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| Best surround speakers for music? Good but I was addressing Robertbrown. | |
| Best surround speakers for music? Bass management? Subwoofer? | |
| Two-channel is inferior to multi-channel, no? Rockitman:My test for multi channel versus two channel... What would the band playing live do ? I bet it's two channel ! Save the multi channel for movie soundtracks...I find this literally incomprehensible. The band plays. What does that have to ... | |
| Tweeter as my surround?? Feh. | |
| Tweeter as my surround?? While most people use smaller speakers for surrounds, the laws of physics still apply. So, if you want to expect any bass with any decent output levels, you cannot use just a tweeter or any minuscule speaker.Kal | |
| Current upgrades for meridian 800 v3 If you are looking for expert information on Meridian, you should look here: http://www.meridianunplugged.comKal | |
| How to hook up my meridian 800 v3 If it is 75ohm (or close) RCA/coax, it will work fine.Kal | |
| Best place to put a single subwoofer? Putting a sub in a corner, even if lifted off the floor, will result in maximal excitation of the major room modes. You will get maximum level output but it will be highly irregular and vary with listening position. This position is good only if y... | |
| How to hook up my meridian 800 v3 I guess so but I do not know what your "digital ref cable" is. | |
| How to hook up my meridian 800 v3 It depends on the configuration of the 800 as there were several options. Typically, the Smart-Link 2-channel downmix jack is active for such an application.Kal | |
| Why is 2 Channel better than multi-channel? Poprhetor asked: Is surround more akin to the headphone experience?Oh no! Headphones implode the soundstage imaging of standard stereo recordings by collapsing it into the space between the ears. From my perspective, headphone listening is on the ... | |
| Old vs. New Shadorne wrote: It just shows how gullible we all are. Only sometimes new is better.I agree but, to be clear, only sometimes old is better. Kal | |
| Old vs. New I do not want categorically dismiss quality vintage equipment but a significant part is bias based on long-term adaptation to old equipment.Kal | |
| Incorporating sub into my 2 channel / HT system Unfortunately, your Cary CAI-1 lacks preamp line-level outputs, so you have only one choice.Connect the second set of speaker output terminals of the Cary CAI-1 to a switch (DPDT on-off) and that switch to the the sub's speaker-level input termina... | |
| 7.1 versus 2 channel analog It's a little like Humpty-Dumpty. Even if you have the player send you stereo (with the other channels folded in), you cannot derive the original center channel post hoc. It really makes no sense to mix down to stereo if you are going to try to ex... |