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| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? Newbee mentioned Bob Carver . . . that he tried it and was initially impressed but found it distracting over time. | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? No one wants a strange disembodied image. The goal is to be transported to the venue. . . Yes this is very much affected by sound engineers and the way they mic and mix the music. This is why you will find that recordings made and mixed by a perso... | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? Hearing a live performance through speakers has always been the goal and what attracted me to the hobby when I first heard a high end system at the Sony Center in Berlin as a kid. I played second bassoon in the Wisconsin Youth Orchestra for awhile... | |
| How do SVS subwoofers compare to REL? Awesome. I’ve had to buy a PS audio P15 due to a lightening strike and it’s msde a big difference in the system. Just did room correction in my new place last week and the results are amazing. The dog is fooled regularly now that there are people,... | |
| A problem with AC Power you may not have considered. The car is a Kia Sorento. We only have 50k miles on it so hoping not too much damage was done. I was able to fix my Lumagen video processor as I saw that the damage from the lightning burned a trace on the output board and the sound still worked o... | |
| A problem with AC Power you may not have considered. My wife’s car was actually down the street at the stoplight and the pole was hit by lightening (same storm that hit my stuff). The EMP stopped the car in its tracks. It wouldn’t start for a few minutes and then fired right up and she was on her wa... | |
| How do SVS subwoofers compare to REL? Congrats. It’s such a reward when you can get things to mesh! Are you still liking the SVS? Had time to play with any room nodes? | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? Get four subs and use Room EQ Wizard (free) but extremely powerful, put those measurements into Multi-Sub Optimizer (free) amazing you can see the graph improving as the program creates filters, which crunches the numbers and builds the filters I ... | |
| A problem with AC Power you may not have considered. Great experimenting! In my first old apartment in Chicago that had steam heat I couldn’t even listen to my music through the electrical grid hiss or watch my projector because of the pulsing image. It was at that point I realized how important cle... | |
| Running Benchmark AHB2 in bridged mode and 4 Ohm Speaker I think you’d be hard pressed to find a better sounding amp period, much less for the money. I auditioned a number of amps through my dealer who had 20.1s in a show room with various amp configurations over the years including some uber expensive ... | |
| Mac Mini as a music server I love my Mac Mini as a server. . . I use JRiver as my backbone and take advantage of the optical out of the headphone jack directly into my Mini DSP. I opted for an older model 2.6GHz i7 Quad Core 16GB RAM and upgraded the drives to super quiet a... | |
| Power conditioner or outlet? easola01Yes any connection that creates a complete circuit path from an outlet through equipment to another outlet is a potential carrier of lightening. WiFi is fast enough to create a local area network so if your equipment doesn’t have WiFi buil... | |
| Power conditioner or outlet? I recently had my projector and video processor fried by an electrical strike because I had items plugged into their own outlets for all the reasons stated above. I’ve moved to an active lightening area with frequent brown outs and power surges wh... | |
| My first visit to AXPONA High end audio is similar to many extremes of any hobby or sport. There is always a place where price and performance meet. For us that price point is higher than people who don’t appreciate systems like ours. There is a point where doubling price... | |
| TV gives me a headache when its on; any suggestions? When I first bought a DLP Projector 20 years ago I plugged it in and the image drove me crazy. I could see the phase and I was so disappointed. I then realized the stereo was doing the same thing from the projector interference and eventually figu... |