Sorry for the wall of text. My wife and I needed a new receiver since our old one blew the AMP. For Christmas my wife bought a NAD T-758 for $1000 since she heard how amazing the audio was. It has enough HDMI ports for our devices, but does not have a 4k passthrough. It also has MDC which potentially allows you to change out video/audio modules as technology changes (assuming a module has been released). Looking these up they currently do not offer a 4K module and the modules themselves appear to be extremely expensive. So this morning I was looking at other receivers and found something that looks much more future proof and is even $200 cheaper. The Onkyo TX NR838. It appears to put out similar quality sound with slightly higher power output. It also has a clean 4k passthrough and a few other functional features the NAD does not have. I am looking to hear from anyone who might have a better suggestion for a receiver or can compare the two of these for me so I know I am making the right choice. $800 - $1000 range is where we are at here and we hope to have something that is durable, has excellent audio, and solid video. 4k Would be a huge plus. The ethernet, Wifi, and other misc internet services are not important to us. If there is a better sub for this question then let me know. Thanks for reading!
This was someone's comment from another post, just wondering what you thought of it.
"Tile is the biggest scam of the home improvement illuminati. "Oh it's so easy, you can do it yourself, you just sponge the grout in between the tiles, these little plastic spacers take all the work out of it". Anyone who has ever tiled knows this is all bullshit created to draw you into the Lowes vortex.
You know why tiling looks so easy on TV? It's because half the time they're doing it on a mock-up wall. They aren't dealing with corners, wall fixtures, uneven surfaces, unsquare walls, or goofy dimensions that require you to cut most of your tiles into goofy shapes. Plus the TV crews have an army of guildsmen hiding behind the scenes to make sure that the materials are just perfect. I've never seen thinset that was capable of holding a tile to a wall. I've never seen grout that wasn't more interested in making a mess out of my sponge. What I have seen is plastic spacers that refuse to release from between the tiles once the glue is dry, tiles that come out of the box with inconsistent dimensions, shower enclosures for which no combination of clever cuts can yield a nicely laid out border pattern, and floor tiles that incessantly rock yet can't be pried loose to attempt a re-glue.
TLDR fuck tile"
my house has this strange (to me) backing for the plaster.
the wall is made of at most 1/2 inch of plaster and other cement thing, and then the backing is this thick (1 inch or so) fiber board.
it's made of light brown fine fibers. it breaks easily by hand. looks like this a bit http://inspectapedia.com/insulation/Bowling_Alley_Lane_Insulation_0511_DJFs.jpg
how do I anchor heavy things in this type of material?
I want to put some shelves and a dresser in a kid room and I don't want things to tilt/fall on the kid because the anchor came out of the fiber board
I have some metal screws that look like this https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4xeGU1PIIBnQETjUqiGF6GtkOC5zLLaI4o0_bdvavsyzgIeXLQxQWm16K6dwKVqW9Yl4itoA0pl22Kgklvhj0cuo8uApHyduVKub0ouoeFkdlt2FppdlGRzYuQe8oVDqEvNZXqvLYwvk/s200/selfDrilling.jpg
would those work?
