Need advice on Ascend 5.1 purchase decision...

[Beelzebud]

The man of the hour is the UPS guy.... I just love working at home

[Mag_Neato]

Excellent! Get'em hooked up, play'em, and by all means.........enjoy

Oh, and post your thoughts too

[Beelzebud]

Okay, it's not really my first impressions... that happened about 11 hours ago... ... it's now creeping up on 3:30am, the girlfriend's in New Jersey until Thursday night and I can't justify going to sleep. Too many sonic and subsonic possibilities! Every great review I've read about these speakers just nails it with the incredible imaging and sound stage. So far this evening / morning....

DVD's
The Rock - WOW!!! I'd forgotten how much I love this movie and the Criterion Edition DTS is pretty cool.
Batman Begins - Good HT workout inspite of no DTS
Diana Krall - Live in Paris - great musicians, great imaging, great DVD
James Taylor - Pull Over - Can't believe how much detail I was missing on this performance
YES - Symphonic - I wasn't that impressed with this DVD when I picked it up last year...I am now...
The Incredibles, Master and Commander, Spiderman 2, Gladiator... Whoa!!!
Okay, let's just say I'm extremely happy with my purchase decision...
I've been listening to Morphine for the past 2 hours and the Ascends do an amazing job with the baritone sax...buena, buena, buena. The cd collection gets a good run tomorrow... today...
I think I'll call it a morning...althoughhhh... I haven't used any sick days this year...
Is it wrong for a 44 year old man to pull an all-nighter on a school night and get this much pleasure from a new set of speakers? I think not...

Bud

My 5.1 set-up:
Pioneer Elite Pro620HD 58" RPTV
Pioneer VSX 1015TX
Pioneer DV 656a player
CMT340 - L, R, C
CBM 170 - surrounds
SVS 25-31 PCi - tuned to 22hz

[curtis]

Is it wrong for a 44 year old man to pull an all-nighter on a school night and get this much pleasure from a new set of speakers? I think not...

Neither do I!

Another Morphine fan!

[Beelzebud]

Might you also be a fan of Twinemen? Great bass and midrange listening... I've downloaded some of their stuff, but haven't given a lot of attention to the cd collection recently, at least, until last night... I just ordered their catalog frrom Hi-n-Dry.com... the sax and bass groove of Morphine rocks on....

[Mag_Neato]

Just what the world needs.......more SAX and VIOLINS!!!!

[curtis]

Nope, never heard of Twinemen.

I learned of Morphine because a friend used to date the lead(way before Morphine was formed). When Morphine was in town for a show, she got a bunch of us together to see them....and I was hooked. It is sad what happenned as I think they were just breaking through.

[Beelzebud]

Twinemen is sax player Dana Colley and drummer Billy Conway of Morphine. Laurie Sargent sings and plays guitar (yes, they now have a guitar player). She toured with them in Orchestra Morphine. Same kind of dark-bluesy-jazz-hard-to-categorize-but-extremely-cool vibe that Morphine had going with Mark Sandman. Definitely worth a listen

http://www.twinemen.com/index.html

[curtis]

Thanks!!!

[curtis]

Beelze...I got Twinemen's first CD. Thumbs up! I ordered their current CD.