eldartford
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| Living Stereo SACD's are a comin I ordered several. It will be interesting to compare the 3-channel mix, which we never had before, with the stereo. | |
| Diana Krall, Norah Jones, Jane Monheit....? Eva Cassidy, who tragically died so young. Acclaimed in Europe, and nearly unknown here. | |
| Freezer Cryoed Cables... The fact that the freezer works just as well as liquid nitrogen for Rpatrick, tends to support my belief that it's all in your head. | |
| Ten Percent Distortion? Twl....Maybe it's because I've been around so long that distortion is of interest to me. When I started out, harmonic and IM distortion in even the best amps were both over one percent. Technical improvements have made numbers on the order of a fe... | |
| Side speakers? I still think that the best 6-channel setup for audio is the 2+2+2 scheme from Europe. High and Low Fronts, and two in the rear. No LFE channel is needed. If you want a subwoofer (or two, or three) get an electronic crossover and drive the SW from... | |
| Ten Percent Distortion? Actually, I think that "10 percent distortion" would turn off even the most nonaudiophillic people. Everyone knows what "distortion" means, but plenty of audiophiles don't understand watts. | |
| DVD-A recording titles to die for As Jeffreybehr commented, 2-channel can probably be made your default through the Setup process. My Denon player, and perhaps others, let's you change this setting (but only for SACD) by a front panel button. | |
| Speaker Cables - Optimal Length Formerly respected engineers. | |
| Side speakers? Slappy...If the 6th channel, LFE, is being used for rear ambience, how do they do the exploding cars? All this stuff is very poorly explained. | |
| Speaker Cables - Optimal Length 12 inches, with each speaker driven by its own amp. The money you save on speaker wire will buy the second amp. | |
| Side speakers? I think that there really are just 5 discrete channels, 6 counting the LFE. The rears are matrix-derived from the surrounds. Is this correct? | |
| DVD-A recording titles to die for Mrlabguy...Why do you NEED to navigate menus when you play a DVD-A? I know you CAN do that if you are in the mood to experiment, but most of the time I just hit the PLAY button like any other recording. Others have made the same complaint, and I d... | |
| Adding subwoofer to Full-Ragne Speakers question Take the speaker grill off, and play a record with lots of bass, best of all an LP with a bit of a warp, and watch the antics of the woofer cone. I think you will agree that it is a wonder that the poor woofer reproduces midrange at all.Also, some... | |
| DVD-A recording titles to die for Lej1447...Lately I have not bought any discs as I do not have time to listen to the ones I have. I have both SACD and DVD-A, and a well-engineered disc of either kind outperforms CD. Almost all my discs are classical. A couple of exceptions are AI... | |
| I want to upgrade to a bi-amp setup. Don't bother using two amps unless you also use an electronic crossover. |