donbellphd
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| Why do intelligent people deny audio differences? The above thread shows why market pickings for the latest, greatest gizmo and twist remains good. There is so much hype and hand waving in consumer audio that it is difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. And many of the customers are rela... | |
| do I have to match the db level on all speakers? I don't know about your receiver, but if available, the distances from each speaker should be measured and entered, for coherent sound. White (or pink) noise is greatly preferable to a tone for setting speaker levels. I think there are DVDs and/or... | |
| Need Good Advice - Speaker Cable Dragon1952 & Larryb,If you can't listen to a passage as speaker cable is switched and identify which is which, your preferences are based on something other than your auditory experience. If you can reliably distinguish among the speaker cable... | |
| Need Good Advice - Speaker Cable Well, Dragon1952, forced-choice comparisons are a staple of scientific study of perceptual evaluations, as are double blind procedures. To do otherwise is simply unsupportable. You may dislike such protocals; they can challenge strongly held predi... | |
| Need Good Advice - Speaker Cable Are you guys kidding us? Could you really distinguish any of the above mentioned speaker cables in a double blind test from 12 - 14 AWG zip cord?db | |
| what center speaker to go with Kef 104.2 I replaced my 100C with a 200C for use with a pair of bi-wired 104/2s to good effect. My proceed pre-amp generates white noise for use when balancing speakers, and the quality of the sound is remarkably uniform across the three speakers. We prefer... | |
| Need help on center speaker to match with my front I substituted two KEF Reference 104/2 full range speakers for KEF Reference 102/2 monitors. The other speakers are a KEF 100C center channel, and a Velodyne HGS-10 sub, crossing over at 80Hz. I changed the crossover to 50 Hz. As expected, stereo i... | |
| Speaker toe-in & stereo imaging Thanks for the informative responses. I do not yet have the pair of 104/2s (they are being shipped), and have never heard these speakers. I bought the pair based on reviews I've read, and on experience with my four 102/2s and 100C. I really like t... | |
| Front projection or not? I've been mulling over the same question, and come to the conclusion that an ideal solution is certainly not in the $3K range: A flat panel display for regular TV viewing with a screen that can be lowed in front of that display for front projectio... |