Quote Originally Posted by shokhead
MD is still MD on a clock radio or level 6 AudioNote system? Your hearing 1/10th what you should be hearing on a clock radio,come on. Thats like saying a picture of crap is the same as standing in it. One is as far away as you can get and the other is up close and detailed. Sound makes the movie better and gets you ready for the story and helps tell the story. I've enjoyed all my movies on my 8 year old 27" and hope they are better on my new 30" . I was brought up on four track so you dont know how cool it will be to hear DVD-A and SACD. I can hardly wait. For money growing on trees,i would rather wait and save to buy better then to buy now and not as good.
Well actually thinking it over I agree with you. I was one of hte people who bought and owned a Laserdisc at the age of 17 rather than buying a car because I wanted to see movies the way they were meant to be seen in widescreen. I didn;t really care about the picture quality and truthfully i suppose I still don't - I prefer the theater screen resoultion to what I saw on a $10,000 plasma or LCD at Future shop - there is a brightness issue for one design and a slowness of edges on the other - I can;t ay exactly what they're doing but they distract me - theater screens do not. Neither do picture tubes now out of style I gather - oh well.

And I do admit it is fun to impress everyone with that big THX comes up and the room rumbles - I even saw some cheap used Wharfedales(Diamonds $90.00Cdn) at a pawn shop that I could use as rears for my fronts They are form the same period as mine because of the type of wood grain.

That's the toy system for me but it's low priority because I don't watch a lot of movies anymore - judging by what gets nominated and what WON last year i'm not inspired by the quality of the film industry.

A good two channel system can capture the sound of a film and dialogue well - and with Saving Private Ryan will have gun fire coming from behind above and beside you - I have that disc and on a two channel Sugden that was quite impressive - worked on Mel Gibson's "The Patriot" as well(My pick for worst film of the year - but great sound).

The other option and I've considered it is the a H/T system around the Paradigm Atoms - that set may actually be cheaper than one set of AX Two's. My dealer has all Paradigms on at 20% off and might give me em even cheaper - since I will soon be buying the OTO Phono SE