eldartford
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| Center Channels sound crappy edesilver...When playing stereo source material it is true that if your speakers image well, and you can sit in the right place you can't tell if the center speaker is playing or not...even if you walk up to it and put your ear near it (at least w... | |
| Sutherland PHD Running a preamp on battery power is no big deal, and has been done for years...the circuits draw little power. The idea of using a signal-sensing automatic turn on also is not new...just about every subwoofer plate amplifier has this feature. Put... | |
| Do we break in our componets or do our componets ? An interesting idea...that it is our hearing that adapts to the audio system. Certainly this is true for eyesight, where serious defects in the visual system are ignored by the brain. The best example of this is the blind spot where the optic nerv... | |
| Center Channels sound crappy david berry...Today most people drive their center channel using a SS processor, which, as you say, involves digital processing. However, digital processing is not absolutely necessary. My optimum way of getting a center channel is to drive one ch... | |
| Another Time and Phase thread sean...As one who always was impressed by the full-range Walsh driver (and as an engineer, I found the theory ingenious) I wish that someone with the knowledge and experience that you have would undertake to produce these drivers. The labor-intens... | |
| Center Channels sound crappy For music you should definitely get a matching speaker for the center. (I speak from 30 years of center channel experience). Although good speakers will image so well that it is sometimes hard to tell if the center is working or not, having the ce... | |
| Does heat kill tubes? Sounds like the gas getter got the gas! | |
| Another Time and Phase thread On further thought...here is one explanation of why phase coherency matters.The original source of the sound may be larger than a point, but as the distance from the source to the listening location increases, the difference of distances between t... | |
| Another Time and Phase thread sean...While I very much agree with your opinion of Walsh drivers, and their phase coherency, I don't think that your statement "all sound eminates from a point source..." is correct. Even a small musical instrument like a violin radiates sound fr... | |
| which audio rack? Good grief! Here we go again. I think I will just dump the stuff on the floor, and listen to the music. | |
| Does heat kill tubes? Not operating can be hard on tubes because gas (that leaks through the glass) can accumulate. High temperature may speed up the gas accumulation. Operation of the tube cleans out gas.However 3 months is not that long, and 120 degrees is not that h... | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? How about three channel? This is something that I have done for about 30 years. The center front can just be an A+B mix, or even a speaker bridged across a stereo amp where one channel is operated out of phase (of course with corresponding reversa... | |
| Why 78rpm, 45rpm, and 33.3rpm? Shasta...Thanks for the very informative comment. | |
| AV Racks. What difference does it make? OK everyone...Question.... is there ANY idea that you would dismiss as being wrong without taking the time and trouble to try it out? (In other words "ridiculous" in your opinion).What if I told you that Side 1 of an LP sounds better when played d... | |
| Your ONE all time favorite love song? Joan Baez..."Plasir de l'amoir" (but my French spelling may be rotten). |