d_edwards
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| Has anyone heard meridian No 51 Yes, I'm suggesting that the Theta will be very competitive especially with Levinson gear whichHas never proven to be better than Theta in my experience.And Levinson digital is mediocre at best.May be more supportive if you were pursuing a Reimyo ... | |
| Has anyone heard meridian No 51 Use your Casablanca as the DAC for the RT-20. Buy a $80 digital Cable....Done.You will be hard pressed to beat the Casablanca as a two channel DAC especially when you have to run whatever player you get through the Casablanca anyway! | |
| Violin, Viola,Cello background noise Its the artists and their clothing, or that's the trigger only percussionist and the trombone players have to move as much as someone playing a bowed instrument.What makes the sound strange is the gating and compression used in the recording to he... | |
| Xover parts quality,/sound difference? Undertow,I hate to be contrary but your post makes little or no sense...brand name dropping is always a bad sign as capacitors have Q factors that make them right or wrong for a circuit. Labels do not make great capacitors, its been proven time an... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Shadorne,Wait till you hear the custom amp packs crossovers were making for the (right now independently) for the ATC line. Still trying to get Billy to sign on but it will have to wait till he visits for the AES show this fall. Hopefully he can s... | |
| Musical Heaven, NOT Audio or Speaker heaven … They are great speakers, congrats | |
| Best $200 speaker cables for overall performance? Yeah a Matching center channel and a subwoofer.Cables make almost no difference with your current system and I thought it was a Sony receiver?$200 for cables in your situation is a waste of valuable $$$ | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Kal said it better than I could."Following that same logic, makes me wonder why so many claim a mid priced receiver, with sufficient power of course, is all that is needed to get great surround sound."Actually your description is not a qualifier. ... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? "How do you get surround sound from 2 channels. By synthesis?"Actually Metralla every stereo disc has surround information on it, all you need to do is study a little about the pick up patterns of microphones and mic arrays.Also realise that all r... | |
| Paradigm ADP150's in a 7.1 system HK is monopole all the way, you should be looking 3se's or Monitor se's for rear channels.The Harman Group has some homogeny with their surround algorithms, only the all out THX units of old will mention dipoles.http://manuals.harman.com/hk/Owner%... | |
| Paradigm ADP150's in a 7.1 system Spanky, often the speakers will not be literaly defined, as Javachip has expressed this need for freedom of choice in his post.Manufacturers will draw pictures of the speaker layout showing sound coming out of the speakers dipole monopole.What bra... | |
| Speakers for Hip Hop and vocal??? "I know hi fi speakers are not really meant for hip hop"That's some wrong thinking there! I would rec. splitting your budget between a sub and satellite, ie.ATC SCM12's and Rel Strata, or a Velodyne F1200, ParadigmReference 1500?, you get the idea... | |
| Tube preamp as foundation for 2 channel upgrade Radical Upgrade suggestionSell the Talons, Never buy speakers built in Utah or Colorado!Now you have almost $8K to spendBYE Bye BG's$1.5K?Sell the Aragon, very "sterile" amplifierNow you have 10K ish?Sell the Anthem ($.5K?Buy 3 Blue Sky Big Blue M... | |
| popping noise when switching tv channels The sound cable(coax) from the cable box ----try an optical cable.But it sounds like you have a cable ground problem, might even be intermittant with the high AC load due to Air Conditioning etc.Build yourself a "magic" to lift the ground on your ... | |
| A Question for Maggie lovers/owners "That other speakers do certain things better, but do not give the "Gestalt" of the music like Magnepans do?"As a past dipole lover and maggie owner, the gestalt you seek is the reverberation created by a fullrange dipole speaker.The monopoles you... |