drew_eckhardt
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| sub positioning.. Placement won't affect the sound stage as long as the sub is properly calibrated (use an SPL meter), you're using a low enough (< ~100Hz) cross-over frequency, the cross-over slope is steep enough (should be 24dB/octave low-pass), your sub-woof... | |
| Why does my system sound better?? 1. Placement has a _huge_ effect on what you hear. Inches matter. If you didn't mark your old speaker location with tape, match up the spike holes, etc. they're in a different location.2. Your hearing adjusts to consider what it hears on a regular... | |
| room setup Switching to front projection was the second best thing I've done for my two channel sound.A blanket on top of the TV would kill high-frequency reflections, which aren't a real problem because the speaker is more directional at those frequencies. ... | |
| TV VIEWING DISTANCE QUESTION About 1.5 screen widths is required to achieve an acceptable sense of immersion. This is no bigger than the subtended field of vision in the farthest seat from the screen within a decent THX certified commercial theater.I run a 9" CRT projector (n... | |
| Too much bass What are your room dimensions, speaker placement, and listening position?Sub-optimal placement could easily get you a 10X increase in bass power. Everything else is negligible compared to this. | |
| Permanently sealing a vented subwoofer?? >I certainly dont agree that a sealed accustic suspension is easier to pull off the a port, if so then why is every damn speaker at Best Buy and Wall-Mart, Sears and so on ported? re-think it man!A ported speaker gets you lower bass without usi... | |
| B&W Matrix 800 crossover freqenties?? Note that the electrical high and low-pass frequencies may not be symetrical, that the stated acoustic slopes include driver effects, and that the passive cross-over may include notch filters to tame driver resonances.Attempting to duplicate the c... | |
| When to use THX Mode? 1. THX is for all theatrical sound tracks. Without better processing (Lexicon Logic 7) it's a good choice. 2. You want to set your DVD player to "DTS"1. High frequencies are attenuated in a theatrical playback environment - perforated screens atte... | |
| Veiwing distance..... You might put your TV stand on casters so you can move it. | |
| Veiwing distance..... With DVD or better source materialIn the absence of objectionable projection artifacts 1.5 widths on a 16:9 screen is a nice compromise trading a good sense of immersion against loosing some sharpness on standard definition sources. Good transfers... | |
| DTS vs Dolby Digital? >My HK receiver forces DD unless I switch to an analog >connection.Your HK receiver plays whatever the source outputs.Nearly all DVD audio tracks are encoded with Dolby Digital.From the digital output, your DVD player can be configured to ou... | |
| DTS vs Dolby Digital? Dolby Digital is better because 1. Home Dolby Digital is the same format as theatrical Dolby Digital. Home DTS is a different animal. With Dolby Digital you're more likely to get an original sound track that hasn't been altered to trade realism fo... | |
| Which high-end receiver? Your equipment does not need to be located in the same room as your display. Apart from the DVD player you may not even loose any convenience since every front panel control is replicated on the remote and everything on the front panel display als... | |
| speaker excursion..."mo power"..and bass..Sean The clipping of a low wattage amplifier frying tweeters is a myth. A square wave is the sum of a sine wave plus all of its harmonics with amplitude 1/n. The third harmonic has barely 1/10th the power of the fundamental. Real world numbers are even... | |
| Objects Between Speakers Large things between the speakers can have a big effect on sound and imaging. Switching to front projection from a TV between my front speakers was one of the best things I've done. |