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| Need help with Proceed PAV/PDSD The Proceed PAV/PDSD are built very well indeed. Do you think it's coincidence or causality that you upgraded the firmware to support 24/96 on the front left right channel then needed to replace the balanced output card for the front left right ch... | |
| Need help with Proceed PAV/PDSD I have used a PAV/PDSD pair for a number of years without incident. The PAV recently did have a power supply problem that was repaired locally. They also replaced a number of caps that were leaking, returning the unit to pristine sound. The PAV do... | |
| Best audiophile multichannel SACD player Nguyen357,To follow the logic of your post, you'd have to try every new component in your system. The last sentence of your post is inconsistent with that logic. That's probably not a practical suggestion; I'd guess few suppliers would let you try... | |
| problem with my velodyne HGS-12 Contact Velodyne. In my experience, they're very helpful.db | |
| CD players and HDMI If by CD player, Mitch includes those that play SACD, doesn't HDMI offer the advantage of direct digital output from SACD so you don't have to rely on the DAC in the player?db | |
| Does Wilson Sophia Sound good at low volumes? Newton,The decline in LF hearing sensitivity as level is reduced is usually portrayed by a set of hearing sensitivity curves published by Fletcher and Munson, of Bell Labs IIRC. Preamps and receivers with a knob or switch labeled "loudness" usuall... | |
| Altec Lansing A7's 50's model And so it goes. Enjoy your A-7s.db | |
| Projector Just revisited this thread. Mitch, I stand by my 7/20 post. I suspect your judgement of a high quality picture differs from mine, but perhaps the OP would be satisfied with your picture, which I suspect I would judge washed out and lacking in deta... | |
| Projector Mitch,You may have mislead OP with your bigger is better comment. It's not just a space consideration. It's the ability of a projector to throw an adequate picture on a large screen, an ability unlikely on a 150" screen for any projector even thou... | |
| It is all about the ‘Room’, thinks Toole. Judging from many of the posts on Audiogon, Shadorne, I think it's mostly a hobby about fools' gold, mysticism for the gullible. Toole's advice pretty much comports with what I knew about psychoacoustics when I was active in the field, but it's no... | |
| "Best" multichannel universal player right now? Of course, knee of the curve is a general term that refers to a break in a plotted function. In the case of a cost/value function, it's usually the point where cost rises faster than value, often much faster. I think the argument in these posts is... | |
| Altec Lansing A7's 50's model Learsfool,I am one of those people who used an A7-500 and MC 60 in my home, when I was a graduate student and the A-7s were being surplused. As I previously noted, hard to beat for the horns in the triumphal march of Aida, but not my choice for a ... | |
| Altec Lansing A7's 50's model Hey, Ginas, I'd take the comments of Spl and Learsfool with a grain of salt. Finesse and texture are not terms that come to mind as I recall the A7. One only has to consider their design aim and common application: Auditorium sound. You might like... | |
| Single vs Dual Subs Bob Reynolds,I refer you to pages 2, 22, and 28 of the Harmon paper re a single sub in a corner location. Of course that may not be ideal for every room and equalization is usually desirable for LF.I use a Velodyne SMS-1 with an HGS-15 located so ... | |
| Single vs Dual Subs Didn't this issue come up in a series of posts a short while ago? One of the posters cited the Harmon web site. Their expert advice based on psychoacoustic research differs from that given in these posts. Given that LF has little or no directional... |