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| Replace cable box with Tivo I have TiVo HR10-250 and DirecTV Plus HD DVRs. The picture quality on both look absolutely splendid. I'm skeptical about Larry's universal pronouncement, thinking his experience might be particular.db | |
| Best used DVD Player...Not interested in Blue R... Rapogee,I have both a Sony DVP-9000ES and a DVP-N9100ES. The 9100ES has HDMI and can convert DVDs to 1080i; the 9000ES has no such capability.Both are very good for CD/SACD playback as well, but I prefer digital CD with DAC processing by my Procee... | |
| Musicophilia - music & relationship to the brain Actually, Mrtennis, I find that I can multitask. So while on the computer I can listen to Pinnock's rendition of the Goldberg Variations and relish the fact that my system is able to capture the timbre of the harpsichord so well, right down to the... | |
| Musicophilia - music & relationship to the brain I agree with Newbee, and hope Mrtennis is exaggerating his listening experiences. From the posts on Audiogon, I might conclude that most audiophiles don't listen to music, rather they listen to systems. They talk about reproducing audio as a hobby... | |
| Has anyone ever tried two center channel speakers? Aren't most center speakers aimed to rediate up towards the listeners, obviating the need for an above screen speaker? | |
| Has anyone ever tried two center channel speakers? Years ago as part of a project we had with the Motion Picture Academy (or whatever it was called then) I was invited backstage at the theater where they screen for the awards. The speakers were setup to fire through the screen.At least Stewart mak... | |
| whoom instead of BOOM Redwoodgarden,Your post is confusing to me. Why would you define deep bass as 8 Hz, and not the 15-20 Hz available with a big sub? What does an infra integrator do? I presume shake you, because you sure as hell can't hear 8 Hz. What woofer will on... | |
| Why are LCDs more popular than plasma? Yeah, Soundqcar, that's was exactly I was talking about: universal conclusions from particular premises.db | |
| Why are LCDs more popular than plasma? Like most absolute universal statements, Stevecham and Soundqcar, overstate the case. Some plasmas do movies better than some LCD. I doubt either is qualified to make such absolute universal judgements. In my experinece, the advantages of plasma a... | |
| Why are LCDs more popular than plasma? Only a single poster mentioned the lower power consumption of LCDs v plasma. I find that distrubing. It suggests weening folks away from SUVs will not be easy either. We may not like dependance on middle east energy, but we ain't going to do a dam... | |
| whoom instead of BOOM My Velodyne HGS-15 is crossed at 80 Hz. It blends seamlessly with my KEF 104/2s, generates that subtle vibration you feel at a pipe organ recital when a big pipe is opened, and can make you feel pressure on your chest during explosions in certain ... | |
| a Power vs Volume Question Both loudnes and volume are perceptual terms correlated with acoustic level. The knob you twirl is a level adjuster. Not all amps have the same gain. For example, McIntosh, IIRC, rated their MC 60 at 60 watts RMS 20- 20 kHz with a .5 volt input, w... | |
| Stereophile - MF Supercharger article-add 550W/ch. Atmasphere,A good empiricist needs first assure an absence of artifacts in such a demonstration. The signal generator and transducer can be sources of spurious acoustics, especially with square waves. A fast scope can monitor a generator, but I do... | |
| Stereophile - MF Supercharger article-add 550W/ch. I haven't published in nor even looked at JASA for several decades, so I am far from current. But evolution of the human auditory system occurs very slowly, over thousands of years. You have to ask yourslef why human hearing, a system evolved for ... | |
| Stereophile - MF Supercharger article-add 550W/ch. Atmasphere,My previous post was intended mainly to pull the chain of the anlog folks, but it does have some rationale. My doctorate was in psychoacoustics, my post doc in binauaral processing, but how tubes mimic human hearing escapes me. I think ... |