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| Building a house with dedicated stereo room-advice I'd recommend reading "Premium Home Theater" by Earl Geddes. Don't remember it going into electrical distribution per se, but at the very least it will give you a working knowledge of the basic concepts of and what it takes to build a room that so... | |
| What speakers match my system? $3,000 Budget Lots of speakers can match your system, but it would be helpful to know what aspects of sound are important to you and what you're looking to improve from what you have now. | |
| Starting small home theater, need advice Don't worry about asking questions here. We're all perfectly willing to spew our audio/video vomit for the most part. Monitors is kind of a shorthand way of writing that the speakers are relatively small and require stands, versus floorstanding sp... | |
| Monitors that play huge Congrats on the "owls." I'm sure they'll sound fantastic -- great speakers and a great company. | |
| Starting small home theater, need advice At this level I'd say minimize the cost on the receiver and put more of the dough in the speakers. Just make sure you get the features you need. I don't think preamp outs are necessary -- chances are if you're going to add higher quality amplifica... | |
| Rockport Mira not Mira 2 vs. Monitor Audio PL300 I don't think the Miras would be considered an outlier of Rockport's sound or design philosophy, although it seems clear the company is now using different drivers in their new models that may very well sound different from legacy models. Not sure... | |
| Monitor speakers that disappear:best image/staging I've found Joseph Audio to be consistenly good in the disappearing act category. Audio Physic does well in that area too, along with many of the others already mentioned.Haven't read all the other posts, but inert stands and sweating the details i... | |
| Rockport Mira not Mira 2 vs. Monitor Audio PL300 Don't you just hate it when the responses are so wishy washy? | |
| Monitors that play huge I'm all for form following function, but for my taste I don't think aesthetics and C1 belong in the same zip code much less the same paragraph. They do look a helluva lot better than the hideous C2 and C4, but I for one would not have them in my l... | |
| Looking to replace Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference I have several versions of Matrix Reference and Silver Reference ICs around, and in my system the Silver Refs are more revealing up top (i.e. more air and better-defined highs in general with more transient snap as well) without crossing over into... | |
| A Dac about two thousand used It would be helpful to know what you currently have and what sound characteristics are important to you and/or you would like to improve. Otherwise this is just shooting in the dark. | |
| Top monitors 3K - 6K range Joseph Audio Pulsars would be worth a listen. I'd think you could find a lightly used pair at the top of your price range. Best of luck. | |
| 10" sub.... 500 price barrier.... Not sure what you can get used, but if you'd prefer new these might be worth a look (not sure if you were looking for ported or sealed):http://www.svsound.com/subwoofers/sealed-box/sb-1000http://www.svsound.com/subwoofers/ported-box/pb-1000Persona... | |
| Seeking AV preamp for Emotiva XPR-5 A very technically astute friend of mine bought the Emotiva prepro about a year ago. He said setup was very user unfriendly, and he's already had a problem and had to send the unit back for a repair and would not purchase one again. Sounds to me l... | |
| McCormack DNA-1 Problem. Help, please Give Steve McCormack a call if you don't get an answer here. He was very helpful when I had a fuse issue some years back with my DNA-0.5 Rev. A. I'm wondering if starting in protect mode is normal for a DNA-1? Also, you should have your preamp tur... |