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SRT10

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  1. I had that in mind, however the media server at any given time is streaming to other parts of the house and I do want quality gaming and would rather just leave the server if I can (with it's current equipment that is). The more I read my own post I'm leaning towards just building a small gaming rig.
  2. Too bad it's only in the US. Price was double when I went to checkout for Canada delivery
  3. Good evening, I am not a gamer by any stretch, my gaming recently was original Xbox every once in a blue moon that would get turned on (however my experiences go back to the Atari 2600 ). I am however a large Home Theater fella and PC building enthusiast integrating everything I have together. Last week (while first power up after moving into our new house) my original Xbox died completely and my 2 little boys who are 4/6 years old had only recently found the gaming experience interesting. Playing Hockey and Snowboarding. I almost pulled the trigger this weekend on an impulse buy to just replace it with the Xbox One w/kinect as a Christmas present to them (I swear for them ) The current area where this will sit (or whatever solution we put together) encompasses my main HT room within the existing cabinet, which houses a large media server MS W10 old q6600, Asus P5K Deluxe 8GB ram with an AMD HD7870 40+TB no SSD's. My main concern/quandry is 4 fold. 1. I could try and run games on the existing media server, quality and performance I'm sure would suffer with the existing hardware's horsepower. (Screen is a Sammy PN64F8500 Plasma so I'm good there). I would still need the PC gaming peripherals/controllers which I have no clue about at this point. 2. I don't want them to use keyboards, yet that is until their older for gaming in their own rooms, I would love them using actual gaming controllers and heck the kinect or the PS4 Camera type idea for dancing games if that is possible amongst other games would be pretty cool. The environment I want for them is that we can all mess around together playing games on rainy days. 3. I could just purchase an Xbox One/PS4 with peripherals within my budget, connect it to my equipment and be done with it. 4. Either build a budget gaming rig with all peripherals (controllers and other related gaming device requirements included) in a separate case as I have room for it in the cabinet or upgrade the existing media server to support both functions, gaming & serving content around the house. Either way in this respect I have no clue whatsoever what components are out there now. $800 is my budget for this (equivalent Xbox One w/kinect with additional wireless plus a few games I can see would be this much) but do not tell wifey I'm fairly certain firing me would be in order. Thank you for any guidance and input provided. SRT10
  4. You rarely get extensions in the real world. suck it up and get to work
  5. Polk/Klipsch/Infinity have some great price points over here in Canada at least for something of this nature. I agree with Stagea although run for DIY's the kits have gone up significantly in price over the last year or 2 and will compare to a fully assembled brand name unit in most cases. For a 5.1 system you will however run into £300 pretty quick. Starting with a 2.1 - SVSound.com, Prime Bookshelf or Satellites pair + any of their subwoofers would blow the pants off anything twice the price, even if it was a full surround kit package.
  6. I wonder if my wife would be upset if I sold one of my little boys for that Sony Projector, or if she wold be ok with it if I could get 2 of them...hmm...yes I'm going to hell
  7. We'll see in a couple weeks how this monitor pans out, I just pulled the trigger on this purchase as well. Really looking forward to it after selling my previous dual U3007's years ago and now getting back into the larger monitor realm again.
  8. swap out that pce-56 for their higher end model PCE-AC68
  9. As much as I know Linus that you hate "wireless" connectivity. I think it could be beneficial to review some wireless PCIE cards. I've run into a conundrum in my new house where I have no easy ability to fish ethernet cables without doing a lot of repair work (I'm in construction and have no issues but it would be quite a bit of work), having the basement finished doesn't help. I have however acquired an Asus PCE-AC68 card at least for my main machine upstairs with excellent success. I've done some very minor testing on transfer machines to my media server which is hard wired to the R8000 downstairs with excellent results. I don't consider myself a heavy user by your standards but do stream everything to everywhere in the house now, maybe it sounds more of a router slash PCIE wireless card package for testing/reviewing. Anyhow I'd be curious what's out there on that front outside of what I purchased (yes panic'd and quick research led me to that device and it's worked out great but I always am looking for "what else is out there") And maybe to add to the above request from Dovaogedys2112, maybe include cabinet cooling options like Cabcool & AC Infinity gear as a suggestion as I've had to move my Media server back into a cabinet and will have to add cabinet cooling without question. Thank you, SRT10
  10. Marantz SR5008 and all models above it
  11. Are you interested to sell those 2 Tower pairs ? You could do fairly decent selling those if they're in good condition. Then take those funds and replace them with something like the SVSound.com's Prime series bookshelves or satellites ? That BIC sub of yours however moving into the new space supporting smaller drivers will have to work extra hard as you'll need to increase the crossover frequencybetween the speakers and sub moving with smaller f/c/l/surrounds and will probably get a little sloppy. Maybe replace that with a smaller ported 10" or sealed 10" with options for dsp configuring on the sub as well. Unfortunately no good news from me as you just won't get the visceral impact you currently probably have now with moving into a smaller room replacing the larger towers. You can however attain quite a bit more accurate tones and somewhat serious low end impact in a smaller room with timber matched units and a kickass proper blending with rolloff points from the speakers to the sub. What size room is this ?
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