Advantages: Great home theatre sound, fantastic value for money Disadvantages: Unattractive styling, somewhat bulky
My Home Theatre was a reasonable system by any measure and better than most. However, my wife re-arranged the living room furniture and in one stroke my cherished system was made redundant. My two rear wall mounted speakers were now on my left and with no possibility to be mounted somewhere else.
It was time to look at the Polk & Yamaha products.
Unable to audition a Polk SurroundBar and YamahaYSP-1000 in an A/B comparison, I consequently decided to purchase both, with the idea that I would eventually keep one and sell the other.
I have now had both units for about 10 weeks and when doing my A/B comparisons, both systems are set up so that one speaker is sitting just above the other, playing the same material at the same volume and with instant A/B switching via remote control.
Note - It takes quite a few readings ...
Andrisim 11.09.2006 (14.09.2006)
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Advantages: No need for 5 speakers and cables. Really does work! Disadvantages: Needs careful positioning
What HiFi gave this a 5 star rating with good reason. Its an impressive piece of kit and now that it has come down in price, offers a real alternative to load of speakers around the room.
This is why I bought one. The thought of 5 speakers plus cables trailed across your front room does not really appeal, especially if you have laminate flooring, so looking at an alternative option meant the Yamaha.
Yamaha produce two different models. The YSP1100 is the more meaty one able to produce louder and deeper sounds by virtue of having more speakers, larger speakers and louder speakers - its as simple as that!
But does it work? Well yes it does. The setup is the key. You have a microphone that measures sound in your room and how it bounces off the walls. It then does all the rest. Bottom line is that sound bounces off your walls in such ...
Advantages: Wonderfully refined sportsbike, Looks ace, great comfort for a sportsbike Disadvantages: Desirability, likelihood of theft, high insurance group
"Don't try to be clever with it, that's what the guy on the Gixxer did, he tried to be clever and now it's in a right old state. This one's brand new and immaculate, and we'd like it back in this condition"
I am in the motorcycle shop picking up a hire bike for the weekend. The bike that I had originally booked out, a Suzuki GSX-R1000 K5, is apparently no longer roadworthy, so I've been offered an R1 instead. I'm OK with that. I was hankering after a go on the king of 1000cc sportsbikes, but sometimes you've just gotta go with the flow. In any case didn't Wills just buy an R1? Well, if it's good enough for the second in line to the throne, it's good enough for me. Having just been told there's a £750 damage excess, I'm starting to feel a bit nervous, that I'll do a repeat performance of gixxer boy, and put myself £750 in the red ...
goodo 11.07.2006
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