martykl
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| Help Wanted: 3.1 HT for Small Room John,I did a ton of subwoofer research over the last few years and concluded that Rythmik and SVS appeared to be top flight performers with reasonable price tags. Some of the following is based on my years with the Rythmiks, others based on publis... | |
| Help Wanted: 3.1 HT for Small Room Just to muddy the waters (this is A'gon, after all) a bit with temptation. The 73" Mitsubishi DLP runs $1400ish. Very good (tho not great) image, not for wall-mounting, and comes replete with a sorta glitchy power-up sequence, but 73" makes a stat... | |
| Help Wanted: 3.1 HT for Small Room John,Interesting task because the budget gets you right to the edge of some satisfying solutions:Assuming that you want a large, flat screen TV (55" or +), I would think that app. $1k is spoken for (last I looked).For $400, both Denon and Onkyo of... | |
| Not your everyday bookshelf speaker? A bit of clarification re: my post above.I think folks have identified some very good monitors here (specifically, I really like the Lipinskis), but....IME, the amplified Sonos Zone players always sound a bit tinny, regardless of how little they a... | |
| Not your everyday bookshelf speaker? You might want to take the line out from the Sonos and run the line level signal into a powered monitor. (This preserves the "hands off" automation of the Sonos, since these are usually signal sensing, auto-on devices). IME, this can be a high val... | |
| Sub Integration Question / Recommendation If I've read your post correctly, you probably got destructive interference at the measured frequency:Bass is omnidirectional, and reflections off nearby walls will (depending on phase relationships) either reinforce or cancel subsequent output fr... | |
| best "bookshelf" speakers for nearfield listening I understand that the Lipinski 707 was designed for console top (nearfield) use. I thought that they sounded very good when I heard them set up in that fashion. | |
| Youtube Music Videos. You Tube is great for performance videos. It's pretty much essential to me if only for the Tommy Emmanuel performance videos. A post from A'goner Dracule directed me to TE playing Mason Williams' "Classical Gas". I'd heard TE on recordings, but ha... | |
| Bill Frisell/John Lennon I understand John's reaction in that these interpretations de-emphsize the rhythms and the result has less r'n'r urgency. Sometimes the rhythms are picked up by fiddle - which I think works pretty well. At the end of the day, though, it's way that... | |
| specific need The Ohm Micro Walsh Tall ($1K/pr) or the Ohm 1000 (+/- $2K) might do the trick. These are tonally neutral, good mates for subwoofers, and (IMHO) their omni design makes for an unusually convincing presentation. You won't want to try for rock conce... | |
| Most forgiving high end speaker 10k-20k? As a long time fan of music that's poorly recorded (Todd Rundgren, anyone?), I've faced this question, too, and I think that this animal exists. I'd look for a gentle mid bass elevation and slowly, smoothly falling FR thru to the highest frequenci... | |
| Which Would You Choose? Mceljo,The Denon 4311 and the Onkyo 1009 both (IIRC) have Pro 32xt and check in at app. $1400 (from the web-based deep discounters) - app $200 more than the Marantz 6006 you list above. I just went thru this drill for my own account and would pers... | |
| Which Would You Choose? None of the above.....(emphatically so, if you are using subwoofers in your set-up).Audyssey Pro 32XT is --IMHO-- the dispositive difference maker among AVRs in this class. Integra, Denon and Onkyo all offer it, Marantz (as near as I can figure fr... | |
| Pioneer S-1EX Loudspeaker Never heard 'em, but if you're looking at these speakers, I recently happened to follow a bunch of links to this:http://www.audiophileliquidator.net/product_info.php?products_id=11427I can't say whether or not this makes the speaker a good deal, b... | |
| Live in your Detroit recordings... Bob Seger's "Live Bullet" (Cobo Hall, IIRC) is the one that quickly comes to mind. |