shadorne
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| Upgrade for TrueHD and 5.1= Better sound or worse? Also will buying $100 speakers for surrounds, center and sub a waste of money? Frankly yes. It kind of defeats the effort to get trueHD surround sound, which won't be all that different from regular Dolby Digital or DTS. I think you will be disap... | |
| Sub users... Did you consider a Wilson Watch Dog? Your speakers have a Q resonance bump around 80 Hz - you can see this on Soundstage measurement plots. This probably affects group delay also and the way the speaker integrates in the room. (speaker may resonat... | |
| Sub users... Bass frequencies are sent to both channels in 99.9% of mixes. Below around 100 Hz you cannot tell where a sub is anyway (if you can it is because leakage of higher frequencies - you can use a steeper filter in the case of a poor quality distorting... | |
| Best power conditioning under 400 bucks APC H15 is worth checking out - no bragging rights - it just does what it supposed to do. | |
| Subwoofer Crossover Setting/Directional Bass Freq. Nice post Bob! I agree completely. | |
| DVD movies must have Master and Commander | |
| what speakers to purchase In a near perfect cube and with plenty of reflective surfaces I'd be inclined to go for stand mount two ways and a sub (or two) - this may give you the most flexibility for positioning (such as speakers backed up against glass wall but not destroy... | |
| Wall made of CORK Thickness is what matters. If you can get a rough textured surface it may also help. I have a room with cork floors and it is actually quite bright sounding not much better than regular hard wood flooring (which is not good) - so a lot will depend... | |
| Acoustic Panel Mounting Questions Tough questions. Basically it doesn't matter that much - what matters most is thickness of trapping in order to achieve low frequency absorption.If you go overboard on thin panels then you can kill the life from the room by absorbing too much midr... | |
| Live infectious funk jams....quality recordings Yeah I have Roots and Grooves - Awesome stuff. | |
| Speaker Height - improved bass response. I am wondering if the baffle, rather than being a complete soffit, could be a large standalone baffle that surrounds the speaker to the floor and then 2 or 3 feet in all other directions. You can build half walls or 3/4 walls and they will still ... | |
| Dynaudio sub with C1's My concern is that as great as the Rel is it doesn't seem to match up with the Dyn line. Dynaudio make professional products. They make superb drivers. People probably think they cost way too much because one driver looks just like another. The r... | |
| Speaker Height - improved bass response. See also this interesting interview with Roy Allison about the "Allison Effect". I decided to find out what was going on with loudspeakers and room interaction. I'd had a hint of it while doing some papers at AR. There was an unexplained phenomeno... | |
| Dynaudio sub with C1's That should work fine. Dynaudio make superb speakers. Their waterfalls are superbly clean and free of resonance - you will indeed need a good sub. The C1 midrange is not quite as perfect as the C4 but given you listen nearfield so I think the C1 w... | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? BTW - it can indeed be subtle - lets suppose your CDP/DVD, cheap as it is, is working just fine (and why not - people rave about the Sony PS1!!) and say you use a good DAC then you would need to listen extremely carefully on a good system and good... |