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| Who turns center off when listening to music Who the hell owns and listens to a high-end, 2-channel system and doesn’t sit in the sweet spot? I think most everybody with a high end 2 speaker system has a chair in the sweet spot. Still, I work with a lot of people who appreciate their high... | |
| Who turns center off when listening to music @soix I totally understand why they don’t use a center channel. I’ve been to audio shows and listened to plenty of high-end 2 channel systems. I know what they can do. A center channel used the way I use it does something they can’t do. It can p... | |
| Who turns center off when listening to music @kota1 I'm with you and the chairman on the center channel. Not sure about that bowl of cigarettes. I guess he needed those to maintain his singing voice. | |
| Why do almost all women today hate home audio? This thread got me thinking about how my whole family was pretty caught up in music. My mother and sister were both very involved in the stereo system - at least as much as me and my dad. They had their albums and they loved to play them loud, all... | |
| Who turns center off when listening to music I use the center channel all the time for everything. I listen almost exclusively to 2 channel recordings and up-mix everything to 3 channels with simple channel summing and subtracting - no complex processing. The 3 speakers are very close togeth... | |
| Denon PMA-A110 110 Anniversary Edition I haven't heard this unit yet but I'm interested. I have listened to the less expensive Denon 900HNE integrated amp in my home and I thought it had something special going for it in the mids and highs when powering some little Sony SSCS-5 bookshel... | |
| AES/EBU cable shootout When we "hear" a difference, it means we perceive a difference. That may mean we have actually detected a difference in the air pressure modulations reaching our ears, or it may have something to do with what's going on after the sound reaches our... | |
| Interesting Power Cable Experience If you're interested enough, put the other cable back on to make sure. Take a measurement with both cables, see what the difference is in real numbers. "Too much" isn’t telling us much. Is it an extra 3dB? 6dB? At what frequencies? I noticed a sou... | |
| A Different "Analog" Question My father left me a nice Breitling self winding watch. I wear it all the time and really like the fact that it is a single function device that's sturdy as can be and doesn't care about being charged or getting updated or finding service. I didn't... | |
| I found audio nirvana.... They key to audio nirvana for me is to quit the critical listening mode and just forget about what the system sounds like when I want to groove on the music. When I want to work on the system and try to improve the sound I'll do that. It's a diffe... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... My best experience listening to a symphony orchestra was up near the front. I totally loved it. I've had some other experiences in concert halls where I'd have been happier listening to a record at home. | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? I see a lot of ultra exotica being offered these days. For instance, road bicycles in the $20,000 range are available. That prices out people like me, but it doesn't mean that really great new bikes aren't available for much less, and these are li... | |
| Making speakers “disappear”….. I find one really important issue is very accurate channel matching, and very similar overall response from each speaker at the listening position. This requires a high degree of room symmetry, at least at the speaker end of the room. Playing pink... | |
| Premium Power Cable Survey: The Results Are IN Years ago I had some Stax headphones and their matching amp. I bought some kind of expensive power cord for it. I honestly couldn't detect any change in the sound. I tried really hard to hear something but didn't get even the subtlest of impressio... | |
| Room treatment 14' x 14', hmm. I wonder if you could set up on a 45, play out of one corner of the room, opposite the dormer of course? Have you tried that? The back wave off the Magnepans wont have a flat wall behind it that way, but instead be bounced sideways... |