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RE: Pretty much what you said about the Esoteric fantja...

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In Reply to: RE: Pretty much what you said about the Esoteric fantja... posted by Jim Pearce on December 25, 2016 at 20:54:15

13 years can be a long time for certain electronics- Jim.
Is your Anthem breaking down as well?

The reason I mentioned the Pioneer Elite, it is the only better Video source, compared to my Sony XBR CRT (now 12 years old and still looks perfect). I had a chance to view both sets prior to buying. The Pioneer Elite was substantially more in cost back in 2004.

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the TV and pre-pro could go on forever... - Jim Pearce 06:25:56 12/26/16 (3)
By the way that particular model was $20,000 CDN in 2002; I paid $13,000 in 2003. Anyway, my plan always was to bring the whole system up to current SOTA, provided that I could sort the wheat (4K) from the chaff (3D). Where I am now is, within a year I want a pre-pro that does 4K and Atmos (I could go 5.1.2) and a 4K TV. I 'll then upgrade the Oppo to the upcoming BDP-205. And that should be it for the rest of my natural days.

Quite frankly UHD Blu-ray and such don't really impress me much: not because of anything technical so much as a lack of content that will ever be meaningful to me. I can get as much pleasure from watching Casablanca off the Fibe TV DVR in the bedroom on the 51" Samsung F5500 plasma ($600) and Polk Audio MagniFi Mini ($400) as I'll get from any system, regardless of specs. But I'm ready to play the game one more time, as long as I don't have to compromise the visual or auditory playback of my thousands of "legacy" discs.
- RE: the TV and pre-pro could go on forever... - fantja 14:08:14 12/30/16 (1)
  Jim-
  
  how do those Anthem Receivers sound?
  - RE: the TV and pre-pro could go on forever... - Jim Pearce 20:49:19 12/30/16 (0)
    They are ridiculously good fantja: the sound in analog direct is comparable to a fine analog pre-amp.
- RE: the TV and pre-pro could go on forever... - fantja 06:47:03 12/26/16 (0)
  I can remember the 1st generation Pioneer Elite Plasma was $25K.
  
  Sounds like you have a plan- Jim. Keep me posted on your journey.

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