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The speaker is the same size as a La Scala, except 1 foot deeper. Here is the SPL chart for the speaker: I will have 4 of these operating at no more than 190 watts RMS, and they should fill the shop nicely. When I get it all done and equalized, I am going to record a video and post it.

Just getting ready to attach the side. This is a Bill Fitzmaurice Tuba Home Theater, aka THT.

Looks like a homemade AA crossover. Here is a Bob Crites homemade AA:

Is that amp 12v Dc and 4 ohm? Looks like a car amp. These speakers are likely 8 ohm. Another thing, if they are truly like La Scalas, its not about watts. They will run quite loudly on 40 watts. With horn loaded speakers like these, there is a point where the watts causes a lot of distortion. Keep it under 150 watts per speaker IMO. The speakers look like one of my pairs. The crossovers look too simple. Perhaps you can ask somebody like speakerfritz if he has any old LS xovers he will sell. Of course, you need to know about the speakers you are crossing over. Open the bottom and get the woofer info. The tweet should be held in by 3 screws. The horn should twist right off. If the speakers are good replicas, they would be keepers.Real La Scalas would be worth about 400 each like that. I'd say those are worth 400 for the pair. All that depends on the drivers, though.

Netflix no. Blockbuster and VuDu you can buy and stream, but not rent.

Holy cow, I just looked up the Dunlavy's, and a review back in 1998 had them at a list price of about $6,000! The Krell 200s listed for $7500! The MD20 $9000 list! The AR LS5 - $4500 Honestly, the guy has an investment of something like $27,000 in this equipment. I bet it is worth at least $5,000. If it were me, I would just offer him $2500 for everything as is.

This makes me think of what I will do next. I am 90% done building my first of 4 subs which will run nicely on 200 watts or less RMS. The Emotiva amps would drive them well. I was going to buy two Behringer A500 amps for $500, but now I am thinking about the Emotiva unit for $800. I am looking at these Emotiva 5 channel amps, and I am liking what I see. Thoughts?

I've heard good things about the Music Hall MMF-7.1. Turns out they are $1500, but they are still very good and come with a good stylus.

Agreed. I knew I read that somewhere, and it was driving me nuts! I didn't want you to think I was making it up.

Here is the information I was trying to remember. I found the document: LFE does not equal subwoofer Dolby Digital programs may include a bass-only LFE channel, but this channel does not correspond directly to a subwoofer output. It is possible for a program to contain an LFE channel, but a decoder may provide no subwoofer output because all of the bass information in the program, including the LFE channel, can be reproduced by the main speakers. The opposite is also true: it is possible for a program to not contain an LFE channel, yet a decoder may provide a subwoofer output because some or all of the main speakers are unable to reproduce the bass information in the program. The difference between the LFE channel and the subwoofer output is that the LFE channel is used to carry additional bass information in the Dolby Digital program while the subwoofer output represents how some or all of the bass information will be reproduced. This exerpt was taken from http://www.dolby.com/uploadedFiles/zz-_Shared_Assets/English_PDFs/Professional/38_LFE.pdf

Answering question 1: All the LFE (low frequency effects) are sent to the subwoofers unless you tell the pre you don't have a sub. LFE is sent to the other speakers if you say you don't have a sub. I believe the sub also gets what the speakers can't produce as defined by your settings here. You may be best off them as full or making the setting 40Hz or so. They can go to 35 and 36Hz at +/-3 dB, which is terrific. Your subs will then get all the LFE _and_ the regular channel sounds which you say the speakers can't do so well.

Great research! Thank you for clearing that up. Perhaps it was in the discussion of downsampling in the standard definition that the LFE was being sent to the available speakers. It could also be a way that manufacturers deal with the missing sub. Either way, it sounds like it would be a good standard. It does bring up the question, then, as to what happens to the frequencies on the normal channels that are below the defined high pass frequency of those channels. I suppose they get added to the LFE stream heading to the sub. What if you have different speakers in the surrounds than in the front? The fronts are let's say 45 Hz HPF, and the rears 100Hz HPF. What gets sent to the sub now? Is it below 45Hz frequencies, below 100 Hz frequencies, or a mixture, and how the heck is that faded? Or is this just an example of the idea that bass hass no direction or whatever.

I can't remember the exact document, but it was some sort of white paper on Dolby, and it was talking at first about twenty-some discreet channels that were possible. It was a long boring and confusing read. It was published by Dolby.

If I am not mistaken, LFE above the HPF rate of the speakers is sent to those speakers as well. LFE is shared on the system as a whole. I looked at the Dolby Digital specs, and that is what I think it was saying. For instance, if you set your La Scala at 50 Hz, and the LFE for the system at 110 Hz, then your La Scala will get LFE channel sounds between 50 and 110Hz. The sub will get all LFE below 110Hz. If you are listening in something other than Dolby Digital or DTS or other x.x, then there is not an LFE channel. The AVR, however makes use of the sub for frequencies which are below the LFE setting when playing in stereo or all channel stereo. Tell me if I am wrong about this, but this is how I understood it.

IMO, notebooks are cheap now. Consider buying a new one. Grab your My Documents, Desktop, email files (if you can find them), and basically surf through all your hard drive and look for stuff you might need. Copy these to an external drive, a share on the new notebook, or a thumbdrive. BSOD is sometimes software/OS related, but in my experience it is usually hardware related. If you installed a new driver that was asking a peice of hardware to do something it was never designed to do, it can cause that, but the fact that your computer is running halfassed on leenuxe, leads me to believe you are on the virge of some serious failure.

Read the article. It's not a rant about how bad 3D bites. It is about how theaters are using the 3D equipment to play 2D movies. It is eye opening.

Anthem is owned by Paradigm which is why the rep was pushing you toward Anthem. The Marantz will give a warmer sound than the Integra. All three companies make great products. Thanks everybody for the responses. N8G, I am honored to be your first post. I saw the Paradigm insignia on the Anthem site, and came to the same conclusion about ownership and incentives. Marantz is warmer than the Integra, but where does the Anthem stand? Anthem has a very high S/N ratio at 122dB, but is that allways a good thing, and is it trustworthy? Also, when the preamp you are looking at has a S/N of 105dB, does the 122 really have an effect, or is S/N cumulative?

This is an enlightening article. What ticks me off, is that there is even such thing as 3D. I challenge anybody to watch a 3D movie and its 2D counterpart displayed correctly using a 2D lense, and say they liked it better. 3D is for little kids, as it is nothing but a stunt. It is being pushed on the market instead of being asked for by the market. I'm ranting... Any way, read this article. http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2011/05/22/misuse_of_3_d_digital_lens_leaves_2_d_movies_in_the_dark/?page=full

http://cgi.ebay.com/SCOTT-299B-STEREO-INTEGRATED-TUBE-AMPLIFIER-AMP-299-/300565346687?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item45fb17397f The guy said he'd accept any reasonable offers. What do you all think it's worth?

Rockford Fosgate Soundlab? I sat in this breifly Tuesday. I lasted about 15 seconds. It was so damn loud, you could hear this van from accross a busy 8 lane road and across busy parking areas as though it was 50' away when its doors were shut. • 10,000 watts of power • (3) Power T1000-4 amplifiers • (3) Power T2500-1bd amplifiers • (4) Power T1652-S components • (12) Punch P3D215 15" subs • (1) 3Sixty.2 interactive processor • (2) IB-200 IBeam tactile transducers • Set to an LED light show, the experience will literally take your breath away -David Slepak

My shop is also cleaner than my kitchen. [+o(]

No protection needed here. These were rough...