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I guess this wouldn't do you any good in Canada? Its only $229 + shipping. DiamondTron .25mm, 18" Viewable, 1600x1200@75Hz,Video Bandwidth 200MHz,OSD, Gross Weight:55lbs, 3 Years Warranty From Miradex. http://www.miradex.com/product.asp?m_cat=s_hardware&cat=monitor&action=show&id=915_monitor I think I'll try one.

People have always used flat black for that quick custom look. Marble finish anybody? http://www.learn2.com/07/0754/0754.asp A oz. of powdered brass mixed into a clear spar-vary, then antique with light green and white latex, even gold-leafing is old history.

Talk a line crap at the manager at the drugs store and GET THAT PRICE DOWN!!! Then buy the V2-400. You won't regret it. Show him the stateside prices of the old pros and free shipping ads, then bust his chops about the old obsolete product. Trust me, you'll love 'em.

If you are archiving from your own or borrowing cds to copy from, why not go loss-less and keep perfect copies to make mp3s from? http://www.monkeysaudio.com/ 100% exact copies at 40% to 60% space savings over wave files.

Would you be interested in a generic monitor with a 19" Diamondtron .25dp perfect flat tube for $229 + $38 UPS ground? http://www.miradex.com/product.asp?m_cat=s_hardware&cat=monitor&action=show&id=915_monitor And thats with a 3 year warrenty.

http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/reviews/boostaroo/boostaroo.html headphone booster

The AE can do A3D 1.0 by converting to ds3d, but can't deal with Quake's A3D 2.0. Thevortex site has a patch that lets the SQ deal with EAX 1.0 but not the EAX 2.0 But maybe the Quake people had reason to prefer A3D 2.0 and shun EAX?

Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 200 22" (20") DIAMONDTRON NF Truly Distortion-Free, Flat-Screen, Color 1800@72Hz, 0.24mm Uni-Pitch Technology Aperture Grille, OSD PnP TCO95 Diamondtron tube maybe better than trinitron tubes. $995 at pricewatch at Aberdeen.

Check this out. If you plug the lavender plug into the front pair and the green into the rear miniplug you can then use the surround knob to reduce the sound from the speakers beside your monitor to match the level of the speakers farther away.(the rear) Then the main will adjust both front and rear in proportion.

I thought you wanted info on Koss headphones? Read on, "BTW, if you cannot find Koss headphones where you live, you can always go to Radio Shack. The Pro-45s are the SportaPros, the Pro-35 are the titanium-coated model... actually, most of the Radio Shack headphones are made by Koss. You can check this by looking at the 1/8 plug in them; it will read "Koss"." http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000578.html

To all reports, if you have a decoder, you will be using it for all 5.1 surround. The quality of the D/A converters and having them out of the computer case, not using cpu cycles, etc... All your gaming surround,A3d,EAX,ds3d, Qsound, all depend on a 4 point speaker placement. This is the only reason to use the analog outputs from your soundcard, and that's only 4ch. So if you have the Panasonic decoder you won't be so impressed with 6ch analog. Any 4ch card can deal with ds3d and eax. But if you want A3d 2.0 for Quake you have to look a little harder. Having the Aureal sq2500, I use that a base line to compare cards. http://3dsoundsurge.com/reviews/SQ2500/sq2500.html If you bother to check specs and compare signal quality to cards costing 5 times the $20 price of this card, this old card is hard to beat. If I didn't have the sq2500 and weren't concerned about Quake and A3D 2.0 I would buy the Hoontech NX card for the Qsound at $39 or the XG card for the Wild Midi capability's at $49. Both of these cards have a s/pdif input inside on the board. That means you don't have to have a daughter board just for the s/pdif. Your 6ch cards only records stereo. DVDs with DTS sound also have AC3 and Dolby prologic stereo tracks. There are 2 levels of AC3 compression. Higher compression combines freqs above 10khz into one, the better quality compression combines the freqs above 14khz. DTS does not combine like AC3, but uses a larger bandwidth. Dolby has the rights to dolby prologic, dolby digital AC3, and DTS sewn up. They make everybody pay for each step-up in quality. You want the new 6.1 digital EX? Pay Dolby. Plan to use the Mpeg2-AAC? Back to Dolby. And you say Dolby is going to let Win-DVD decode DTS for free? I think Win-DVD will identify a DTS signal for pass-thru to a decoder. If you assume you're getting DTS while Win-DVD is decoding the AC3 track who are they to correct you? But if Win-DVD uses any Dolby without permission they'll be out of business.

Do you want to listen to AC3 and DTS audio? Then you will need a decoder. There is no software DTS. If you want surround gaming thats 4 point surround. Do you want to go into settings to switch between movies and games? With a decoder you just switch source on the remote. Has someone mentioned driver problems with the phillips?

Keep up with Radio Shack, every few months they sell their $39 headphones for $19. These are titanium dome, neomybsumthin magnets, ect... They have very good volume and strong bass even off my notebook's weak signal.

I thought ADS2000 had level control over each channel, separate. No? When you have the ADS2000 set for 4ch w/sub mixed down, does it shut-off the sub woofer jack? Info useful to people wanting to add an extra sub. You can set the volume off the center channel amp, then use the master volume of the ADS, or remote(can't give up the remote) For games you have to use the front & rear miniplugs from your sound card to the analog input of the ADS. S/Pdif does not do 4 point surround.

You would use the analog inputs and select 4ch no sub out. If your soundcard has a s/pdif out(coax or optic), it willmix the center ch into the front l+r as a "ghost" center.

The ADS2000 doesn't downmix the lfe into the surround(rear) channels. It does mix the lfe into the front 3 channels, or 2ch w/ghost center. That's why I mention ADS2000, the AD-300 may have the same design.

Some of these guys would say a y-splitter into both channels of the 2.1 works and others say 1 35 watt sat is enough for a center channel. I think the difference in price of the 4.1 @ 400 watts or the 2.1 @ 135 watts is a no brainer. The Quintet sat matches the 4.1's sats' appearance, and you can hide the swapmeet center channel amp out of sight. Then when you play games with 4ch eax or a3d you use the front and rear miniplug to analog inputs of the AD-300, and use your remote to switch between 4ch and s/pdif. As for the pops, I havn't had that prob with my v2-400's.

The pressure wave does that with the watervapor, high and cold. They wouldn't let me take pics, but setting concrete forms between the runways at Nellis AFB was a blast!! Lookin right up th' tubes.

Have any of you checked out 3dsoundsurge.com? Compare then choose. Turtle Beach has better distortion, Creative has all the bells, Phillips is the new guy on the block w/QMSS. Has anybody bought the Hoontech gear yet? You can trick out their cards for less than a bare Live.

There are no software DTS decoders. Only pass-thru. http://www.excelsis.com/vote/av/receivers/Techni4/ The way to go.

Why would try and make your own if you don't have a VOM? What ya gonna' do, make cables and not check for shorts? I'll give ya' $20 for the remains.

Is the ad-300 the same as the ads2000 but with a newer decoder chip? It may have the same limitations. One of those limitations is not mixing sub frequencies into the rear channels. You can do a search of this board for links to the review of the ads2000 for more details. I guess I have to tell you that the pros are set up to use a full range signal(the bass is not a separate jack), and has it's own crossover. Have you checked out the specs of the 2.1's? 2x35 for the sats? 1 cone sub w/65 watts? They can't swing with the 4's if they don't have the power, right? When you mentioned setting them up as 6.2 I thought you referred to the Dolby Digital-Surround EX, which is 6.1. If you have 2 sets of 4.1's you can do that and SDDS Surround when decoders are available. You can buy a Quint satellite from Amy and pull that old amp out for your center channel. If you use the ad-300's mixdown to 4ch feature you won't bother until the other formats hit the home market. Did you see TMH 10.2 Tomlinson Holman's latest multi-channel audio design. Theoretically discrete sound can now be placed in 12 separate channels allowing for a more "psychoacoustically efficient" means of audio reproduction. 3 sets.

http://dvd.ign.com/news/16684.html What do you think of the guy who proposes a 10.2? 3 sets of pros 4.1's w/ karoke. Make that duet karoke.

The ADS2000 doesn't decode DTS. It does not provide a full bass to the rear channels. The Panasonic SH-AC500D will give you DTS decoder and a couple of extra features. http://www.excelsis.com/vote/av/receivers/Techni4/ I think the last count on movie sound was the SDDS surround, a 7.2 set-up used in theatres. So if you're going to keep up with the formats, buy 2 sets of 4.1's. http://dvd.ign.com/news/16684.html Maybe that should be 3 sets.

This link is for the Sherewood system, thats the cd head unit, the dts decoder, and the 5ch power amp. Yes, thats all 3 units for way less than $300. http://www.ubid.com/actn/opn/4254616.asp If this auction is closed use the search box for dts. More daily.