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| EQ's... why doesnt everybody have one? Eldartford wrote: "Kal...Maybe it ain't perfect, but the $300 Behringer DEQ2496 does a job which needs to be heard to be believed. Really!"I do not doubt it. I have used the Rives PARC and the Audyssey and the Velodyne SMS-1 and all of them were v... | |
| EQ's... why doesnt everybody have one? "This $200 piece of equiptment ($100 on sale at musiciansfriend.com) replaces several thousand dollars in assembling a perfectly linear system in perfectly linear room, and in my opinion, accomplishes the task better than any room design could no ... | |
| Anybody heard of a Marantz PH22 phono stage? AFAIK, they were all solid-state.Kal | |
| Which 5.1 ch Pre? The best deal is, still, a used Sony P9000ES but they are hard to find. AFAIK, YBA has discontinued the AR line, so the Pre-5 supply will be or is drying up now.Kal | |
| Anybody heard of a Marantz PH22 phono stage? Yes, I recall them and they were generally highly regarded at the time. IIRC, Ken Kessler reviewed some of the series (amps, at least) for HFN&RR.Kal | |
| speaker distance settings effect on soundstaging It should only be a time delay to account for the distance. However, what you may be hearing is the difference between no delay processing and added delay. Kal | |
| Subwoofers that do both L/R & LFE simultaneously? Why not get an Outlaw ICBM? It lets you combine and balance LFE and managed bass from any/all channels with any sub.Kal | |
| putting speaker vertical or horizontal? Would they image? Possibly or we would not have stereo, would we? OTOH, that is with slightly different signals. If you compare a mono signal over the pair with a mono signal over a single centered driver, you can hear the difference in terms of i... | |
| Power conditioners PureAV is a line of products which, of course, have varying features and capabilities. Which model are you referring to and what AC problems do you need to deal with?Kal | |
| putting speaker vertical or horizontal? Horizontally-arrayed drivers which are farther from each other than 1/2 wavelength, based on frequencies which both play (for example, at crossover), will result in a pattern of cancellations and reinforcements in the horizontal plane. This result... | |
| Rank Stereophile, & why no Von Schweikert reviews "Btw. Don't manufacturers get an advanced copy of the review (from some print or online review mags) and when it's a bash, they can decide whether to pull the review or not?"At Stereophile, they get an advanced copy to which they may respond with ... | |
| Rank Stereophile, & why no Von Schweikert reviews "Do the reviewers actually go out after ANY of these components they're writing about, or do they all come to the reviewer, or show up at some show the reviewer attended?"Yes, we do go after some and sometimes succeed."There are reviewers reading ... | |
| A buzz in my speakers-Ideas??? Before spending money, the usual culprit is the cable or satellite input. Try running everything as you would like to (no conditioner, separate lines) but with the satellite input and power completely disconnected (from AC, pre/pro and display). I... | |
| Hum when cablevision is plugged in to tv This approach works to block the DC offset but it does not eliminate it. Get the cable company to fix the ground.Kal | |
| Sim audio cd players any comments ? Dbld wrote: "Kal, funny that's what Simaudio said! I don't share that point of view though."Hah! I actually forgot about this until this weekend. After 3-4 months with a Denon receiver and player, I reinstalled the 'regular' stuff and realized tha... |