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| Speaker recommendations If you're looking in the $1000 price range I think you're going to have to make a trade-off somewhere given all your criteria. All these speakers make decent bass, but whether it's enough for you in your room is impossible to say. Best would be fo... | |
| Speaker recommendations Don't know the Alons, and Vandys might not be the easiest to place to get them to do their thing and may not be as airy sounding as some others out there. Should be a great match with the McCormack though.Given your criteria the first thing that c... | |
| Good USED XLR Interconnect Choices for $300-$400? Tom,I'd submit the Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference (original version) as a very warm and musical interconnect. Tons of tonal color and image density with very refined highs.Ghstudio, it makes not one bit of difference what the recording studios use.... | |
| rotel rsp976 or rsp980 advice please Dolby processing is meant to decode Dolby surround encoded program material, so it is a real surround signal although the rear channels are mono rather than discrete. So when presented a Dolby surround signal the 980 should produce a dedicated cen... | |
| rotel rsp976 or rsp980 advice please Not sure what you mean, but yes the 980 outputs a dedicated center channel signal if it's fed one from the DVD player.Rather than switch to the 976 and use its DAC to process the audio signal, you might consider buying a good used outboard DAC tha... | |
| SS Power Amp upgrade If you're going to upgrade your speakers I'd do that first because that will in large part dictate what amp you choose. | |
| Bryston preamp/prepro X roads You could add the BP-26 to your existing setup driving the front left & right channels and continue to have the Arcam do the HT processing and drive the center and rears (you just need to set a reference volume level on the BP-26 for when you'... | |
| any science to mix and match speakers for HT? Have you tried just using your 1.5s without a center channel speaker and just adding surrounds? Unless you have people sitting well off axis to the sweet spot you may find you might not even need a center channel speaker and possibly avoid whole t... | |
| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? "...nobody remotely comes close to Pass Lab on Class A amplifiers. Otherwise there would have been well-informed and fairly objective challenges left and right."I'll submit Clayton Audio as a strong competitor to Pass Labs performance-wise, but th... | |
| I'm a Consumer Reports sort of guy. Is there a pla If you really care about sound reproduction then finding the "right" equipment for your tastes, music, room, etc. is by far the hardest task you'll face. My advice is to go find equipment that really rocks your world and then check into reliabilit... | |
| In wall surrounds. I wouldn't have thought of doing it myself, but a friend of mine had rear speakers built into the ceiling and it worked really well. The speakers were behind the listening area and the surround effects were very apparent yet diffuse and non-locali... | |
| Best power conditioning under 400 bucks Wow. After doing a little digging the AR1P seems really interesting. Would the wiremold strip (or any other power strip) offer isolation between outlets to prevent noise being transferred from my digital components to the rest of my system? | |
| Best power conditioning under 400 bucks Thanks for all the good suggestions. Looks like I've got a little homework to do here, but fun homework.I need at least four outlets and don't want to pay for another power strip to expand capacity, which somewhat rules out the Shunyata and Audien... | |
| Directional cable question I had a similar experience with my Apogee Wyde Eye digital cable. I unknowingly installed it backwards and my system suddenly sounded dull and lifeless. After checking connections I realized the mistake, and as soon as it was installed properly th... | |
| what speakers to purchase I had a nearly square room with wood floors and it was a bass nightmare. And although your cathedral ceilings will no doubt help, if you're contemplating large floorstanders I'd audition before buying. I agree with the post above that stand mounte... |