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| Comparable products to the Velodyne SMS-1 The SMS-1 permits manual adjustments with the remote. AFAIK the PC connection is only to update software.db | |
| SMS-1 Questions Kal,I'm sure you and Marty are correct, but when I installed mine I just let it do what it did automatically. My plan was to get back and tweak it, but I have yet to do so, and my Velodyne HGS-15 sounds pretty good and seems to blend seamlessly wi... | |
| Subwoofers - Grille off or on? Stanwal,You seem to be overly defensive or are puffing yourself, because I didn't see a single post in the thread that questioned your experience in listening to speakers with or without grills. The complaint about the use of the term always refer... | |
| Dealing with a large TV between speakers From a 36 XBR to a 40" LCD to a 100" projection screen. Each step improved the depth of soundstage. Now I wonder if I should have a curtain to draw over the screen when I'm listening to music, because the screen is a large reflective area.db | |
| SMS-1 Questions Kal,I've always assumed DRC stands for Digital Room Correction. OP,it's been some time since I set up my SMS-1, but I think you can just let it run if you don't care to see what it's doing. Although I may have the display turned off, IIRC it does ... | |
| Blue ray and cd player combined? If you don't need analog output from the player, the plain Oppo BDP 83 is quite a bit less than the SE version, and said to be just as good in the digital domain.db | |
| Is 1080p via DirecTV I think Mrderrick must have meant 1080p, because I think all DirecTV HD is at least 1080i. I do know they advertise the availability of 1080p, and the picture quality is particularly spectacular for some programs projected on our 100" screen. The ... | |
| Tube vs. Solid State-Basic Question Most good quality amps specify output as RMS watts over a particular frequency range at particular distortion rates with all channels driven simultaneously. It used to be common for mass marketed AVRs to use a less stringent specification of watta... | |
| auralex bass traps I have no experience with them as such, so I can only generalize from the Auralex SubDudes which are amazingly effective. I think Auralex knows how to design acoustic products that address bass.db | |
| Has anyone had eperience with the new sony xa5400e Jonny,What the hell do you expect people to say if they are indeed satisfied with the 5400ES? In my system it replaced a very good sounding DVP-S9000ES; my only other comparison is an Esoteric SA-60 in my cousin's system. The 5400ES portrays timbr... | |
| Pre-Amp vs Processor A preamp that has a built-in DAC will have a digital input in addition to analog inputs, and it may look like a phono plug input.db | |
| Jazz at the Pawn Shop. Anyone know what Vol. ? I've heard an LP and an SACD of J@PS in succession. IMO the SACD delivers the sense of ambience as well as the LP, and both are great at portraying that sense. Funny, though, I never would have characterized the music as Dixieland. I'll listen to ... | |
| Sony XA5400ES vs XA9000ES Don C55 & Tryeti,Obviously you missed the sense of irony I was striving at in my posts. Of course I don't think weight is the determining factor in the sound quality of disc players, otherwise I wouldn't have a lightweight like the XA5400ES as... | |
| Sony XA5400ES vs XA9000ES In further pursuit of build quality it might be noted that according to Sony the mass of the SCD-1 is 58 pounds, 7 ounces, so in comparison the XA9000ES is a light weight, and one might predict the less than 23 pound XA5400ES to be a piece of crap... | |
| Sony XA5400ES vs XA9000ES I'm not sure whether you meant "no comparison" as hyperbole, Gandme, but according to Sony the mass of the XA9000ES is 35 pounds, 5 ounces, whereas the mass of the DVP-S9000ES is 27 pounds, 12 ounces, more than 6 pounds less. But the mass of the X... |