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stephen h.

stephen h.

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Most Favorable Review

Well worth $300 then some

Polk Audio Monitor70 Series II Floorstanding Loudspeaker (Cherry) Single
Polk Audio Monitor70 Series II Floorstanding Loudspeaker (Cherry) Single

Pros: Smooth tweeter and great mids. Lows lack alittle but set your receiver up right makes all the difference. I listened to these next to my mirage speakers OS3 and wow in stereo I forgot what I was missing. I went to local best buy and compare the tsi vs klipsch klipsch was so harsh on my ears. The omnipolar on mirage is awesome on surround sound but unless u want to spend well over $1200 you just cant get the vocal you can out of the polks. I do not regret these at all. The cherry isn't so bad on the eyes but prefer all black housing.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Wish I waited a few days for the black speakers to go on sale. Oh well sound is great and pleasing to the ear. Running on Harman Kardon AVR 2650.

Most Critical Review

Not bad for the money.

Pioneer SC-1222-K 7.2-Channel Network Ready AV Receiver
Pioneer SC-1222-K 7.2-Channel Network Ready AV Receiver

Pros: Sound is not bad. Accepts 4 ohm speakers. Bang for the buck. Has plenty of HDMI sources.

Cons: Pandora doesn't work even after firmware update and Pioneer support. Media Server Music hardly ever works correctly. It will connect but the phone app control flakes out and cannot select a song I want. For the rated power at 4 ohms it honestly does not sound better nor louder then my old HK AVR 650 it replaced. Remote is a joke and and is overly complicated and the layout could have been designed alot better. You cannot type passwords in for Pandora through the remote or app has to be done from Receiver. When the Receiver gives you an error you have to painfully reenter all the info. If I could return this I probably would.

Overall Review: Its an ugly Reciever in person. But you don't buy a receiver for looks.

Died in less then 2 months

SanDisk Mobile Ultra 32GB microSDHC Flash Card Model SDSDQY-032G-A11A
SanDisk Mobile Ultra 32GB microSDHC Flash Card Model SDSDQY-032G-A11A

Pros: NONE

Cons: I have bought sandisk in the past and adta for all my phones. Never had a problem until my wife just lost all the data on the card and not one single phone nor adapter will even see the card.

Thought it would be better.

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card 100259-1GL
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card 100259-1GL

Pros: Low power consumption. Low price. Low Heat. Almost same exact size as the 8800 gt.

Cons: Horrible Drivers. 8.11 and 8.9. Running vista 64 ultimate. Has many problems with dual displays and keeping which is the main display in memory after restarting. Was able to finally get it to stablize after unistalling and reinstalling. After installing latest drivers my computer took longer on reboot(believe it was attributed to the dual display problems). To the performance. I will admit I did not run any 3dmark tests. I believe in REAL world testing. On hl lost coast I was able to obtain 142 fps @1600x1050. Not bad but honestly was able to run all the same settings on high and 4xMSAA on the 8800gt and it ran at 104fps and I could not tell a difference. Some games crysis, bioshock and fallout 3 I noticed strange artifacts, wierd light artifacts and ocassional white lines throughout the screen. Sometimes it would freeze and would have to ctrl alt del out.

Overall Review: I am returning it due to problems it was causing with my wacom 12wx tablet. I have nothing against ati just wish it wasn't true about their drivers not being top notch.

12/28/2008