• Speaker A/B
• 6 Audio inputs, including Phono input
• 50W/ch x 2ch
• Discrete circuit for High-current drive
• iPod compatible

• High-Power Discrete Transistor (HPDT) multi-channel amplifiers and proprietary Pioneer room calibration technology
• "Works with iPhone" certification and front USB connectivity (cable included) provide iPod, touch
• The latest Dolby Pro Logic Iiz as well as Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD for an immersive audio experience
• The latest version of HDMI inputs and outputs provide more HD connectivity options with "future-proof" 3-D capability
• Simple connectivity of high-performance HD video, HD audio, portable, internet, wireless

• 5 Audio Inputs including Tuner
• 30 Station Presets (Random)
• Quartz PLL Synthesized Digital Tuning
• Switching for two pairs of loudspeakers
• 100 Watts per Channel x 2 in Stereo Mode with less than 0.08% THD, 20 Hz-20 kHz, 8 Ohms

• 1080p video conversion and upscaling ensures the highest quality video from any source
• Simple connectivity of high-performance HD video, HD audio, portable, internet, wireless and analog components
• High-Power Discrete Transistor multi-channel amplifiers and proprietary Pioneer room calibration technology combine to ensure best
• Front panel mini jack provides portable audio player users easy integration of their devices with their home theater
• The latest version of HDMI inputs and outputs provide more HD connectivity options with "future-proof" 3-D capability

• Total Discrete Amplifier stage for all channels
• 5 audio inputs including tuner
• 17 3/8" W x 5" H x 13" D
• Switching for two pairs of speakers
• Phono Section preamp built-in

May 05, 2008 by southerngal109 | Posted in Home Theater

I have a mitsubishi tv and kenwood audio receiver. I bought rca cables for it today but it doesn't seem to work

Need to look for the audio output from your TV and connect it to any audio input to your receiver.
Set your input selector on your receiver to the input your TV is connected to and you should have sound.

Dec 28, 2008 by David K | Posted in Home Theater

I have a 5 year old Kenwood VR-5080 home audio receiver that is properly hooked up to two functioning speakers that are correctly connected. Regardless of what input the sound is coming from the output volume to the speakers is extremely low. The volume range is from +13 at the loudest to -100. Only when the volume is turned to 0 or greater does any sound come out and it is still very quiet (normally -25 is quite loud)? What is wrong?

Oct 26, 2007 by anang2000 | Posted in Home Theater

Hi-I have a TV and it looks like the only audio out is something called SPDIF. I am using an audio receiver that takes the white/red RCA inputs. Is there any way to get my TV to come in through the audio receiver?

You could get a Decoder (see first link) to convert the signal but cost come to mind as an issue. A new receiver with digital ins could work as well. Could you get analog audio from the source device?

I also wish you would disclose the model numbers of your equipment to get a complete idea of hook up. Other than that you may be out.

Oct 26, 2007 by anang2000 | Posted in Home Theater

Hi-I have a VCR that I would like to hook up to my TV and surround sound (audio receiver). I would like the option of watching a movie through the TV only OR watching the movie through the TV with the audio coming from surround sound. Can this be done? Thank you for your help!

You can just hook up your VCR to the receiver and run a tape-out from your receiver to the TV. Receiver would still have to be powered up, but you could keep the volume turned down to use only the TV speakers.

Some receivers even have a special audio out for passing through audio to the TV. Any tape-out will work just fine though. Same thing...

Otherwise, you could use Y-adapters to send the audio from the VCR to the TV and the receiver. Usually some loss of audio quality when using Y-adapters or splitters.

Who gave me a "thumbs down" for being exactly right and offering two different methods? Idiot...

May 08, 2007 by pattycake | Posted in Home Theater

I am putting together a home theater system with components that I am purchasing as I can afford them. I currently have a 5.1 channel surround sound system, a 6.1 channel audio receiver a DVD player and a HDTV. I need to know how to hook them up to my receiver in order to hear my movies and TV in surround sound.

Basically you would hook up everything to your receiver.
I would hook up your DVD player for surround sound via an digital wire (optical or coaxial), output on the DVD player to a input on the receiver. Also the same from your HDTV output to a input on the receiver.
For video you would hook up from your DVD player directly to your HDTV via a component cable. Output on the DVD player to a input on the TV.

Jun 24, 2008 by gibbywmu | Posted in Other - Electronics

I have a brand new Vizio P50, and its controlling my cable box just fine. Didnt have to do anything, just hit "cable" on the remote, and it controls the cable channels fine. The instruction manual isnt that great, and doesnt really tell you how to program the Vizio remote to control your audio receiver, just says that it will do it. Does anyone have any idea how to do this?

Jan 19, 2008 by Coma White (jsts22) | Posted in Home Theater

I know that most home audio receivers are 8 ohms, well I have a dual voice coil sub and each is rated at 4 ohms, so if I wire it to 8 ohms like this - http://www.the12volt.com/caraudio/woofer_configurations.asp?Q=1&I=42 - Would I be able to plug my sub directly into the back of my audio receiver in my house?

hey yes u can

Jan 01, 2008 by Anonymous | Posted in Home Theater

my 5.1 audio receiver has no digital input. Is there any device available to bridge my receiver to connect my DVD player using an optical cable?

If it's a 5.1 receiver it has either (or both) an optical (black square jack) or digital coax (usually an orange RCA jack) input.

You can buy converters from digital coax to optical or optical to digital coax.

http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=504&sku=40019
http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat%5Fid=504&sku=40018

Or, for that matter, from digital coax or optical to analog (although you could then only get matrix (e.g. Prologic) rather than discrete surround from the stereo analog output)

http://www.gefen.com/kvm/product.jsp?prod_id=4907

Apr 29, 2008 by 8.6.7.5.3.0.9 | Posted in Home Theater

I see 1080p outputs on newer receivers now, why does that matter when we are talking about audio?

You'd be missing out on the lossless audio codecs encoded in the BD releases. DTS MA, Dolby True HD, etc... which are bit for bit identical to the studio master.

Mar 07, 2008 by JK | Posted in Home Theater

TV signal is distributed via Coax through home. Want to take the audio from that and play it through an Audio receiver that is not located near any television.
I'm hoping to find something smaller than hooking up a VCR or TV next to the Audio receiver.

You want to demodulate the RF (coax) signal to baseband audio.

Sounds like you're looking for this:

http://www.alltronics.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?item=23V004

They're new and only $40!

27.11.09

For the best players, high school football is a means to an end — a spot on a college team, maybe even the NFL.

But being the center of high school football attention has changed as recruiting now starts earlier and earlier — which may not always create the best decision-making situation for young players and their families.

High-Fives

There's something about the way 16-year-old Kasen Williams catches a football that makes people go "wow!" There are the acrobatic catches, and he's a high jumper, too.

Mat Taylor, his head football coach at Skyline High School, near Seattle, remembers one vertical eye-popper during practice.

"He jumped up and pushed off a kid's shoulder pads, and I swear his feet were 60 inches off the ground," he says. "I mean he was so high up there."

But it's the routine stuff too — the quick out, the slant play across the middle of the field — where Williams' hands seem to suck the ball in like a magnet pulling metal. Like a vacuum, says Taylor.

Last Saturday, two-time defending state champion Skyline High blew out its opponent 49-14, in the quarterfinal round of this year's championship tournament. For Williams, it was another great end-of-the-week performance leading to another back-at-school Monday filled with high-fives.

"You know a lot of people will come up to me and be like, 'Oh good game. That catch that you had was sick.' You know? That kinda stuff. Or like, 'How did you do that?' " says Williams, who adds that he enjoys those comments. "They make me laugh sometimes so … those Mondays are pretty good days for me, yeah."

But Williams wasn't a star the minute he started playing organized football.

The Letters

Aaron Williams coached his son when Kasen first strapped on shoulder pads and a helmet in the fifth grade as a running back. Aaron, a former starting wide receiver at the University of Washington, sits at a table with Kasen in their home in Sammamish, east of Seattle. While Kasen, fresh off two hours of football practice, eats pasta, he listens to his dad recount his football evolution — from a good PeeWee football running back to a 6-foot-2-inch, 200-pound wide receiver at Skyline.

"Early on, it was, 'Um, he's OK,' and then it's like where do they fit? Then they get into high school and … they take it to another level and you're never sure where they stack up with everyone else until you get their first, you know, letter," Aaron says.

The first college recruiting letters arrived two years ago, not long after Kasen, as a freshman, made a couple of spectacular catches that helped Skyline win the 2007 state title. Since then they have kept coming — the catches, the championships and the letters.

There are so many letters and correspondence from all the different schools that have interest in Kasen that his mother, Rhonda, prefers to slide the cardboard box filled with several hundred envelopes across the floor rather than lift it. The orange ones catch the eye. They're from the University of Tennessee, which appears to be gaga over Kasen. One day, the Williamses found seven Tennessee envelopes in the mailbox.

"We want you; come see us play in front of 107,000 Volunteer faithful at Newland Stadium," Rhonda Williams reads from one of the letters.

Kasen thinks it's a little crazy.

"It's definitely overwhelming. And, I look at a lot of them, I make sure I take the time to look at a lot of them, especially the handwritten ones," he says.

Hasty Decisions

Letters from colleges and coaches come early and often now for the high school player with potential. Players are being tagged and evaluated so much more quickly and more thoroughly in large part because of online recruiting services.

Jamie Newberg, a recruiting analyst for rivals.com , says recruiting is about spreading information, and over the past decade, the Internet has spread a blizzard of information about teams, coaches, conferences and players. All that information has ramped up the process.

"Now, everything's become so accelerated. Teams are evaluating earlier, therefore they're offering earlier. Kids and parents are doing their due diligence and research earlier, visiting schools earlier, therefore they're making decisions earlier," he says.

Newberg says sometimes they make those early decisions on where to go to college to simply shut down a process that can get overbearing. And, hasty decisions sometimes are wrong decisions for the players.

Kasen Williams, a junior, isn't sweating his college decision. He says he'll make it by next summer, before his senior season. For now, it's all about Saturday night and a semifinal gaime against rival Bothell High School.

It's one more chance for him to put on the beautiful moves and vacuum up the passes.

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"I thought the first half, we could have had more points," coach Wade Phillips said. "We made some mistakes. It seems like the penalties we had, although we didn't have very many penalties, the ones we had, stopped I think two drives. After that, we had real big plays and we just kept on."

The Cowboys can now worry about knocking off the New York Giants . December hasn't been kind to the Cowboys. Since 1999, the Cowboys are 17-29 in the year's last month. It's the only month in which the team doesn't have a winning record during this time span.

The schedule is daunting, with road games at New York, New Orleans and Washington. Dallas has lost 50 of its last 80 road games overall since 1999.

To prepare for December, the Cowboys made quick work out of Oakland.

"We are not trying to be a great December ballclub," Romo said. "That was not our goal at the beginning of the year. If we end up being a good one, good. That will be a bonus. I think there is something to be said for playing well if you're able to make it to the playoffs."

Calvin Watkins covers the Dallas Cowboys for ESPNDallas.com. E-mail him at calvin.watkins@espn3.com.

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27.11.09

But now I have yet another headphone to check out, and this one is a very different-sounding design. Oh, and it's less than half the price of the least expensive of those models!

It's called the Hifiman HE-5, and it uses planar-magnetic drivers to create sound. A planar magnetic driver is a large, flat Mylar diaphragm, coated with superthin aluminum, suspended between rows of slender bar magnets. The HE-5's diaphragm is therefore driven over its entire area, which dramatically reduces distortion; conventional dynamic headphone drivers are "driven" by a voice coil on the outer edge of the diaphragm, so the inner portion is more likely to distort.

The HE-5's driver is similar to the Stax electrostatic 'phones in that way, but the HE-5 doesn't use the bias charging scheme that all electrostatic headphones use, which also means the HE-5 can be used with standard headphone amplifiers. The Stax cannot.

The HE-5 is incredibly detailed sounding, but at the same time it's very smooth and laid back. Swapping between the HE-5 and the Sennheiser HD 800--considered by many to be the world's best dynamic headphone--the two headphones are opposites. The HD 800 is brighter, crisper, with more apparent treble detail; the HE-5 is softer, warmer, and more natural-sounding.

This is especially obvious when listening to acoustic music; the HD 800, as good as it is, sounds like hi-fi reproduction, while the HE-5 sounds real. That's especially true for vocals; I have never heard more lifelike reproduction of the sound of a human voice as I did from the HE-5. I attribute most of that to the headphones' superlow distortion, but there's more going on. Other dynamic headphones constrict and flatten voices.

Bass? Yeah, the HE-5s do bass. Listen to the way they pound out the thundering drums on Grizzly Bear's "Veckatimest" CD. Definition and bass "air" are also well above par.

The HE-5's soft, cloth-covered earpads feel nice, and the headphone is fairly comfortable. But it's relatively heavy; remember, there are lots of magnets in the real walnut earcups.

The HE-5's headphone cable is removable and therefore user replaceable; the silver-plated copper cable is very thin, but fairly stiff. The 6.3mm plug and housing feel nice and solid.

I love the HE-5, but there are a few qualifiers to consider. First, the HE-5 is a bear to drive, so it won't work on iPods or most portable devices. I used dedicated vacuum-tube headphone amplifiers, the $399 Hifiman EF5, and my Woo Audio WA6 Special Edition amp for most of my listening tests. So sure, you may have to add the cost of a good amp to the price of the HE-5 (but the HE-5 was also pretty amazing plugged into my Onkyo TX-SR805 receiver).

The HE-5 isn't perfect, the Grado PS-1000 is more dynamic, and the Ultrasone Edition 8 makes a lot more bass. But there's something about the way the HE-5 combines remarkable sweetness and effortless detail that I find irresistible. They are my new reference dynamic headphones.

The HE-5 headphones are available from Head-Direct for $599 , and with the EF5 amp for $899. In any case, they're a whole lot cheaper than the best Grado, Sennheiser, Stax, or Ultrasone headphones.

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