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| plauged by off center image, am I insane? There is no law to say that a soloist must be recorded equally in left and right channels, so that they image dead center. If your system images well it can put a sound source anywhere between the speakers, and sometimes outside them. The cure for... | |
| Which pre/pros have high output? Sdcampbell notes that most volume controls don't seem to do much for the last 1/2 turn or so. I too have noticed this. I think that the reason is that pots are being made with "linear" taper and with "log" taper, but the "audio" taper that we used... | |
| why no killer multichannel mods? This is due to the mistaken idea that the rear (surround) speakers are just for ambience, and the center is for movie dialog. I had my Underwood 2900 mod done for the three front channels only (on the basis of cost) but I think that the rears were... | |
| Stereophile test CD2 In/Out of Phase test:question Herman...see http://www.holistic-resonance.com/index2.html | |
| Which pre/pros have high output? Turning the NAD way up is good! Why would you want excess gain to be thrown away with a pot? | |
| Stereophile test CD2 In/Out of Phase test:question Tbg...France being screwed up needs no explanation. Australia is geographically inverted, so that explains them.By the way one could take issue with your presumption that the initial pressure disturbance is positive. How about a gong, or less obvi... | |
| Why do mass marketed CD's sound so crappy? Sean...Your rant about tonal balance of recordings is exactly the reason why you need at least tone controls and perhaps an equalizer in your playback system.Compression is not always as bad as you say. The most benign form of compression is "gain... | |
| How important is the Centre Speaker ? For music, where there is no screen to get in the way, the center front speaker is far and away the most important. This has been true from the earliest days of stereo sound, and did not have to wait for multichannel discs. For movies or TV I thin... | |
| Stereophile test CD2 In/Out of Phase test:question Tbg...Why do Yanks drive on the right side and Brits on the left? Here is a reasoned (non-arbitrary answer).1...In England, when people got around on horseback, it was customary, when meeting a traveler coming the other way to draw your sword. Hol... | |
| SA-CD/DVD-A? True, I don't see many SACD or DVDA in record stores, but who buys from record stores anyway? They never have much in the way of classical music on any media. Check out the web sources (such as elusivedisc.com or acousticsounds.com) and you will s... | |
| Stereophile test CD2 In/Out of Phase test:question Tbg..."Mismark"? JBL probably thinks they are right and the world is wrong. And this is ALL JBL drivers not just the ones I use (according to what I read). It is purely arbitrary anyway, and as Sean says you just connect wires accordingly. | |
| Stereophile test CD2 In/Out of Phase test:question Tbg... JBL LF drivers are also phased backwards from the rest of the world. I actually experienced this when wiring up some 15" JBL subwoofers together with some 12" subwoofer drivers of a different brand, and thought that I had screwed up the wir... | |
| Stereophile test CD2 In/Out of Phase test:question Tbg...Unless it is a JBL driver, which goes the opposite way. | |
| question on using my SPL meter Your quote indicates that there is no "right" answer. The ear's variable frequency response as a function of SPL is why preamps used to have "Loudness" controls. Nowadays you have to play with the tone controls, but they have become rare in modern... | |
| Review: H2o Audio Signature Monoblocks Muralman1...Yes, CarverPro uses the Tripath module. The Tripath people will tell you why their design is better, and the ICE folk will blow their horn. The only thing I know for sure is that the H2o costs more than three times as much and delivers... |