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    LFE and L/R

    in Technical/Restorations

    Posted

    I assume that is similar to the Denon setting of LFE+Main, which means that, when setting your mains to large, the bass that is supposed to be played by the mains is also going to be sent to the sub. therefore, you don't miss any low bass, but you also profit from the bass reproduction capabilities of your mains!

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    Dolby Digital 5.1 Ex?

    in Home Theater

    Posted

    I have read numerour reports on audio dropouts in several receivers with DVDs such as Pearl Harbour in DD EX. The problem was a software one, and replacement discs should have shipped since then, however I don't see why the studios would repeat the same mistake again...

    It had something to do with the EX "flag" not being read correctly by the receiver, but it was the fault of the encoding, not the hardware.

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    Marantz receivers...

    in Home Theater

    Posted

    Circle Surround basically does the same thing as Dolby Prologic II or DTS Neo:6. Apparently it works really well.

    The only thing I can say about Marantz receivers is that I've seen many reports of repeat failures on audioreview.com. Also, I've spoken to a previous Marantz owner and he told me he had problems with his units about three times...

    It's starting to get out of the coincidence or faulty batch realm in my opinion. I'd go with Denon or Harman/Kardon, especially if your use is primarily home theater. It also seems Marantz is more optimistic with their power ratings than other brands.

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    This message has been edited by Seb on 07-19-2002 at 09:41 AM

    my first home theatre!

    in Home Theater

    Posted

    your PS2 CAN output Dolby Digital and DTS, but you have to set it up for that. Look in your user's manual, and be sure NOT to have a game CD in the console when trying to access those advanced menus. Took me a while to figure out!

    SSX Tricky is awesome in DTS...

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    My dialouge with a Stereophile editor, real e-mail:

    in General Klipsch Info

    Posted

    Ears,

    yay!! you cut most of the dealer's markup... which leaves you with paying for the markups of the other components pf the marketing chain! I would be very curious to see even at 50% off what portion of you money goes to pay for marketing and pure profit, and what portion goes to pay for the materials and construction of the item...

    again, when you buy a TV, or a box of cereals, most of what you pay goes to buy the actaul product, with a small margin going to marketing and profit. because of the huge sums of money involved, manufacturers are still able to run profitable operations in most cases. not so with wires, or other high-profit items like fashion garments or "shop time" for cars (the mechanic is being paid 15$ on the 55$ you get charged for an hour of his time... the rest of the money goes in the owner's pockets, with money from the gas paying for the exploitation costs; plus there is an abut 50% markup on the price of parts).

    sure there's a difference, but is it worth the additional money. not in my opinion, but then again I'm not swimming around in a pool of money. maybe my perspective would change then. face it guys, this is the area of audio where we reach the point of diminishing returns to investment the quickest, and Lord knows how quickly it's reached on the rest! big-gauge standard-type wire will give you about 90% of the performance and 95% of the satisfaction for 1/100th of the price. I'd say that qualifies as a think-it-through "investment".

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    in General Klipsch Info

    Posted

    oh how I would like to be TheEars' habitual salesman...

    you are making people rich, Ears!

    the markup on Monster (or any other cable manufacturer) is HUGE. like, a lot more than the markup on anything else in audio, which is already huge. therefore, it prompts me to aks myself: how much of the money I pay towards Monster cable goes to cover the actual costs of making the wire (actual sound/quality benefits) vs. how much goes towards advertising, hype, and good plain ol' pocket money for the guys at Monster...

    I'm not saying there aren't benefits to using expensiver/high-quality speaker wire. I'm just debating whether those benefits are justified considering the HUGE premium you'll pay for them.

    when you buy a TV, you buy mostly a TV, you don't pay a lot for hype and marketing chain enrichment. when you buy cable, you buy mostly hype, the costs of making the cable are infinitely small compared to what it costs YOU. each time sombody buys Monster Sigma Whatever cable, the salesman, dealer, and Monster people are laughing all the way to the bank. there is no way the additional improvements of buying very expensive cable are worth the atrociously high additional premiums. and that goes for power bars, power cords, and all that stuff.

    bu hey, keep it to yourself guys, wouldn't want to kill one of the highest-profit industries around, would you?

    BTW, I have talked to a couple of sound designers/producers. They all, without exceptions, use big-gauge generic speaker wire. They spend a lot less on wiring than what most audio customers spend for their living-room systems. And yet some of the ones I've talked to produce very good sounding records.

    Big-gauge rules, high-end hyped-up cable... rules when you're on the correct side of the cash register. Which is not the majority's side.

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    Rsw 15 Power ? Was I Lied to?

    in Home Theater

    Posted

    klipguy should go get one of those 1000 watt Koss mini systems... surely it would perform better than a measly RSW-15...

    in today's audio world, watts are pretty damn close to meaningless. I'm still scratching my head trying to find out what trick Sony used to get their new DE-series receiver a 100W/channel(x7), 0.09%THD, from 20 to 20,000Hz power rating... starting to wonder wether they used PMPO as their standard!

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    This message has been edited by Seb on 07-05-2002 at 11:46 PM

    Should I Upgrade to Servo-15!

    in Home Theater

    Posted

    buy another PW-2200.

    you'll probably get better bass down low, and surely more impact in the upper ranges necessary for the type of music you listen to.

    I don't have the numbers, but last time I looked at it in detail, buying two PW-2200 made more sense than one Servo 15, unless you really cared about the distortion being lower, which it will be, but not by much at similar volumes.

    price/performance ratio is much better with a $660 PW-2200 than with the big servo. as a general rule anyways, I like the sound of two 12s over the sound of one 15"... here the equation is harder to make because of the servo mechanism, buit still. the Servo-15 is a good sub in its price range, the PW-2200 a GREAT sub in its price range.

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    RSW15 to SVS-CS Ultra

    in Home Theater

    Posted

    right on.

    klipsguy apparently doesn't really know what he's talking about.

    I have nothing agaisnt Def Tech, but comparing their 10" sub with the mighty RSW-15 is just plain stupid.

    don't worry klipsguy, this bulletin board is there for you to learn all the tricks of the trade. just wish you were a little more humble and sponge-like in your learning, instead of talking out of your hindmost quarters...

    :-)

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    In need of banana plugs!!!

    in Home Theater

    Posted

    btw, it won't sound better. if anything, banana plugs give you LESS sound quality than bare wire connections. of course, there's the practical issue. bananas are purely for practical reasons, if you wanted the best connection possible, you'd solder the bare wire to the speaker terminals. bananas, like any other connection, simply get in the way and add resistance to the signal path.

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    This message has been edited by Seb on 07-03-2002 at 09:13 PM

    I got the HSU VTF-3 subwoofer... my thoughts (The_Ears, lis ça!)

    in Home Theater

    Posted

    as I mentioned, isn't the phase control supposed to correct just that?

    and for that price, since you could get TWO PW-2200, which would most likely best the VTF-3, the price/performance ratio really doesn't look too good...

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