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| HT pre-amp/proccessor advise. Possibly Audio Refinement Pre-5 (no processing or video switching) with an ICBM. | |
| Home Theatre in-ceiling speakers? Kef has some motorized speakers that flip down that are quite nice.NHT has some with three tweeter arrays that are good at dispersing sound over a wide area.Von Schweikert has some whit surface mounted speakers that can be mounted on ceilings. THe... | |
| Tuner for Jolida 502B If you can find an Accuphase T-100 you will experiance FM nirvana. It is not digital so you will have to spin the knob to change stations but when you get locked onto a good station (do these exist any more?) you will be very happy.Good luck! | |
| NYC anyone here offer Plasma calibration Pioneer ISF is the company that certifies the guys who do the calibrations.http://www.imagingscience.com/isf_search.cfmGood luck! | |
| Why do new cables needs to be "broken" ??? It takes that long for the electrons to learn how to read the arrows through the jacket of the cable. Before they become literate those little buggers are running around so confused that Ringo is playing a guitar center stage and Paul is singing b... | |
| re: Jolida 801A-transformer- question If you try to contact Jolida directly you may get more than just an answer. The guys up there are really helpful and honest to a fault. Every time I have called with a question we have spent at least a half hour talking about anything from design ... | |
| a great take on big$ cables At least 90% of that article is true. I have heard high $$$ cables that sounded terrible (but did make a difference). That being said, I have yet to hear a cable that made such a marked improvement as to warrant spending similar $$$ for the margin... | |
| Preferences in the Spendor Se speaker series? S6e or S8e. Spendor does two way designs better than three way. The S8 is a really wonderful speaker.Good luck! | |
| Is Martin Logan goin to Big Box stores? The new cheap line of ML products is well represented in Tweeter and Magnolia. The line sucks but has the ML logo and fits nicely on the wall. On a store-by-store basis some are able to carry the higher end products. While some individual stores d... | |
| Receiver Upgrade - Denon vs. Rotel The 333 and 444 from Sony were very good units for what it's worth. Your 444 is probably better than the Denon (better amplifier). If I recall the 444 had pre outs. You could audition several different power amps at home and find the best fit for ... | |
| Plasma owners any problems?? Most manufacturers have an "acceptable" number of pixels that can be dead straight out of the box. I think that Sony, for instance, will allow up to three dead pixels before they will even consider doing something about it. End-of-model close-out ... | |
| Room size for ML Prodigy ? The Summits are much more dynamic than the Prodigy's. the Prodigy's bi-amped should give you 90% of the "slam" of the Summits but with a little more in the way of deffinition. The Prodigy's need the space to operate though. In a small room the Asc... | |
| OK to use Bi-wire cable for single post speaker??? As long as there is only one amplifier on the other end it won't matter. If you use both sets of wire you will double (depending on exactly what was run behind the wall) the AWG of teh wire (better deffinition in the bass). Take off the wallplates... | |
| Faith-Based Sonicrock............................. I'm sending back my jars of little rocks today. These Sonicrocks are much bigger. They improved the psychoacustics of my listening room by at least eleven.:) | |
| 7 ch Preamp question If you visit the DD-EX or DTS-ES websites you can find information on every movie release that has been encoded in those formats. There are a handfull (mainly action movies, though Punch Drunk Love was too) that are encoded.Tangent-7.1 is complete... |