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| What Does Holographic Sound Like? There is a way of using the six available channels of a DVDA or SACD which generates a real 3-dimensional sound field (as apposed to an imagined one) It is called 2 2 2. There are four front spealers, Left high, Left low, Right high, Right low, Le... | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? If I remember Carver's scheme...Your left ear hears the right speaker slightly delayed because your left ear is further from the right speaker. So, add to the left signal a delayed and inverted right signal to cancel out right speaker sound to the... | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? Remember Carver's "Holographic" preamp. It did some fancy processing of the two stereo signals and actually did yield an astonishing three dimensional sonic image. Only trouble was that your head needed to be in one certain location, and if you mo... | |
| Subwoofer Plug Dhl93449... For true AS the driver must be quite specialized, and completely useless in a ported enclosure.Just curious, but have you ever held in your hand a 10inch driver with free air resonance of 13 Hz? Such were in my KLH12 and KLH5 systems. ... | |
| Opinions on Magnepans sales/marketing approach to The idea of a company-owned demo facility is a good one. Back in the late 1950s AR had several such facilities, one in Harvard Square which I visited from time to time. Another was in Grand Central train station in NYC. You could listen while you ... | |
| New CD´s with errors, acording to dBpoweramp Of course all CDs have errors: what you see are too many errors for the error correction process to handle. Examine the disc closely and you may see the problem. Sometimes a good cleaning will make the disc play. | |
| Subwoofer Plug I am old enough to remember when AR came out with their first speaker, which was the AR1...just a woofer. Then they added a high end driver, and the AR2 was born. It blew away every other speaker on the market.Maybe it is time for acoustic suspens... | |
| 3 channel stereo music processor See my review of the Trinaural processor. Still the best I have heard.I have run a center channel for about 40 years for reason of room layout (like you). Much of that time I used a center channel derived in the same way as the rear channels in th... | |
| Subwoofer Plug Aewhistory... If you google "acoustic suspension" you will find good info.The acoustic suspension concept is to replace the mechanical springiness of a cone speaker with the springiness of air trapped in a closed enclosure. It requires a speaker w... | |
| Subwoofer Plug What you want is an "acoustic suspension" subwoofer. This is NOT the same as a "sealed" subwoofer, and even less a ported unit with the port pluged. | |
| Periodic replacement of Audio Grade Fuses? The life of incadessent light bulbs is a very well understood function. It is the applied voltage to the fifth power. At any given voltage level you can have a very bright light which burns out quickly,or a dim light that lasts a long time.Did you... | |
| Periodic replacement of Audio Grade Fuses? Remember that old TV program called "Candid Camera". In one episode they worked in an auto repair shop, and when customers came in for an oil change they "sold" a change of air in the tires. Surprising how many people bought into the idea. This fu... | |
| 3 identical fronts or dedicated CC If you listen critically to classical multichannel (DVDA or SACD) you need five (count em) identical speakers.If you watch movies the center speaker should be optimized for dialog, which means far-from-flat frequency response.Most of the stereo si... | |
| Speakers sound best facing wall???? I have been quite amazed by the ecellent imaging delivered by the Bose 901s that I have in my swimming pool room. They reside amid a jungle of plants. It ain't supposed to work, but it does. | |
| size of the driver By the way, if you listen to rock concert music, nothing beats big boxes with high efficiency 15 or 18 inch drivers, for the simple reason that these are exactly what you hear at the concert. Horn mids and tweeters also. IMHO, horible, but accurate. |