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| Can you adjust the phase between subs and mains? Yes. The phase shift adjustment is, afaik, centered on 80Hz, the nominal crossover but the phase change would be different below that. With a polarity inversion, everything would be 180deg changed.Kal | |
| Surround speakers options? Debatable. Kal | |
| How can you not have multichannel system Actually, there are some Tacet discs in which the performer locations do change from movement to movement. I cannot check which ones now because I am not where I keep them.Kal | |
| Can you adjust the phase between subs and mains? "I'm not sure how 180 degrees of phase differs from polarity.""Dumb question, but what's the difference? Don't they both insert a time delay?"Polarity is a simple inversion of the electrical signal across all frequencies and is either 0deg or 180d... | |
| Surround speakers options? Why do you want dipoles? Why not a pair of smaller DeVores?Kal | |
| Processor Help...Please "Only hassle is setting the volume to zero gain when you select the processor input."Not a hassle since most modern preamps have an HT bypass setting or input.Kal | |
| What processor? Depends on your video needs. The Cary will pass the video to your display just fine. However, for non-BluRay materials, i.e., DVD, TV, etc, many people prefer to have a video processor to enhance/optimize video performance. If you are one of these... | |
| Can you adjust the phase between subs and mains? Originally, I used a Paradigm X-30, later the SMS-1, on my Servo-15. The advantage of the latter is the visual display that makes the tweaking easy.Kal | |
| How can you not have multichannel system The Tacet discs have mic/player arrangements all over the map. They are extremely inventive and the audio perspective can vary from track to track. Many are marvelous (the Scherzo from the Mendelssohn Octet), some are thrilling (the opening of the... | |
| Can you help me select a pre/pro? It depends on the BluRay authoring. You should be able to choose the HD audio track, even in 2.0. Many of the BRDs I have (mostly opera and ballet, I must admit) have a lossless 2channel PCM track. OTOH, one can convert the 5.1 HD tracks to 2.0/2.... | |
| What processor? No. The Cary Cinema 11a will pull off the audio and output the video without further processing. Whether you need an external video processor (as provided with the Cinema 11v) will depend on your video needs. For example, I would not bother.Kal | |
| Can you help me select a pre/pro? As Skippybo has said, every pre/pro I know of will do a downmix from multichannels to 2.0 or 2.1 but you would be best off using the dedicated 2 channel tracks contained on almost every disc.Kal | |
| Processor Help...Please If you are really particular about your analog sources, you will want to use an analog preamp with an HT passthrough with any of the pre/pros so far suggested. That is the only way to retain analog purity while having access to the latest, necessa... | |
| Integra processors good? [quote]As far as features and to get you into a pre/pro, they are ok but the 2 channel sound(and thus HT sound) is very lean according to some. That is the tradeoff for all the video features. It just doesn't sound good, imo, as a preamp.[/quote]I... | |
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