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| How to get 2 Channel and Home theater in one packa I use a Proceed PAV/PDSD preamp/processor combination, but a AVP-2 would do as well. I use balanced outputs to Proceed 2 and 3 channel amps. For stereo, only the 2 channel amp is used to drive a pair of bi-wired KEF 104/2s with a Velodyne HGS-15. ... | |
| TV and/ or system rack between speakers... As Tobias suggests, mine is a combo 2-Channel/HT system. My current configuration is a Sony 36 XBR flanked by a pair of KEF 104/2s at 92" oc in a 14' wide room. Horizontal and vertical imaging seem excellent, but I sense a lack of depth. The face ... | |
| What is best to use for SACD GR,I suspect you would have no trouble if you used both analog and digital connections. I have a Sony S9000ES, and I use the digital output for CD, because the DACs in my Proceed processor are superior to those in the Sony, and the sound distinctl... | |
| Audiophiles and apartments: Oil and water? I've had very little experience with apartments, except for a short period during grad school. I've often wondered if those very large and expensive apartments with a view of the park are sound proofed. You often see photos of grand pianos in them... | |
| Your listening chair I use a classic Eames Lounge Chair, a rosewood base for both chair and ottoman covered with soft leather. Lushious superb comfort with negligable effect of acoustics. Unfortunately, rosewood is no longer available, so used chairs often sell for mo... | |
| Isolation for speakers on spikes So folks, do you put the spikes between the speaker and the slab or under the slab? I have a pair of KEF 104/2s on fairly heavy carpet, and I use 2" hardwood slabs below the speakers, because the front heavy design -- the mid-range and high-freque... | |
| 2-channel listening with a sub-woofer I use a Velodyne HGS-15 with a pair of KEF 104/2s. Frequencies below 80 Hz are shunted to the sub. Integration is seamless, and the KEFs sound more transparent and seem to generate a larger soundstage with the sub. And that subtle sense of vibrati... | |
| Dumb question about Speaker Positioning I've optimised the placement of my front LR speakers for stereo, and I have a center speaker and two surrounds lateral to our seating position. CD and SACD disks are played in stereo, most DVDs in 5.1. Frequencie below 80 Hz are shunted to a Velod... | |
| Playing dual layer SACD/CD disc on Sony DVP9000 ES Midareff,My Sony DVP S9000ES is an existance proof that it is supposed to play hybrid disks, because until recently it played the SACD layer of "Let It Bleed" and a number of other disks. It still recognizes the disk as SACD before reverting to CD... | |
| Sony SCD-1 owners - I/C and PC recommendations? Doesn't it seem a shame to mod such an iconic CD/SACD player? And is anyone really surprised that changing the power cord on a $5,000 unit has no effect? Wouldn't you have expected Sony to supply an adequate power cord?I am looking for an SCD-1. W... | |
| Sony SCD-1 or SCD-XA9000ES for stereo I do infact have some multi-channel disks that are based on DVD, but so far they seem more novelity than improvement in the music experience. I have not read nor understand why multi-channel CDs use multiple analog outputs with the corresponding c... | |
| Out of curiosity, where does everyone live? Montecito, CA, a small woodsy town adjacent to Santa Barbara that sits on a mile wide shelf between the mountains of the Los Padres Forest and the Pacific Ocean. Climate is ideal unless you like four seasons; it varies between spring and fall, i.e... | |
| Playing dual layer SACD/CD disc on Sony DVP9000 ES My DVP S9000 ES has gotten to the point that it would no longer play "Let It Bleed" in SACD mode, but will always play it in CD mode. It's first bit of acting up was to recognize it as a SACD, but refuse to play; most recently it recognizes it as ... | |
| KEF Reference 3 bi-wire or not? I have a pair of KEF Reference 104/2s that I have run in both bi-wire and jumped mode. Whatever difference there is is subtle, but I choose to use the bi-wire mode. When I have used them in jumped mode, it has been because the speaker leads were i... | |
| What happened to the loudness control? IIRC the old Fletcher-Munson curves were superceded decades ago by a study by Robinson and Dadson (spelling may be wrong) which provides more accurate correction for changes in hearing sensitivity at lower sound levels. Of course, these are data a... |