sailfishben
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| Help me spend $5,000 on a 5.1 speaker system Somehow include the biggest VELODYNE Digital Drive subwoofer you can. Built in EQ for your room that adjusts automatically and really works. It will compliment and improve ANY speakers. | |
| Modify Oppo 980 or add External DAC? I see no good rationale to modify a cd/dvd player for better DAC. If you need a better DAC doesn't it make better sense to just add the DAC and use the player as a transport? Essentially that is what your then using the original player for. I just... | |
| Dedicated Lines & Power Conditioners This question still drives me crazy (and not because I don't like to see it posted either) as grounds and neutrals are all the same at the service entrance. I mean, in theory I understand why one would want a dedicated circuit and I actually have ... | |
| Subwoofer Choice Digital Drive (Velodyne DD) series are just fantastic. I run a DD-18, which I upgraded from a DD-12 only because I got one of those 'too good to pass up deals' on it. But the smaller one was too, absolutely amazing. The EQ function works and works... | |
| Receiver Recommendations For a McIntosh recommendation, you'd have to post again and ask about which ones. I just though because its for a great room this could be a display. I've always thought they look so cool, retro, no WAF problem etc.There is one place on the web th... | |
| What's wrong with Velodyne? Nothing. You can't pry the DD-18 out of my system - I won't let you. As stated above, every seller has an agenda. Credit Velodyne with not only great products but with a Business Model that makes their subwoofers available to buyers at all ends of... | |
| CD players/Transports/DACs Pretty much 2nd Jsadurni's take on your system. You have the DAC, get it re-tubed and serviced to like-new specs and use it.You didn't say which B&W's you have, but they generally love power. If you could ad a more powerful amp, they may just ... | |
| Receiver Recommendations How about a minty McIntosh receiver. Would make for a nice focal point in a room not to mention superb sonics. | |
| How many us a Line Conditioner with a Big SS Amp Maybe a tad offtopic but anyone with experience or an opinion on using a MIT Shotgun AC1 power cord with their big or bigger or biggest amps? I use one with a Citation 7.1 amp. However I really have never compared it to anything else. OH... GO GAT... | |
| Should I repair or replace Lexicon DC-1? Its old and with the newer procssing available I wouldn't put any money into it. Just my 2 cents worth.... | |
| Amp/Preamp, Dolby, and HDMI Advice Take a look at a Yamaha RX-v2700. It meets about all you state as needs. It will act as a networked player from your computer. It has 3 in 1 out HDMI and video upconvert for every other video signal input into it. Also accepts Ipod interface as we... | |
| Dedicated AC Lines?? Still, no one answered this question:"I guess I'm wondering if adding a dedicated line would really do anything. All of this 'noise' surely travels back through the breaker and onto the main bus bar in the panel right? Then right back out to all o... | |
| HT Receiver to 2-channel amp? You've got it right. A pair of i.c.'s from the Outlaw's outputs to the inputs of the amp, then hook up your speakers to the amp, calibrate the speakers test tone again and your done.I think the other thing you described was about using a pre-amp w... | |
| Dumb Question For one thing, not all that much comes out of the rears anyway. If you've a Sound Pressure Meter and have calibrated the test tone correctly, it will all be correct no matter what you hear or don't hear out of those speakers, the balance is correc... | |
| Playing Customs Games with Our Northern Neighbors Its amazing anyone would ask to have anything falsified on a transaction. I do know it happens and it has been asked of me too. I sure don't wish to be involved any anything illegal so somebody can save a buck.Good thread, perhaps enough will read... |