[A Navy Vet]

"If you blindfolded a standard person and walked them into your system vs. mine, there would be little difference in sound."

Oh please. Who do you think you're b.s.ing here? You may have some of these folks awed by your computer tecknobabble, but I've been into high fidelity all my life. Plugging some old cheap speakers into a bottomline Yamaha processor is not going to yield "little difference"...it would be night and day...providing the AB test is done above 20 decibels which is all your old Advent speakers are probably capable of. Remember, most of us who want a home theater actually want the theater experience and feel the bombs explode, not hear them pop.

Granted, you get to a point in hi-fi where more money adds little to no discernable audible benefit; it's just a matter of quality then. But what you're decribing would be plainly recognizable in a blind test to anyone. For one thing, DefTechs BP2000's have seven drivers each (not including powered sub) and are bi-polar which opens up the soundstage with indirect sound augmenting the direct waves. Your $200 system is incapable of that.

Also, your LCD doesn't match the resolution of film on a screen in a movie house...not even a $25,000 Runco 990 CRT can do that. Display systems are only as good as the source and most DVD transfers don't match the original celluloid source. Ever hear of dot crawl? Tonal mismatch? Contrast discrepancies? et al? Not to mention that film is still considered by most videophiles the best medium for recording and display, although digital is getting close.

[A Navy Vet]

"DefTechs BP2000's have seven drivers each (not including powered sub..."

Oops, my mistake. The seven drivers INCLUDE the built-in powered sub. Two mids and a tweeter face the front, with the same array facing rear for the reflecting sound. The sub points out the side which is a non-issue since sub frequencies are omin-directional.

[bonesmccoy]

"computer tecknobabble"?

"providing the AB test is done above 20 decibels which is all your old Advent speakers are probably capable of"

LOL

You're hilarious.

A laptop PC has more signal processing capability than your hi-fi receiver.

Plus, my laptop PC is portable. What else do you use your receiver for? FM or 8-track?

20dB? What size room are you generating the sound? The energy output from the speakers is related to the acoustics of the room. Giving a simple number like "20dB" is utter nonsense. A room that is 10' x 10' requires lower energy output from certain speakers than a room that is 100' x 100'. The number of people sitting in the room and the types of wall coverings also matter.

When you go to your local theatre, look at the walls. Are they flat white concrete or are they covered with thick, heavy drapes? You and I both know the answer. They have thick heavy drapes because they want to absorb the sound in the walls so it doesn't bounce.

At 20 dB in a room the size of yours (guessing at max 20' x 20'), you have sensorineural hearing loss levels for any kid in the room.

"most of us who want a home theater actually want the theater experience and feel the bombs explode, not hear them pop."

If you can "feel the bombs explode", are you saying that you have spent money on sub-woofers at each speaker?

What for?

Low-frequencies in small rooms bounce so readily that extra money spent on sub-woofers is totally unnecessary. The reality is that low-freq/sub-woofer generated sound is not localized nearly as well as high-pitch frequencies.

It's hilarious to hear you attempt to belittle my comments. For one thing, I've not posted any specifics on the exact brands involved or screen resolution.

The LCD projector units clearly surpass the screen resolution of any plasma. The pixel depth clarifies the standard. Neither NTSC or HDTV match the pixel depth of a standard $1600 LCD InFocus projector. Frankly, your comments are laughable. The DVD in my laptop has enough screen resolution that when I load the DVD "Patton" and project the output with my LCD projector, the grains on the film (and occasional dust/hair in the studio analog film copy) are visible.

Film is not the best media for recording and display. TV is no longer the best media either.

Digital is. You can "hi-fi" your expertise all you want. Digital PC technology is setting the leadership curve. You can either get with the programs (WINDOWS) or you can live in your 8-track world.

George Lucas set the new digital standard with Attack of the Clones. AOTC was filmed on totally digital cameras and the editing was done almost immediately by their production team.

If you want to watch "Navy Seals" on celluloid, be my guest.

As for me, pass me Attack of the Clones.