Hi all,
I had been using a Sony mhc gn100d Mini hifi / htib system for 5 years along with space subwoofer avs 100. I had some money to spare
hyeah: and after discussion with my better half we decided to go for an upgrade. Budget set was around 70K.
After extensive research spent on the net spread around 2 months, thanks to this forum ,and innumerable auditions of avrs- denon, yamaha and marantz, speakers - wharfedale, canton , polk, mission, tannoy etc we finally bit the bullet and bought the following 7.1 setup from music ranch bangalore.
Denon 1910 - 39K
Mission M32i - Fronts - 12.5 K
Mission M30i - surrounds (4 nos )
Mission M3c1i - Center
Cables - 2K
The center and the 4 surrounds came as a cinema package and cost me 16K
My wife acompanied me to all the auditions and participated whole heartedly in the demos !
week 1 : hooked up the system with my 7 yr old pioneer dvd player dv-5310kd and performed manual setup. The movie experience was very good but audio exp was so so..
week 2 : fiddled a lot with the 1910 audio controls, tried 2ch stereo, 5ch stereo, direct mode, pure direct mode etc but was not satisfied with audio exp. So performed audessey setup and tried again but was still not satisfied. Suspected the old pio was the weakest link.
week 3: Then it was back to the forum to buy a new dvd player. research and research , read reviews ..
week 4 : Finally decided that pioneer 610 would be a good bet for my needs but this model was not available anywhere. Waited for 2 to 3 weeks and contacted various dealers in bangalore but to no avail.
After lot of thought decided that I needed to increase my budget to buy a good dvd player that was also very good on audio. In some of the threads I came across dvd players denon 1740 and CA dvd 99. Took audition of dvd 99 and was bowled over the audio and video playback.
Bought this from audio planet koramangala for 12.5K.
Setup the new dvd player and WOW ! what a drastic improvement in the sound and picture quality ! I am completely satisfied with my setup now.
CD playback as well as movie watching is a pleasure now.
A big thanks to this forum and its various members !!
I had been using a Sony mhc gn100d Mini hifi / htib system for 5 years along with space subwoofer avs 100. I had some money to spare
hyeah: and after discussion with my better half we decided to go for an upgrade. Budget set was around 70K. After extensive research spent on the net spread around 2 months, thanks to this forum ,and innumerable auditions of avrs- denon, yamaha and marantz, speakers - wharfedale, canton , polk, mission, tannoy etc we finally bit the bullet and bought the following 7.1 setup from music ranch bangalore.
Denon 1910 - 39K
Mission M32i - Fronts - 12.5 K
Mission M30i - surrounds (4 nos )
Mission M3c1i - Center
Cables - 2K
The center and the 4 surrounds came as a cinema package and cost me 16K
My wife acompanied me to all the auditions and participated whole heartedly in the demos !
week 1 : hooked up the system with my 7 yr old pioneer dvd player dv-5310kd and performed manual setup. The movie experience was very good but audio exp was so so..
week 2 : fiddled a lot with the 1910 audio controls, tried 2ch stereo, 5ch stereo, direct mode, pure direct mode etc but was not satisfied with audio exp. So performed audessey setup and tried again but was still not satisfied. Suspected the old pio was the weakest link.
week 3: Then it was back to the forum to buy a new dvd player. research and research , read reviews ..
week 4 : Finally decided that pioneer 610 would be a good bet for my needs but this model was not available anywhere. Waited for 2 to 3 weeks and contacted various dealers in bangalore but to no avail.
After lot of thought decided that I needed to increase my budget to buy a good dvd player that was also very good on audio. In some of the threads I came across dvd players denon 1740 and CA dvd 99. Took audition of dvd 99 and was bowled over the audio and video playback.
Bought this from audio planet koramangala for 12.5K.
Setup the new dvd player and WOW ! what a drastic improvement in the sound and picture quality ! I am completely satisfied with my setup now.
CD playback as well as movie watching is a pleasure now.
A big thanks to this forum and its various members !!
