Bitter disappointment

Advantages: Design; connectivity
Disadvantages: DVD player; menus

...I used to have DMR 50. It was a decent piece of equipment, even though with some quirks. Very unfortunately, after about two years the DVD player went... well... s***apens. I wasn't overly concerned and decided to get a newer version of a Jamo DVD player, DMR 60. The design is quite slick and fits with pretty much any piece of equipment. Looks very nice in your room among TVs, amplifiers, etc. But that's pretty much all as far as pros go. On the downside... well.. where should I start? My first disappointment was it's menu system. It's like you are going back to the 80s and not in a good way! The menu design is very primitive (remember your Commodores and Sinclairs, well, you get the idea), the file menu can't even display more than a few letters in a file name, so if you have a bunch of files with similar names (for example, few...

Abaminog 22.03.2008 · Read review
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Sound beyond belief with the YAMAHA RX-V457

Advantages: Perfect sound quality & just phenomenal all round
Disadvantages: there are none

...It is really the best peice of equiptment in my house, i have it set up to the jamo's surround sound system, my 44" pioneer plasma and it interlinks with everything from my DVD player and my sky+. When this baby is increased to full volume for movies like pearl harbour you really cant be in the room, it sounds like there is a full blown war in my house, even from the outside. The sound does not get fuzzy as the volume increases the furniture just shakes. The normal volume that mine stays at is in the minus 20 section, it is loud when the volume is at zero so you have to decrease it into the minus numbers. When I purchased this product a professional installed it and gave me a rundown of all its features so it was easy to understand and operate. The instruction manual is there for convenience however you wont be needing it...

plainpaul 22.02.2009 · Read review
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My Formula One

Advantages: Great spectator sport
Disadvantages: Only once a fortnight

...Schumacher, who has an older brother, Who seems to treat him like a kid, and thinks he is his mother. Ralph is doing well now, a champion in the making, But needs a little care when into corners he is breaking. Heinz-Harold Frentzen for the Jordan Team he tracked, No-one knows what happened, but it seems that he’s been sacked. Jamo Trulli was his team mate, on whose shoulders it will fall, To help Ricardo Zonta get the team back on the ball. Now for Michael Schumacher, who many people think is best, His prima-donna attitude seems to give Ferrari zest, I think he is a spoilt kid, throws teddies in the corner, He also cheats to get his way to ensure he is a winner. Murray Walker is a commentator, so is Martin Brundle, A funny pair to say the least and always in a muddle, Won’t be the same when Murray leaves, as he is...

jewels 03.08.2001 · Read review
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Help for Difficult Children

Advantages: Re-position parenting, extremely helpful
Disadvantages: Time taken to attend can be difficult

...worried about picking him up anymore. I even get discreet thumbs up from his teacher when I pick him up to indicate a good day. Needless to say that this isn't the end. My wife is a saint with the kids and works with them every night. She goes through their spellings, reading and always reads them a story. I get involved too but not on the same scale as my wife. She puts me to shame as a parent and I often feel guilty about not doing enough. The latest issue is the possibility of autism. James is slow at reading and she's been asked to take extra work on to help him. Of course, she's done it despite all the other things that she does. I'm making a conscious effort now to do more and even writing this gives me more of a resolve to try harder. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Since writing this, Jamo?s...

Marandina 28.09.2003 · Read review
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Usurped by the Truth or Milleniumzeus Challenge

Advantages: See op
Disadvantages: See op

...want to do something I really love for a change and at least I am trying to change things with a few phone calls to people I know. Otherwise, my lad was diagnosed with acute dyslexia last Summer. My family are the single biggest reason I do most things for so that diagnosis was a shock. Saying that we?ve had issues with Jamo for years so maybe we should have known albeit it took us to pay for our own private assessment in the end to get the diagnosis. We?ve just been granted a Statement of Educational Needs which means he?ll get 1:1 tuition every morning for the foreseeable future. We take him to an extra class outside of school once a week too, as well as working with him at home so he?s coming along quite nicely bearing in mind that he?s 2-3 years behind his peers academically. My family is my biggest happiness and will probably...

Marandina 17.03.2004 (18.03.2004) · Read review
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Choosing a surround sound system

Advantages: Good cinema sound
Disadvantages: Many systems "mis-sold"

...cinema experience then do your homework. Look into JBL, Jamo and Pioneer equipment. Just make sure you get an amp, decoder and speakers. Make sure you get the amp separate to the subwoofer. Make sure you set it all up right and make sure you read the instructions. I hope this has been of some help to you. I've tried to simplify things. Some of this came from a project I did a while ago mainly researching pro-logic decoding. Thanks For Reading. Dean. ------------------------ Terminology ------------------------ Dolby: This company (which has places in Paris, New York and just down the road from me in Wooton Bassett) sets the standards in sound. It's developed most systems in cinemas and most standards used from mono, stereo through to surround sound. Dolby labs are some of the most technologically advanced labs ever. I...

C_W_Monkey 30.08.2005 · Read review
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