rlwainwright
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| Popcorn Ceiling vs Smooth There are plenty of treatments that can be added to a ceiling to damp reflections. Google them to see. Also, a heavy carpert/pad on the floor will go a long way towards killing ceiling-floor reflections.The *best* way to go, but more expensive, is... | |
| New Pre Amp suggestions This Sherbourn PT-7030 is a very nice preprocessor - costs $999 and has a 5 year warranty:http://www.sherbourn.com/products/pt7030-RW- | |
| What might cause loss of sound in one speaker? Start at the speakers/speaker cables and work backwards. Swap the known-good working speaker/speaker cable with the bad one. If it doesn't work, you've found your culprit.If it does work, start working back thru the connection chain, swapping in k... | |
| What mid priced receiver sounds best? This 80 watts/ch. (discrete amps!!) 7.1 Sherbourn would seem to be a great choice for you:http://www.sherbourn.com/products/sr8100$549 and a 5-year warranty - pretty hard to beat that combo!-RW- | |
| CD Tweeks...Improve Ripped SQ? Wow, de-magnetizing a non-magnetic metal. How, exactly, does that work?-RW- | |
| Keep '09 MM or buy a new '13 MM What are you talking about?-RW- | |
| Starting a new dedicated HT I would recommend you look at the Emotiva line of electronics. You could get their UMC-200 preprocessor mated to their XPA-2 and XPA-5 Gen 2 amps and have a *killer* system for around $2500...www.emotiva.com-RW- | |
| Hypex NCore 1200 Here is a thread from an Emotiva Lounge member, Aluninati. He has built some of the finest cases I have ever seen. And that is to be expected since he is a very accomplished CNC mill operator.Everyone I've conversed with sings the praises of the n... | |
| Fried A-3 speakers Bud Fried always made very nice speakers. His transmission line bass is a thing of beauty. If you can get the speakers for about $300/pr. I'd say you got a pretty good deal...-RW- | |
| Speaker Cables For Big Horns & Tubes Sure. Use 12 gauge OFC cables. The cost should be about 50 cents a foot...-RW- | |
| External HD VS Flash Drive Sound Quality Question First of all, jitter is not caused by spinning discs, that is nonsense.Secondly, I prefer USB drives that have their own power supply. You are not subject to the noisy environment that is prevalent in most PCs. Also, an outboard power supply is pr... | |
| Speaker placement for brightness control. Most tweeters have much less vertical dispersion than horizontal dispersion. What you are hearing (not hearing?) is the fact that the tweeters' output is being attenuated because you have them higher than ear level.And, since it seems to be workin... | |
| Your Computer Based Transport Setup One thing I forgot to mention is that I am using a 4 year old Toshiba laptop (Satellite, A505-6980) which has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at 2.2 gHz. I am running Windows 7, the latest version.It has 8GB of RAM and a 500 GB drive built i... | |
| Your Computer Based Transport Setup I have almost 3TB of digital files housed on a Seagate 3TB USB drive, cost was about $120. I religiously back those up to 2 Seagate 1.5 TB drives. Cost on those was about $65 each.For backups, I'm using a very nice free program I found on SourceFo... | |
| Pioneer Elite BDP-33FD upgrade crashed my unit Well, Liz, my 3 year old Oppo BDP-93 has always worked like a champ. And I am glad to have Bluray playback capability in addition to all of the other disc formats the Oppo supports. And the firmware updates have quite painless to do.So don't conde... |