drew_eckhardt
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| Projection Screen How much light do you need to tolerate, what's the black level like on your projector, how much work are you willing to do, what size do you need, and how much are you willing to spend?In a darkened room, Stewart's Studiotek 130 with a deluxe (3" ... | |
| 11 Amps, 1 TV, 3 Components...1 Receptacle Help I ran the audio side of my home theater setup (2 Adcom 555ii amps for sub+center and Orion bass drivers in parallel (2.5 Ohm minimum impedance); 4 Adcom 555ii amps for Orion mid + tweeter; Lexicon processor; the usualy HTPC for DVD playback and an... | |
| Receiver vs. processer? Unless you have a huge room with speakers well (not just a few feet) you're likely to do better with a receiver with Audyssey equalization as a preamp even on two channel sources.Use your existing power amp to get more headroom than you would with... | |
| DVD picture too dark-Any Help >The picture is very dark even though i have cranked the brightness control to max. Any suggestions about which other controls to tweak.Note that the "brightness" control sets black level, the dimmest part of the picture.You probably want to ch... | |
| Your last speaker? Linkwitz Orion. Some day I might get around to adding the basket mounted midrange, rear tweeter, and Thors. | |
| Seeking Stereo/Home Theatre System Advice What are your speaker placement constraints? An installation allowing the speakers to be 4-6' off the front wall gives you a lot more options that will sound decent (especially without equalization) than if they have to be against the wall or in s... | |
| Speakers and depth... Get the speakers the greater of half their distance to you and 4' off the wall, don't sit much farther away than it takes for the drivers to properly integrate (7' from a line drawn through the tweeters with speakers positioned in an 8' equilatera... | |
| For the money, Best set up for HT and music What are your speaker and listener placement constraints? Stuffing a $30,000 speaker in corner when it's not designed to live there will yield $30 speaker frequency response.If it's just you sitting in the sweet spot of the middle of a couch, you ... | |
| Building through the mail??? What are your speaker and listener placement constraints (distance to front/rear and side walls, distance to speaker)? What's the room size? What are the acoustics like (lots of reflective surfaces, shelves stuffed with books, etc?)Speakers design... | |
| Do any speakers image/sound-stage close to walls? You want wave guides/horns, light weight speakers you can move into the room for serious listening (this generally conflicts with the need to be stiff; I like the fifteen pound Linkwitz Plutos which avoid the problem with cylindrical (sewer pipe) ... | |
| Do any speakers image/sound-stage close to walls? >Should distance of speaker from wall behind be measured as distance from back of speakers (more relevant for rear ported designs??) or front of speakers (for front ported or sealed designs??)?The front.An 11' long 100Hz wave coming from a conv... | |
| Near Full Range, Highly efficient Stand Monitors? Hoffman's iron law states that the efficiency of a system is proportional to its cabinet volume and inversely proportional to the cube of its cutoff frequency.If you could make a bookshelf speaker 95dB efficient at 60Hz, maintaining the same effic... | |
| Brother, can you spare some time for HT advice? One piece televisions aren't big enough to provide a cinematic sense of impact beyond the shortest seating distances, especially when you limit yourself to flat screens priced less than nice german cars.A 50" plasma is good out to 5-6' or 65" out ... | |
| Speakers that have wide horizontal dispersion >I need your advice on the best used speakers for a room that is 22 by 22 with a 14 foot cathedral ceiling. Primary listening is classical, jazz, vocal. I'd like advice on those speakers that have a wide horizontal dispersion so that someone do... | |
| 2 10" subs equals 1 12" or 15" sub? >A 12" sub is around 40% more surface area than a 10" and a 15" is just over 100% more or double. So more or less two 10's is sort of like one 15. Four 8" is like one 15". Six 6 inch woofers is like one 15".But only if they have the same motor.... |