Rab's toyroom has been quietly moving through devices...the current system comprises for stereo the Legend Big Reds set up by Dr Crawford with a Chord Blue Transport, DEQX room processing, and two Chord power amplifiers in biamplification mode hooked up with appropriate Nordost Flatline speaker cables and interconnects. Suffice to say that the speakers are revealing beyond the merely exceptional...May I offer you an experience that can bring a grown audiophile to their knees?...
For surround sound we are using the outstanding Denon AVR4306 set up in biamplified mode running into a Monitor Audio Gold Series speakers system. There is a pair of GS60's at the front with the GS-FX as rears and GS-LCR centre. The performance of the GS60's running four channels from the frightfully clever Denon is, as they used to say about Rolls Royce's, "adequate"...
Alas the stock of the GS60's is hard time and I will have to revert to the outstanding (for the money) GS20's till late November...the GS60s were fantastic though...one of the most linear speakers available at all volume levels.
But now they are back in black, GS 60's in the gloss black look amazing..
The GS-FX rears by the way are a completely new Monitor Audio design that offer a dual mode configuration that can be switched automatically by the 12volt trigger of the amp as it chnages modes.They wil change from Monopole to produce a discrete rear or side channel or will change to dipole to provide wonderfully diffuse yet tonally precise surround effects. Youve got to see them because they are funky as...initial reports ( thanks Arkan) of wiring this to an AVR4306 are very promising
The screen remains for the time being the Sharp pro monitor LCM3700 that is still a reference LCD 18 months later. This is the 2001 (movie not date of manufacture fool) kubrick black slab that sits above the fireplace and fossils and is a fantastically well measured panel that runs our Media Centre devices and DV3910 just perfectly. We await the new models with interest and sublimated lust, the room is no stranger to 1080 downloads and the screen just needs to be a little bigger I think...the 52 inch would be...

ACTUALLY THE DEVICE I REALLY WANT NEED TO HAVE IN THERE IS VERY SIMPLE. IT IS THE PN655 SHARP... They really have to give me one of these...

US website link
http://www.sharpusa.com/products/ModelLanding/0,1058,1710,00.html

This is the pro version of the 65 inch, its a full 24/7 device with a metal backing in the plainest of plain black and a fanless package...oh yeah...
$30,000 US ...


Media centre is almost fantastic, Microsoft themselves auto downloaded an update that crashed the device until it was restored to a previous time setting. There is no other way to so effectively effortlessly watch Tv and videos but...we just wish it would work a little bit better...all the time...