[jakepunk]

Does anyone have any recommendations for this book?  The second edition was printed in 2002, and I'm wondering if it is still relevant.  I have his audio book and found it informative.  If there are other good introductory sources for home theater, I'm all ears. 

[MaxCast]

Four years seems like a long time.  Off the top of my head the only things I can think of that may be missing is 7.1, HiDef sources and new connections (HDMI).

IMO, you can learn everything you need to know from audio forums such as this.

[bgewaudio]

Jakepunk,

I have this book as well, and I have found it very useful. It is full of up-to-date information for the experienced A/V enthusiast, as well as easy to understand for amateurs.

I give it a high recommendation, and a must have for anyone wanting to expand their knowledge about A/V systems and applications.

Like Max said, alot of the newer high rez interconnects are not explained.

Barry

[bubba966]

Four years seems like a long time.  Off the top of my head the only things I can think of that may be missing is 7.1, HiDef sources and new connections (HDMI).

4 years ago I was running 7.1, and had HiDef LD as one of my sources. So the tech was out then, just might not have been covered in a book like that as it wasn't common tech back then.

[MaxCast]

Four years seems like a long time.  Off the top of my head the only things I can think of that may be missing is 7.1, HiDef sources and new connections (HDMI).

4 years ago I was running 7.1, and had HiDef LD as one of my sources. So the tech was out then, just might not have been covered in a book like that as it wasn't common tech back then.

Awh, come on.  We all know you had 5 old pro-logic receivers dazy chained to get your surround. 

[bubba966]

Four years seems like a long time.  Off the top of my head the only things I can think of that may be missing is 7.1, HiDef sources and new connections (HDMI).

4 years ago I was running 7.1, and had HiDef LD as one of my sources. So the tech was out then, just might not have been covered in a book like that as it wasn't common tech back then.

Awh, come on.  We all know you had 5 old pro-logic receivers dazy chained to get your surround. 

Nahh, my VSX-39TX has 7.1 processing, and I've had it for just over 6 years now.

Although at one point I did actually think about running multiple receivers to run a setup similar in style to an SDDS 8 setup (SDDS 8 has 5 screen channels L/LC/C/RC/R).

But since it would've cost me nearly $6K to do that I figured it wasn't worth the hassle to buy 2 more 39TX's & 2 more speakers, and try and set them up when my front stage is all of 11' wide...