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a friend of mine gave me the same speakers (or similar) and i was tryin to experiment with surround sound stuff, but it didn't work cause my sound card couldn't do digital out AND analog out at the same time

the boston acoustics speakers all require a digitally encoded signal (similar to the signal used for single cord 5.1 systems). ya it's stupid for stereo, but that's how they were made...basically, there's nothing you can do to fix it unless you wanna drag around a digital decoder and find some way to power it. i think it'd be cheaper for you to just buy new speakers. (or a nice pair of headphones)

today i turned down the oppurtunity to get a good pair of RF-3 II's for only $500 im not too sad about it now, but i know that the next time i go to watch a movie on my dad's bose, i'll be crying oh well, i was wanting to get rf-7's anyway

it's klipsch yo...crank the crap out of it! let your ears decide when to tone things down

if the cheater plug works then i'd use it. you also might wanna check through your system and isolate what's causing the buzz (if the ground lift doesn't work). so if your sub doesn't hum when everything else is turned off, trace the circuit back and turn stuff on until you find the buzz.

i got my friend to purchase a set of them and after searching them over couldn't find anything to be considered a defect. As far as sound quality, it's exactly the same as a brand new set. i'd recommend saving the extra bucks and getting the refurbs (one difference though is the length of the warranty)

over in my neck of the internet we refer to these people as "chimps" ...humans that evolved backwards There really is no hope for these freaks of the internet so i wouldn't let it bother u too much. btw, how did a chimp get a hold of klipsch speakers!?! heck, i don't even own any...i wonder what that makes me compared to him!? anyways, was your pc hooked up to that system? i can't imagine how much more intense that would be compared to a pm4.1

are you positive that you can do that? i mean, don't you need special drivers for the xbox? monitors interact with the machine telling them what to do...it's not like rca cables that just try throwing a signal down the cable.

guess my stuff is just cheap then and i guess that's probably not your problem then mace i would still try ripping it open and playing with everything till it works.

i don't know the exact reason, but i have a lot of older cd playing stuff (old cd-roms and even some of the first cd players). everything made before 1994 was unable to play anything burned from a pc. i don't know if this had something to do with the fact that the music i was recording was converted from mp3 format or if pc cd writers don't burn very well. or maybe the encoding for cd playback changed slightly after 1994? i'd really like to know cause it's a fricken annoying thing that i've just been putting up with. as far as your denon...don't go throwing it away just yet. does it still open/close when you press the button? or is it only changing the display? u could try assisting the drawer while it's trying to open and close. to me it sounds like your denon is confused and ya gotta mechanically work it so that it gets back into the groove of things. i had a tape player once that did a similar thing...i ripped the door off to get the tape out (cause i had to have the tape in 5 minutes and had another tape player handy)...well it took a lot of coaxing to get that tape player back in workin condition. for some reason, it refused to believe there was no tape in it and was always tryin to rewind it all that to say, maybe it still thinks the cdr is in there. i'd try to press all sorts of levers and knobs till it starts working again (that's if you're not too worried about breaking it)

somewhere around $1,100 if i remember right

Carol of the Bells by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra...gotta love metal mixed with classical music! the first time i heard the song, i listened only to it for 4 days straight...heard it about 400 times and still wasn't sick of it! Revenge of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Figaro are good too.

can i propose an honest idea? i've read a lot about how people try to tweak this cable, use this setting, update this and that and i was wondering if it really was worth the trouble. "The source of jitter comes from our imperfect ability to convert the right notes into digital information that is aligned with itself in time in the same way the infinite information in an analog waveform is aligned with itself in time and our imperfect ability to convert the digital signal into a set of approximated values (notes) played at the right time in relation to each other. The right note played at the wrong time is the wrong note.... That is digital jitter." I would agree 100% and yet i wonder if we will really hear the difference. Granted we could compare a signal divided into 4 parts with one divided into a thousand parts and notice an obvious difference there. But there must be a point to where the speakers themeselves are the source of most error. When a person talks into a microphone, theoretically no added energy should be needed to make the speaker truly replicate the sound (the old 2 cups and a string thing). however, the speakers and amps that we're using now are pumping freakish loads of energy to "replicate" a person singing. To talk about something so delicate as the DACs and stuff makes me think of a football player attempting brain surgery. all that to say, it makes more sense to improve the raw designs and concepts versus tweaking the current "faulty" model. Granted, we're talking very small differences in quality and maybe huge differences in price. Or maybe im just wacked out...i dunno. has any1 ever actually 'unbiasly' heard a difference? btw, plz don't take this in any negative aspect...things like this can get touchy and i wanted to propose my honest thoughts.

fine then, i'll just incorporate myself and then it will be B2B so what stores carry the gtxp then? my local pc store sure doesn't.

you could always go out and buy a nice new grand piano and cut it up to make your speaker boxes kill two birds with one stone and take prefinished wood off the piano!

wow, fast reply! you must live on the forums no, i currently have the audigy (let's not go there), but i was under the impression that the gtxp wasn't for sale anymore (i've been to the website and the link to buy it is gone). if i can buy it somewhere else, i would do it in an instant (well, depends on the price) haha, as far as volume a single 2.1 would be way too much for me. i've been a good boy and have been saving my ears. i find that 100db is my threshold of pain. so why do i need more speakers, you might ask? well, it gives me something to play with and there's nothing wrong with knowing that you have the power to blow you eardrums through your brain. it's the same thing with cars, overkill is just more fun

thx yo, there's a sam goody within 30 minutes of me btw, what's the connections on the 2.1? single stereo miniplug? while we're at it...couldn't u theoretically combine two 5.1 systems to get a 10.1? the way i'm thinking is take a 5.1, and then add a speaker in between each speaker and give it a mixed signal using y-splitters. for example, for the speaker between the left and center channel, you could split the center and left channel into two signals, then combine those two signals into one signal that connects into that speaker in between? do this 5 times to add the extra 5 speakers. i know it's not true 10.1 but i was wondering if this is the same concept behind matrixing? or is there special stuff that a matrixed channel does? i know that if i had my sound board at home that i could easily accomplish a fake 10.1 system, but that's a bit out of the question considering the space issues when i drew out the circuitry for a hardwired set-up, i couldn't help but to think of all the crosstalk issues and how the soundcard/amps would handle the weirdness. i also thought about doing a fake parrallel set up where you connect the postive from the center channel to the positive of the middle speaker and then the same thing with the negative from the left speaker, but again something looked like it didn't work. and i don't got enough money to go spend a $1,000 to experiment besides how would i know if the 5.1 decided to poop out on me, thus misleading me to believe my idea wouldn't work

I was thinking about building a 7.2 system out of two pm4.1's. I was wondering two things though. Does the 4.1 have a seperate imput for the sub and how does the pm connect to the sound card (two stereo miniplugs?) You can get two refurbished 4.1's for $300 and a maya7.1 sound card for $70 which is like $400 for a 7.2 system. Or I could go out and buy a 5.1 system for $400 and have it break on me. I'd like to go with the 7.2, but I wasn't sure if it would be feasible with how it connects to the sound card. I'd even consider doing some minor rewiring, but that would just void the warranty and I'm not familiar with the durability of the 4.1 to just go out and void the warranty. so basically, i need one of you pm4.1 owners to tell me how your 4.1 connects to the sound card. Thanks!

speakers in a cabinet (like a real cabinet, not the speaker cabinet...ah, u know what i mean). that is so cool! the pic is cool too, but i like how you can close the doors to mute the sound when the phone rings

If you hear sound in your center channel when running the test, then your speakers are fine. For some reason, the audigy doesn't playback music through the center channel. As far as a center channel while playing games, it just depends on which game you are playing, but it should work for any DVD (or other movie type stuff recorded in 5.1) Ya it sucks, but that's how it is. Btw, how good is the Maya 7.1 sound card? I saw that it runs for only $70 and I was thinking that if you could return your audigy platinum then you could buy the maya 7.1 and a promedia 2.1 and get 7.2 surround instead of the 4.1 you're getting with the expensive platinum audigy. Here's a link to it: http://www.audiotrak.net/eng/maya71.html i've never listened to it, but the ppl in the sound card forum say it's good. anyways, as long as you stay with the audigy, you're not gonna get that center channel working. That's why i suggest the possibility of buying a different sound card.

You could also try some nail polish if your wife will let you. I've never tried it on good speakers, but it worked really well an old pair of lousy speakers that had dry rotted and were all torn apart.

i'll keep it simple, cause i know that's all you need to get your homework done government should have total control over everything (i just ain't gonna bother to support my opinion, unless u need it for the class)

1812 Overture...that's by far my most fave song. it's so easy to trash lower quality stuff with it. So far i've blown my old pc speakers, my car speakers, and a set of headphones with that song i'd hate to pay for the damage done to a bose system

just something to think about... we run a 50ft cable directly from the video out of the vcr into a projector towards the front of the room and we have no problems. then again, it's not s-video so i don't know if u will be able to notice a difference or not...i'm unable to detect a difference, but the projector is an old junky one anyway. we have another set up where we're running a 200ft video cord from a pc in the sound booth to a really nice projector in the back of the auditorium. the amp for this signal cost like $800! it did work without the booster, but the image shook and was outta proportion. 30ft is like 1/10th the distance and i think 1/10th the distortion wouldn't be that noticeable.

Wouldn't you need an amplifier between the sound card and the speaker, or does your sound card already have an amplifier built in?