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| Holy Crap What have I done? Have any of you played with the inexpensive outboadr crossover fron Velodyne? It looks to be quite powerful for figuring out what frequency and crossover slope works best with a given system. After figuring this out you could get the tweaky audiop... | |
| New David Gilmour record:any feedback? Heard parts of the album on NPR yesterday with commentary.Apparently he was not as affraid of sounding like Pink Floyd on this solo effort as he was in the past.From what I heard of the album, this is true.Not bad. | |
| Holy Crap What have I done? No offence, but if you have yet to play with the crossover, how do you know what it is able to do or not do?Be sure to bypass the subwoofers crossover so that you are not doubly attenuating the same frequencies (huge suck-out).You could also use i... | |
| Whole House Audio Not really.You can use a single amplifier like your MCA-20 to power quite a few speakers through something like a Niles MSA-10A. This is simple and effective.However, you will have to send the same source material to all of the speakers attached t... | |
| speaker efficiencey?? Starting point...? 92db?? Don't worry about getting "flat" in-room response. This is what makes audiophiles wear tinfoil hats and wait for "them" to come.The numbers in the on-screen display of your Yamaha are relative volume levels. THe numbers themselves mean nothing. Yo... | |
| Using an NAD AV receiver as a preamp? for now The T753 is teh first ste-up in the current line.It gives you a high degree of flexibility and doesn't cost a fortune. The "main-in/pre-out" feature for all six powered channels (and decoding for the sventh) will let you use it simply as a pre/pro... | |
| Whole House Audio If you do have CAT-5 run to a box in each zone the Niles distributed audio receivers w/keypads are powerful.2 AM/FM tuners, 30 or 60 watts per channel, macro enabled keypads, IR repeater enabled keypads available, and lots of flexibility.For some ... | |
| Blues recommendations anyone? As stated above there are LOTS of sub-genras in blues.I love the Lomax/Library of Congress recordings that were done on wax cylinders. Terrible sound quality but great music.Delta blues and Country blues are my speed.Early Chicago blues is great t... | |
| Differences between Parasound A23 and A21? If you don't need the extra power there is not a huge difference. The A21 does have a much larger power supply. If your speakers are bi-ampable and reasonably efficient you could use two A23's to bi-amp keeping one stereo amplifier for each channe... | |
| Static electricty - Can it damage audio gear Grounding straps for listeners... the final tweak. LOL.There was a preamp that had a grounding fault that caused it to absolutely self destruct after being zapped by static. I have an old NAD that I zap every day. It just causes a "pop" to go thro... | |
| Best Budget Rig sub $600 There are a pair of Kef Cresta's for sale on A'gon as well as an NAD C720BEE receiver. Nice combo that comes in under your budget.Just use cheap interconnects and speaker wire until you have a system that is resolving enough to notice.The JBl spea... | |
| Polite, Discreet Subwoofer Nsgarch is right about the ML subs.The Depth uses three 8 inch woofers.Moves lots of air efficeintly.Can be dialed in to suit even very small rooms.Good luck! | |
| Higher power=better sound at low volume? I like Albertporter's theory.Go to a hi-fi shop and take a resolving pair of bookshelf speakers.Set them up with three different amplifiers at about 50w, 100w, and 300w.Assuming they are all quality amplifiers there will be an appreciable differen... | |
| Best Amp Martin Logan Summit Have you considered a YBA? In your price range you have too many options to count. Demo, demo, demo. The Passion 600 should be a very go match.Good luck! | |
| Two Questions... Bose is lots of marketing and little in the way of performance.If you want speakers you can't see there are options.I'm getting ready to set up a buddy with all NHT SuperZero Xu's which are small wall/ceiling mount speakers that are white. They do... |