On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 5:26:59 AM UTC-4, thekma...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > james wrote: "probably had an 8-track player somewhere back in the past, why   
   aren't you still using that?  Point is your main receiver broke.  It was   
   pretty old.  That was the point where you might have looked around at the   
   state of things.  Then you    
   could have gotten something that handles the new surround sound formats, is   
   compatible with other more modern devices, has hdmi, etc.  Instead you went   
   and found another old receiver.  And even after others pointed out that those   
   jvc's were not all that    
   well engineered you got another jvc.  I'm guessing for a lot of your life   
   that's not the reaction you would have had or we'd be talking about some old   
   two channel system. "   
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   > For your information I blew out the center on my original 515.  Either I   
   drove it too hard or disconnected something before turning down the receiver   
   volume.   
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   > As far as modern surround, formats goes, got plenty of time to catch up on   
   that.   
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   > Pro-Logic suffices for now, and BTW, I do still have a working eight-track   
   deck and at least 72 hours worth of tapes. ;)   
      
   Perhaps you are waiting to see if blu-ray really is here to stay?  Because   
   many blu-ray disks use the newer high definition surround formats that are not   
   compatible with what you have.  And there are not often discussed issues with   
   many blu-ray players    
   downmixing to the original surround formats.  Forcing you to use pcm.   
      
   "I do still have a working eight-track deck" that really says it all.  At the   
   time of their introduction there really wasn't any other good way to take   
   music to your car.  But as far as audio quality goes the only thing worse was   
   a wire recorder.  They    
   died a well deserved death almost immediately upon the introduction of   
   cassettes.   
      
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