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1st Post Intro & Ramblings

Hi all, I have been a member for about 10 years and never posted anything although I do read a lot. Figured at some point I would, 10+ years later......

 Profession, Audio Visual Tech 22 years. I mostly work in house corporate, conventions and trade shows. Spent some time building clubs, worked a few concerts and home audio has been more of a hobby for a very long time and I have designed and built a few very high end setups years ago. I always hated working professionally on home audio, the customers and sales people are either to cheap or knee deep in marketing and cannot take advice from professionals. My experience has led me to be more aware of the budget, a vast majority cannot spend $10-20k on a stereo and yet some of us spend that on a just 1 component. 
I think that will suffice as an introduction, next I will post some of what I have learned along the way. Keep in mind, most of my recommendations come with a budget mindset instead of $$$ all out performance $$$.
kreapin

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glupson
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I was really thinking what happens if you play a mono CD, or a record I guess, through the surround system. Mono as in, let’s say, 1951 recording. Real mono from the start, not anything downmixed or processed in some similar way.

I have never had an opportunity to hear that, but I am interested if anyone has paid attention to it. If I had to guess, if all chanells are playing the same, the sound should be right in the middle of the room. In some way, right in the spot where a listener would be ideally sitting. That is just my guess, not my claim.
glupson
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Where is the image of a mono material in the home theater (surround, many speakers, etc.) setting? Is it right in the middle of the room, or somewhere else? Does it feel like headphones?
glupson
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I am yet to figure out who helped who, but would like to mention that I actually like mono. Not that it is end of it all, just that it is enjoyable to me, too.
glupson
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"This is correct. More people should know this. Save a huge amount of time. Unbelievable amount of time."

Why would anyone want to save time with a hobby? Isn't hobby about wasting time?

"Do you have a string or something we can use for a straight line? Yes."

Why were the vendors bringing long strings to the show? Was there a Boy Scout convention in the area, too? If they had brought it for speaker placement issues, wouldn't they already know how to use it before some imposter told them to?
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