213cobra
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| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? CDw,Would you consider the acoustics department at USC, working with THX, to be competent at MC setup?20.2 ch, way beyond any retail configuration, in a room engineered for optimal MC "realism." Stereo or MC was interesting as an acoustical phenom... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? No, D, we don't agree. The "power of 5" is less than the power of 2 in placing realistic music reproduction in your home. The basketball analogy is a non-sequiter. More drivers in more positions with more crossovers, lower quality all the way arou... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? D_edwards,Surround in a pure music sense, sans center, sans TV, sans any expectation of ever being used for a movie soundtrack with the associated image in view, is still the same problem -- on a fixed $10K, one can easily assemble 2 channels that... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? Oh.. CD... you had more questions:1/ I didn't drop any names regarding equipment. I can but I didn't.2/ If I set your expectations for fidelity with $10,000 of 2 channel system, you will not want to degrade it by subbing in 5.1 lesser channels. In... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? Cdwallace,One has to be definitive to be heard in these debates. So I take a clear position which also corrseponds to what I believe, advise and have experienced.Look, it doesn't matter what has been posited academically or by research labs regard... | |
| Zu Druid or Tone + sub If space and configuration permit, Druids are more efficient and have higher resolution. I'd take them over Tones + Mini-Method.However, if you insist on bass below 38Hz to feel satisfied and your budget precludes Druids + Sub, then Tones are viab... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? If you have to distribute $10,000 over 5+ speakers, a subwoofer, 6+ channels of amplification, a processor and the usual digital source, in music fidelity terms you've got nuthin'. Put that money into two channels only and the quality of everythin... | |
| High Efficiency Monitors - List Zu Tones will be easily driven by the Garber SET, and the midrange is undisturbed by split duties between drivers. They are 95/96 db/w/m in real circumstances but play a little more dynamically than that.Ref 3a dC or Dulcet should be fine too. I o... | |
| High Efficiency Monitors - List Reference 3A DulcetReference 3A deCapoZu ToneThese speakers give you tweeters and therefore full harmonic representation of what's going on. Omegas are interesting but aren't wideband enough, IMO, to qualify as monitors. These three speakers will ... | |
| Has anyone auditioned the BeoLab 5 speakers? You can't really evaluate a B&O speaker on B&O electronics, and come away feeling like you know what the speaker is capable of. I took an extended vacation from hifi several years ago. Sold most of my geeky gear and put away the rest. But ... | |
| Sonus Faber Cremona Auditor - Subwoofer ? Quick & fast monitor; even REL can't keep up with it. The transient discontinuity will be distracting. The cure is Zu Mini-Method. You can just about afford one according to your preferences, but stereo subs are what to reach for.Phil | |
| Your best picks for 2006 Best Speakers under 4K. Bartokfan,I'm in Los Angeles. A Zu Druid/Seas shootout is welcome. Where are you?Phil | |
| K&K any comments? Ah, Plinko, but Pedrillo's subject line is: "K&K any comments?"I think my initial answer was entirely within that mandate. Moreover, his post said, "I think I finally decided on..." That's less than a definitive decision to purchase. And then,... | |
| K&K any comments? 4yanx, Dan,For the record, while I do have Zu Druids on a second system and did listen to the K&K there, my evaluation and comments of record were in the context of the higher resolution Zu Definitions I have on my primary system. Dan, I'd be ... | |
| K&K any comments? And no, 4yanx, the rest of my system was not the culprit in the K&K's inability to project sound into the room. If you know Zu Definitions and any decent 845 amp, you know this is not the case. The system is highly involving, dynamic, spatiall... |