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Dedicated Circuits/Isolated Grounds
Jaffeassc, there is nothing wrong with installing isolated ground outlets in your setup. They cost a bit more and are not needed when the box is mounted to wood studs. You can use regular hospital grade outlets without an isolated ground and save ... 
Dedicated Circuits/Isolated Grounds
On a regular outlet the ground screw and pin are bonded to the mounting yolk on the outlet. An isolated ground outlet has the ground isolated from the mounting yolk. In buildings constructed with metal studs,metal outlet boxes are usually also use... 
Electrical issue
Call your power company and have them test the transformer and install a data recorder at your meter if the CATV and phone grounds are not the problem. CATV and phone must be connected to the same ground rod as the service grounding conductor. Mos... 
Anyone spend more on their system than their car?
No way 
Animal damage to system
After the cat wrecked my speaker cables, I temporarily replaced them with some other cables I had. This morning I discovered that the cat decided to wreck the surround speaker cables and the outside speaker cables too. The cat chewed them right at... 
Dipole surround speaker to match KEF 104.2?
I am using a $500 (new) pair of Definitive Technology BP-2X bipole rear speakers with KEF 101/2 for front L&R and the model 90 center. Sounds great even with SACD and DVD/A. 
Quick clarification
As far as I know you can only take advantage of the LFE if your DVD player has a 5.1 procesor built into it, or is connected to some type of 5.1 processor using a digital output. The LFE IS a dedicated discrete channel. It is called .1 because of ... 
cable directionality
I understand that sometimes the arrow indicates the direction the cable came off the cable machine and nothing else. 
Panny plasma Vs Comcast HDTV, HELP
Have you found out why the aspect control does not with the 2900? Does it work if the 2900 is set to interlaced? I wish my monitor aspect control defaulted to full, or did not work, when the DVD player is being used. I leave my aspect control on t... 
What happened to the loudness control?
Mabey we should all have 10 types of interconnects hanging on the wall ready to swap out for different recordings. This would be the purist way, but tone controls are so much easier. Tone contoles do degrade the signal but sometimes it just sounds... 
What happened to the loudness control?
I should have said a variable loudness filter controled by a knob and not a button. I dont like the button type loudness, but found the variable knob control usefull. 
What happened to the loudness control?
I should have said a variable loudness filter controled by a knob and not a button. I dont like the button typeloudness, but found the variable knob control usefull. 
Panny plasma Vs Comcast HDTV, HELP
Does your CATV box also have a aspect control? If it does,set it to full. Make sure its not set to 4:3. If it is set to 4:3 your TV might not display SD in a widescreen stretch mode regardless of the aspect setting on the TV. Make sure the screen ... 
6.1 addon?
From a 5.1 processor, connect the left and right surround outputs to a Pro Logic processor left and right input. Set it to Dolby 3 and use the left front,center,and right front outputs on the PL processor for the 3 or 4 side(surround) and back spe... 
LFE or L&R connections
When using the LFE input on a powered subwoofer is the internal crossover always bypassed using this input? Is this a design that all subwoofers share? If I want to use the crossover in my Receiver I should use the LFE connection. If I want to use...