I did, and dude it sounded AWESOME. I've just come from the Klipsch booth and I have to say the home theater setup I played with may be one of the sweetest little things I've seen yet. [today that is, ;)]
This right here is sleek as hell and has more response than it should. The sound is like you would expect from Klipsch, clear, sweet, and with enough boom to fill up your room. This is really surprising given the fact that the setup is a 2.1 system. The one thing I have learned from all the audio that I have been listening to is that 5.1 can be overrated. Bear with me now. I always thought that 5.1 or even 7.1 was the holy grail of home theater setups. I want to be bombarded with a wall of sound, a wall so dense that when I talk trash to the poser that my player character is currently tbaggin' and can almost feel his pain. Taste my nutz you bastid!
Sorry, that wasn't called for. I shall move on.
I hit the show floor this morning with a plan: to dive into home audio and not come up for air until I hit some speakers solution that didn't kill my wallet but might lead to my becoming deaf. And while the best "blow your ass out of the water" setup comes from a company called Earthquake [they started in car audio] it unfortunately was a bit more the type of product that would appear in some rap dudes place on MTV Cribs and not in my tiny little apartment in VA. No, the better options that I found come from Klipsch and possibly a company called Paradigm. I only a small preview at the Cinema 5.1 home theater in a box from Paradigm so I can't speak on just how bad it is, but the Klipsch set I did play with on the floor and I can tell you honestly: It doesn't suck.
Now, it ain't cheap [coming in at $1299] but if you already dropped a grand on gaming systems you might as well get an easy to configure, booming bass havin', sleek looking, small footprint using system from Klipsch. It by far has the richest sounding 2.1 speaker setup that I have seen. Oh yeah, if you know what it means, the subwoofer is class D and fires downward.
Drool rags at the ready.
This right here is sleek as hell and has more response than it should. The sound is like you would expect from Klipsch, clear, sweet, and with enough boom to fill up your room. This is really surprising given the fact that the setup is a 2.1 system. The one thing I have learned from all the audio that I have been listening to is that 5.1 can be overrated. Bear with me now. I always thought that 5.1 or even 7.1 was the holy grail of home theater setups. I want to be bombarded with a wall of sound, a wall so dense that when I talk trash to the poser that my player character is currently tbaggin' and can almost feel his pain. Taste my nutz you bastid!
Sorry, that wasn't called for. I shall move on.
I hit the show floor this morning with a plan: to dive into home audio and not come up for air until I hit some speakers solution that didn't kill my wallet but might lead to my becoming deaf. And while the best "blow your ass out of the water" setup comes from a company called Earthquake [they started in car audio] it unfortunately was a bit more the type of product that would appear in some rap dudes place on MTV Cribs and not in my tiny little apartment in VA. No, the better options that I found come from Klipsch and possibly a company called Paradigm. I only a small preview at the Cinema 5.1 home theater in a box from Paradigm so I can't speak on just how bad it is, but the Klipsch set I did play with on the floor and I can tell you honestly: It doesn't suck.
Now, it ain't cheap [coming in at $1299] but if you already dropped a grand on gaming systems you might as well get an easy to configure, booming bass havin', sleek looking, small footprint using system from Klipsch. It by far has the richest sounding 2.1 speaker setup that I have seen. Oh yeah, if you know what it means, the subwoofer is class D and fires downward.
Drool rags at the ready.
Labels: CES, Gaming-Rig-Supreme, Home-Theater-Audio, Klipsch, Ninjasistah, Teabaggin