Hi,
In my early twenties I used to work selling Hi-fi. The shops I worked in used to sell the likes of NAD, Denon, Marantz, Mission throught to Arcam, Kef, Ruark, Infinity and on up to Quad, AVI, Linn, Meridian, Mark Levinson and ATC. You get the drift.
1992. Home theatre was stereo plus the biggest CRT Tv you could lay hands on. Yamaha had just released their first AV amp (Stereo with matrixed, limited bandwidth, mono rear channels. I thought it was crap.) and Laser Disk was something to drool over. We actually had a dedicated home theatre demo room in the basement. If the idiot who owned the shop had even the slightest touch of vision he'd still be in business.
Anyhoo, a few years playing with gear 8 hours a day, killed off pretty much any interest I had and anyway, I'd flogged enough of my mates setups I and could still get a fix.
Fast forward 10 years and a windfall allowed me to get interested again. I dropped £5k on a Toshiba 36" 36ZD26P, Denon DVD2800, 3802 and some Kef KHT-2005 'Eggs'. A Sony VPL-HS10 appeared a year later and from then it's rolled on and on and probably isn't going to stop. Just don't tell SWMBO.
I've joined this forum for the fantastic knowledge base on the BFD which is in my possession, but I am not allowed to use until my birthday on the 2nd June. I will figuer out how to work it very quickly, cos I'm like that. But working out how to USE it will, I suspect, require a lot more patience and that means yours as well as mine
. I know the Monolith is capable of results well beyond it's price. It already stuffs my old MJ Acoustics Ref 200. Over here they cost about £30 more than an SVS-PB10ISD which is the nearest direct comparison, but are more flexible with real wood finishes. Performance wise, there's nothing in it.
I look forward to meeting you all, receiving advice and giving any that I can.
Regards
Russell