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| Subwoofer setting General rule is 1/2 or whole octave above the main speaker's -3dB point. Unfortunately, the spec you quote does not tell us that but, assuming 60Hz was the -3dB point, I would recommend 80 or 120Hz.Kal | |
| Room Equalizer Wizard for dummies Try Home Theater Shack's REW forum. Lots of help/experience even from the program developer.Kal | |
| New Bel Canto Gear at RMAF Just finished correcting the proofs. March issue.Kal | |
| 3 channel tube amp for home theater? "If I used a five channel amp, does the Home Theater Receiver get replaced with something like a Home Theater Preamp/Processor?" Yes, many with more coming next week at CES." If so, how do you output the proper signal voltage to the monoblocs from... | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? Good point about the Haas effect. One should also note that there is a lower limit to time interval needed for distinguishing direct from reflected/delayed signals. If the arrival interval is on the order of 5msec +/-, the signals are not distingu... | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? If you are trying to assess room acoustics based on system throughput, aiming the mic forward, or at any speaker, biases the results to the performance of that speaker. Pointing it upwards makes for the least biased results. Also, averaging more t... | |
| What should be my next upgrade? Speakers? "Those that don't mention cables can usually use better ones."Those that don't mention cables are probably paying attention to the items that have a much greater influence. Kal | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? The ceiling. | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? Bob wrote: "I take exception to those statements. The REW (Room EQ Wizard available at the Home Theater Shack) is sophisticated and does time domains. It is for FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE"Yes, yes, yes...................but REW is a measurement tool... | |
| How to diagnose the need for room treatment? Al wrote: "Particularly once you get above bass frequencies, tuning the room for flat frequency response using a test cd, microphone, etc., is not necessarily going to get you the best sound, and in fact probably won't. The microphone is not going... | |
| DSP / Analog Eq / room treatments You would have to route your music through the PC in order to have a "Any real time convolution program that can handle wav files with 32 bit floating point words can be used." Access should be digital to avoid redundant conversions. So, unless yo... | |
| Home Theater Upgrade Help - NHT/Lexicon "I would like a processor that has automatic room equalization using microphones." The only one of your options that will satisfy this criterion is 3.Kal | |
| Useful tweaks for Oppo 980/DTC 9.8 for MC-SACD Are you running the 980H via HDMI? If so, I doubt there are any useful tweaks. If not, you should.Kal | |
| who makes a decent center channel speaker? Well, I have yet to see/hear a Maggie center, other than those paired 20.1s, that is entirely successful.Kal | |
| Built in DSP = digital equalizer? A digital signal processor is just that. I takes in data processes/transforms it according to a program (usually firmware) and outputs the result. If the program is to work as an equalizer, it is an equalizer. If the program is to decode DolbyTrue... |