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Furious. Only happens with signal sent over HDMI (not anaolog or optical), which is why I was still able to test the speakers out.

I purchased it from http://www.accessories4less.com about two weeks ago, so it is still within their 30 day return period. I can only hope they do not screw me on this. I just sent in the online form a minute ago.

In anycase, I suppose I will upgrade to an Onkyo TX-SR806. Having searched the forums, it appears there haven't been any PS3+buzz problems. And it has 130watts plus pre-outs for all channels.

Anyone hear have any experience with the 806?

- Sam

talk about a downer!

Some pretty steep discounts on that site, Sam. You might want to ask your question about the 806 as a new topic to make sure people see it.

Very good, Sam; enjoy. On the impedance setting question, there's no need for a "Doh", since manuals commonly advise to lower the setting and many mistakenly think that this somehow optimizes the receiver for driving lower impedance speakers. In fact it's simply a safety-type of precaution which is required to satisfy the UL(Underwriters Laboratories)concerns about possible overheating. It does this by limiting the voltage which the power supply section can output, and because of Ohm's Law, when the voltage is limited so is the maximum current and power. Although the chance of overheating is reduced, so is the maximum power capacity(tests show that it's roughly cut in half), and the lower setting should never be used, despite the language in the manual.

If I followed the Buzzzz issue, you had never used the HDMI connection before, so it's possible that the problem is with the HDMI output on the player, rather than the HDMI input on the receiver. If you can borrow another player with an HDMI output to check this, it'd be helpful.