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Owning too many speakers
Man, reading this is cathartic...I thought it was just me. I had three pairs in the living room until a couple of weeks ago, now just one + the Europas in the home theatre. But I'm sure there will be more soon enough. And now I can tell my wife it... 
Is harmonic accuracy and timbre important at all?
I have lived for years with time-and-phase correct loudspeakers, but based on my listening experiences would not claim that time-and-phase correctness is of primary importance in recreating the perception of a live performance.So Duke, what then i... 
Behringer DEQ2496 HELP
With most speakers, you are better off not doing any boose ast 20Hz or 25Hz or perhaps even 33Hz. You will be asking your speakers and amp to do too much. At lower frequencies, stick mainly to cuts. 
Is harmonic accuracy and timbre important at all?
Jkalman--mixing monitors are not part of the signal chain. With amplified music, the microphones are generally capturing either unamplified sound (a vocalist or drum kit) or the sound directly off a crossoverless reinforcement device, such as a gu... 
Has anyone heard the Jeff Rowland Concerto Int
There is a much pricier Rowland amp (the3 302), so technically the 201 and 501 are the bottom of the line. It seems to me that people call them entry level either because the amps are lower-priced than Rowlands traditionally have been (call it the... 
Is harmonic accuracy and timbre important at all?
I agree with Plato that harmonic and timbral accuracy are not all there is to compelling music reproduction. I'm sure they are the most important aspects for many people, myself included, but not for everyone, and there's nothing wrong with that.M... 
Plinius 9200 or Gryphon Callisto 2200
Elberoth2, thank you for putting the comparison in the now-familiar Teejay Flavor Spectrum. More helpful to me as a starting point than just about anything else you could have said. 
Jeff Rowland with Rel sub
I had problems with REL and a Pass Labs X-150 and never could get a satisfactory answer. It worked, but not as it should have. Perhaps you are encountering the same kind of issue, but it's still not clear (1) how you are trying to connect the REL ... 
HIGH DEF DVD...WHATS THE LATEST NEWS?
I've not seen 1080p. While it is clear that 1080i from my STB is superior to what I get from DVD, the DVD picture is still stunning. Makes me wonder if PQ will really drive a format change, or is 1080p really that good?With a B/sR player, I should... 
Here's what I think about the new HD formats.
People will watch too much video and forget how to write and spell? 
Jeff Rowland with Rel sub
It doesn't work to connect the REL to the speaker terminals? What happens? 
Runco Plasmas - How are they different?
The big retailers also set up the displays right out of the box without any attempt to do a proper setup. Shockingly, even my local Sony Style store does this. What are they thinking? A specialty home theatre shop, such as whomever you are working... 
Zu Tone/Druid Tonal Anomalies
These things really need equal distance between speakers and listener, with extreme toe in pointed directly at the listener. Does this mean the Druids are decidedly a one-person speaker? 
amplifier comparison
Actually the Nuforce is an ICE based amp. I don't think so. 
New Acoustic Zen Adagio loudspeakers
Phil, you got a pair. Who's selling them?