DGA,

Nice room! I'm not sure how the T1s will sound from that comfortable chair...

If I'm not mistaken, I believe I see a fellow Packer Backer! Go Pack, go!!

Cheers,

T Cobe

Hey DGA, Great headphones you got there!!!!! Just joking, I doubt that you actually listen sitting in that chair. But it is a cool looking set up. I wonder if it would sound and image any better if you removed the chair?
I loved my Maggies a long time ago, and for many years my Apogee Stages, but I do not miss either of them with my Tritons!!!!
To me that is saying a LOT.
Sweet setup you have, happy listening and thanks for sharing the pic with us.
God Bless,
Wayne

Packer fan indeed! ....grew up near there. Go Pack Go!

I have taken a few naps in that chair and i must say, it isn't bad! I've screwed around with dozens of speaker placement locations and have found the Tritons pretty forgiving and they're locked on center. I did have to pull them out from the back wall about 3 ft and I'm sure the chair has something to do with that.

It might be the crossover technology found in the Triton one vs Triton two. When purchasing the fives, I would go back and forth between the sevens at the dealers auditioning room. The fives get Triton one crossover technology which makes the fives sound a little better.

Well, after a great deal of self-debate, I decided to pull the trigger on the Emotiva XMC-1 to replace my Onkyo reciever. Should get here by the end of the week.

I've been listening to blurays in 7.x mode (rather than 11.x) quite a bit lately, with direct decoding rather than DSX or Neo:X with highs (SS50s) and wides (T7s) to really compare what those extra channels were giving me. The T1s and T2s as fronts/surrounds are just so damn good at imaging and have such large sound stages that highs and wides really don't add diddly squat IMHO, even using T7s as wides. Certainly not worth the money for extra speakers and amps for the more ambient channels. The difference is/was a bit more prominent when I had T2s in the front and SS50s all around, but honestly after playing with the 11.x setup over the past year, I think as long as one has good gear, Neo:X and DSX is more gimmick than value.

So... I decided that the XMC-1 (which is 7.2) with full Dirac Live should be a nice step up from running the Onkyo reciever as a pre/pro. The Onkyo has much more networking capability (e.g. Pandora, DLNA, internet radio), but I use a roku and an apple tv for those bits anyway. And the really really annoying thing about the Onkyo is it doesn't have a trigger out for the main zone, so I have to use the zpne three trigger to fire up the amp stack. Not a big deal, but the extra set of button pushes on the remote to turn the amps on is just stupid. Onkyo seems stubborn on this particular lack of feature as folks have been complaining for years, but I guess one has to buy their Integra line for a main zone trigger.