What got you into home theater… what ignited your urge to want a home theater?

[Tim Dawson]

Cool... another Lexicon fan that went through the CP and DC models. They were one of the favorites in the 90s.

Still running my DC2's . . . have not found anything yet that justified thencost to change again, and the only problem they ever seem to have is the power supply, which is an off the shelf item that is about $35 and can be changed in less than 10 minutes . . .

FWIW . . .

 

[BennyS]

How much did that 65-incher weigh?

I don't miss the days of CRT weight... tho, I'm guessing yours was a rear projection?

It was HEAVY!!!

 

[Nordo]

In the early '60s (I was probably around 14) I sat in someone's bedroom and listened to a stereo for the first time.
It was a good system for it's time, and the LP was Harry Belafonte in concert.
I was totally blown away.

From then on my dream was to have a decent stereo system.
Once I got my first full time job (late '60s), I bought my first stereo (separates, but very basic) and my first LP was a Smokey Robinson album.

Moving forward to the late '90s and we sold part of the land we were living on, and my wife allowed me to build a home theatre onto the side of our house.
I had always liked to make improvements if possible to things I owned (e.g. all my cars I had altered to achieve maximum efficiency, power and handling).
Thanks to lots of help from audio forums, I designed the room, I designed and build all the room treatment, I designed and built all the 7.1 speakers, except the centre.
That room was my "man cave", and I was always tweaking and fiddling to see if I could make it the best it could be, given the financial limitations my wife put on me.

Sadly we have moved homes about 4 years ago, and I now have to tolerate a 65" TV (better than any projector I had in the home theatre) and a sound bar which came with a small sub and 2 rears.