woke up 12 pm................ at the same time, the salesguy gave me a call and informed that his delivery man is on the way.......
so at about 1 pm.....the onkyo and MJ were at my doorstep.....
left it lying and .....firstly went for my daily fix: read papers...... then began to unpack slowly..... first the onkyo .... this beast is 28 kg! that's over 60 lbs....!!! quite a monster and i cant imagine what the 905 was like..... with the toroid transformer, it is a 2-person job to carry it around...
one key thing that i always do: clean all the connectors with contact cleaner to preserve the original bling bling finish...... next step: covered all the unused connectors with teflon tape... of cos it's easier to have those rubber covers... but i didnt have that many in hand..... so gotta DIY....
after all that..... time to connect the speaker cables...... from centre, surround backs, surrounds and front L-R..... made sure the polarity is correct and the binding posts are secure
other tasks:...
connected dvd player.....component and digital connection to onkyo....
starhub set-top box to onkyo....
added 1 hdmi connection for my future ps3....
and finally hdmi from onkyo to LG tv...... yeah finally 1080p.... !!!!!!!
with the amp in place....... i unpacked the MJ ref 100 mk 2....... and went through the user manual before its installation... quite straightforward.... i used only the low level input for the moment.... and also screwed the spikes in.......... turn on the power .....yeah..... looking good ... it's a tough little guy.... so compact and yet so well made....
amp set up took a longer time....gotta assign the inputs.......adjust the monitor settings for hdmi........ then started the audyssey speaker set up routine.............. the software is pretty good but also made some mistakes..... so i gotta change some settings manually......
started playing a few dvds.......upscaled picture is good............sound is good, more explosive yet richer and more informative..... so much better depth from the centre speaker..... and full 7.1 surround effects..... ....
"hell freezes over" was great.......so was eric clapton...... star wars episode 2 .....master and commander...... shi mian mai fu also........... wow so fun.... haha
tired...... but *thumbs up*..... will show u guys the pictures soon....
No comments:
Post a Comment