Hi Guys!

My name is Matt and I'm pretty much an audio neophyte.

I'm just starting to get into the audio world. The impetus to start was to improve my family's movie watching experience. We were just using the built in TV speakers and often had problems understanding dialog. For example, in 3:10 to Yuma there is a scene where Russel Crowe walks behind a woman and talks quietly behind her. Nobody could understand what he was saying. I replayed it 5 times and still nobody could catch it.

That started me looking for a better solution with clarity being the priority. I read AVS, several HT boards and heard some pretty positive reviews about Ascend's speakers. I found a gentleman that was selling the front 3 Natural Sierras because he was moving to a smaller place. So now I had speakers, did some more research and bought an Onkyo 805 to hook up to my PS3 for Blu-ray. I must say that there was a dramatic improvement in the sound quality and it's amazing how much more immersing movies are. My next steps are to get surround sound speakers and a subwoofer.


I've talked with Dina a few times and Dave once. Got my warranty transferred over and bought some speaker cables to replace the cheap speaker wires that I bought at Best Buy. They both seem like fabulous people. They are very nice, easy to talk with, and Ascend's customer services is top notch.

Oh, this is an introduction thread, right? If you've gotten this far, thanks for listening.

Regards,

Matt