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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 103744" data-attributes="member: 134">Wait! I'm not done with you yet, Monkey.No, I haven't taken a baseball bat to Firepower yet, but it is in pieces right now as I try to restore it. It worked fine, but there were issues that weren't letting it play 100%. First pin I've owned, and within a month I couldn't take it and tore it apart. Now I'm in a very slow process of restoring the play field, mostly slow because I'm lazy! To top things off, once I'm done I'm just gonna try and trade up to a table I actually want.So let's talk HDTV. I bought a Pioneer Elite RPTV back in 2001. I immediately paid a nice chunk of change to have a ISF guy calibrate it. It was stunning. What I didn't know was, with RPTVs you gotta keep on getting 'em calibrated every so often. So ten years later, I was looking at a pic where my blacks had gone to mush (needs a gamma reset), the focus is not as crisp, and the overscan is driving me bonkers. All correctable, but no calibrator wanted to touch an RPTV anymore, if they even knew how. Only guy I found on AV forum was 'Mr Bob', who really has made a business of bringing these things back to full glory, but at a huge cost. Like, just buy a brand new TV cost. I almost did it though, was about to make arrangements to fly him down (he's in the Bay Area, me SoCal) when it struck me...I'd just have to get the thing calibrated 2 years later! I opened the TV up, cleaned the lenses and mirror which helped a little, and resigned myself to the pic I have until I can afford the TV I want. Seems black levels have finally started being good at affordable prices, which is a huge thing for me.I cringe every time I walk into Costco and they have the TVs set to 'motion flow' or whatever it's being called. How anyone can look at those soap opera like pictures and think it looks good is beyond me. I go over to friend's houses and beg them to at least throw in a calibration disc or download some settings from AV Forums rather than leave the TV in torch mode. One friend was still using composite cables because he hadn't bothered to buy HDMI for his PS3! And yes, he said he really didn't think it'd make much of a difference.I walked into an audio store one time that had a turntable for $24,000 and then promptly turned right around and walked out. I didn't even wanna waste their time! I do almost 100% of my music listening in the car, so between road noise, a kid in the back seat, or listening to something like NIN, I'm not too concerned with fidelity. I just want loud and clear. I'm sure if I was in a proper sound room with the high end stuff and doing an A/B comparison, I might hear the diffence, but then I also kinda doubt it. I just know to not buy Bose (no highs no lows, must be Bose!).</blockquote>

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