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I came across these on JBLs website:
http://www.harmanaudio.com/search_browse/product_detail.asp?urlMaterialNumber=K2.S9800WG
You don't see these at best buy now do ya.
I also saw a bunch of nice goodies on the japanese harmon site, including some 4312s they call a consumer home theater package, these appear to be much like the incredible 4311 studio monitors. I did not see any hartsfield but I did see some L88s on there. It's odd how the japanese market has a seemingly wider range of nice products than we have here in the states. Almost as if the speaker buying public in the U.S.A. is thought to be a bunch of suckers.
Peace, Josh
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"I would recommend using a coax cable for digital rather than using optical. Coax has higher bandwidth.
Think about this:
1) Optical - the electrical signal from the DVD is converted to optical so it can be transported to the receiver via the optical cable. Then in the receiver it is again converted from optical to electrical.
2) Coax caries the electrical signal straight away to the receiver."
Higher bandwidth???
Even if you are using a coax digital connection its still digital so it will still go through a DAC(digital to analog converter)to be converted from digital information(ones and zeros) into sound.
A coax cable is more susceptable to electromagnetic interference inside a crowded av rack than an optical cable in my opinion.
I currently use one of each type of digital connection on my Yamaha HTR-5540 and personally I can't tell a difference.
Peace, Josh
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Q-man,
I live in orlando.
How much are you thinking for your La scalas
I'm a student and thus on a budget but still very interested.
Ever since my dad and I visited John Albright and listened to his LS based HT I've wanted a pair.
Peace, Josh Brown
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playstation 2
Yeah I know but it certainly works.
And the ease of getting it to play foreign DVDs is an added bonus.
I currently have it set up with s-video and digital optical audio out.
I may switch to component video, but i don't know that it's worth it on my 14" toshiba.
You can also program it to auto select DTS over dolby digital or vice versa.
Did I mention it plays games.
Peace, Josh
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Definately on of my favorites is Maura O'Connell,
An irish singer with an absolutely stunning voice.
Check out her "Blue is the colour of hope" album.
She puts on an incredible live show, I've seen her twice and both times her vocals totally blew me away.
Tracy Nelson, Also another gifted vocalist from the blues-folk scene.
Peace, Josh
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Oh now I am really drooling.
You guys are sick, but thats my kind of sick.
I play electric Bass and the setup I use with my old Fender jazz bass is a Gallien Krueger 700RB bi-amp head plugged into a 2x10 cabinet.
I know this is a different type of amp but the 350 watts from the 700RB into the 2x10s is enough to shake every window in my parents house and be heard at the end of our driveway a few hundred feet away!!
I can't even begin to imagine how solid you guys systems must sound.
IMHO you can never have to much bass as long as your mids and highs can keep up.
Keep up the good work
Peace, Josh
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My little brother has a copy of kind of blue on cassette tape that someone gave him awhile back, the liner notes mention also the difference in pitch due to the speed on one of the tape machines being slightly off. This cassette version includes the alternate take of flamenco sketches, I also thought that there was another alternate take on this release but I could be mistaken.
I personally don't have a whole lot of faith in the so called 20 bit CDs due to the fact that once its on a CD it's still only 16 bit no matter what. The bit depth merely determines how many seperate amplitude or volume measurements we can have. 16 bit is 2 to the 16th or 65,536 different numbers to represent the amplitude of the analogue signal. The problem comes not so much in the bit depth of a CD but in the sample rate of 44.1kHz. There is a rule in digital audio called the Nyquist theorem. the Nyquist theorem states:
The Sample Rate must be at least two times the highest frequency recorded.
So the highest frequency available on a CD is 22.05kHz which is well beyond the range of human hearing. The problem is that recording that high a frequency we are recording only a triangle wave, not a rounded waveform, we basically have one sample point for the positive(compression)side of the waveform and one sample point for the negative(rarefaction) side of the waveform resulting in a harsh sound ,not very natural at all.
But the human range of hearing stops at 20kHz(if you've never listened to anything loud at all) its true, but the interaction of these high frequencies is noticable. This is where we get harmonic overtones and a sort of fullness. Whats even worse is this triangle wave distortion occurs as low as 16-17kHz, well within the range of most peoples hearing(the last time I checked I could hear 17.9kHz pretty easily).
This is why vinyl is better, a good TT setup can reproduce frequencies up to 40 or 50kHz I think.
One problem with vinyl being as soon as you play the record once you start to wear down those small high frequency ridges.
SACDs and DVD audio have much higher sample rates and bit depths than a standard CD, thus are supposed to sound more natural.
I'm Sorry if I seem to ramble(gets off of soapbox)
Peace, Josh
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Oh my word thats insane.
The old city manager for the movie theatre chain I used to work for had something like this.
Complete with stadium seating, a massive popcorn popper and a full size 35mm film projector.
Only they weren't his, he was "borrowing" them. Yep he ended up in jail.
Lol this is gorgeous.
Peace, Josh
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btw Justin,
My desk is big enough to put two cornwalls on it and still have room for my computer.
Maybe i should build a double decker desk
Peace, Josh
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Oops,
I wish I had the room ... and the money... but i just bought a pair of heresy's. The heresy really does have a fair amount of bass imho, the place i've heard them the most was at an outdoor concert back home. There were these concerts every friday night in this park downtown and one evening while i was wndering around i looked up and on the side of this lamp-post was a klipsch heresy in flat black. I stood there in awe, amazed at the sound that was coming out of this little(relatively speaking) speaker. The people in charge of the PA had screwed 2 of those red vinyl covered hooks into the top of the cabinet and hung it on the side of this post. For being in the open air with no wall of any sort behind it to reflect low frequencies it still sounded full and deep. that night a bluegrass band was playing and the seperate instruments were very discernable, no thanks to the sound man
Positioned properly in a smaller sized room the heresy should have plenty of low end.
Good luck on selling your Cornwalls.
It looks like you have a nice cat. I've got a cat back at my parents place, he's a sweet old fat thing but he hates music and thus hates our speakers.
Peace, Josh
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I have a ps2 which I do most of my gaming on these days.
I also had a dreamcast which I left with my little brother when I moved out to go to college.
When it comes to racing games I tend to like consoles, but for First person shooters my PC definately wins out. I don't know how many late nights i've spent playing Starsiege Tribes.
But now that i've moved out I really don't have that much time for gaming, I'm in school about 40 hours a week
so i'm pretty busy.Peace, Josh
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On a serious note, Buying something just because the guy who started the company is from the same ethnic background as you is not really a valid reason for a purchase. I'm sure there are better ways to show support for people of your ethnicity then buying a product which is not generally speaking high quality.
Thats my two cents.
Peace, Josh
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"Seriously the clarity in Bose compared to klipsch is like nite and day,"
The reason Bo$e may seem to have a clear sound is that they do not confuse the listeners ear with multiple frequencies, in other words the range of frequencies you would hear in music.
A good friend of mine has had a set of promedia for a few years and the only time his have not worked was when his cromagnon man of a roomate tripped over the wires leading to and from the sub, a few minutes well spent with a soldering iron and they were good as new.
The Bo$e systems some friends of mine own however have never worked. The most musical sound these Bo$e systems made was the squeaky noise the styrofoam packing made when they opened the box.
Interestingly enough the styrofoam they were packed in seemed to be the same material the speakers were made out of.
Seriously though I have had many friends tell me that the "high end expensive bose speakers are good stuff", these friends however have never heard a high end expensive system by Kipsch, Infiniti, JBL, Polk, or any other company for that matter.
Hopefully my scorn and invective towards bose will not be taken personally
Peace, Josh
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I don't have enough experience with dolby digital or dts to have noticed the difference yet. Do they both use a 44.1kHz pcm or are they different entirely. I have seen DD referred to as AC3. THX is not a sound format but a sound standard so unless you have a THX certified sound system as well as a THX certified room(rare in a house) you don't really have a "true" THX experience, although there may be improvements over a non THX version.
Peace, Josh
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The new athlons rock. Last fall i built a new comp to use for 3D animation and rendering(and games). This is what I got.
Motherboard: Tyan s2460
Cpu: 2x Athlon Mp 1600+
Power supply: Enermax 430 Watt
RAM: 768MB DDR pc2100
Hardrive: IBM 40GB
Video card: ATI radeon 8500 w/64MB DDR, dual monitor out, s-video out
Sound card: Sblive(used)
CD-ROM: Sony 52x
Zip: Iomega 250MB
Floppy: standard
OS: WinXP Pro
I ordered all of this along with an alienware style "hydraulic" case but when it came to my dismay the motherboard would not fit in the case, this was due to its larger size to accomodate 2 processors. I then ordered an antec sx series case and all was right with the world. I added in a CD-RW from my other comp as well as a promise ATA 66 controller so every IDE device is on its own controller. My little brother accidentally murdered my CD-RW one day with his knee so I have replaced it with a new ASUS 48x CD-RW
The only thing i really regret about this comp is the noise, your ears will thank you if you get quiet heat sinks. My heat sinks do the job but they sound like baby jetplanes under my desk. Why keep the sblive away from the new comp? I've never had trouble with either of mine. What OS will you be running? As mentioned the Liteon drives are a good buy, we got one at work this summer and its been great. I would also try and get one of the optical microsoft intellimouse models(you never know when those little goblins may come along and eat your mousepad),you can get a 2 button with wheel for about $20 last time I checked.
btw, maybe ms works was your problem
Peace, Josh
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If i'm hearing you right the cable you want has an 1/8 inch stereo plug on one end(like alot of headphones have) and two rca plugs on the other end. Look in your phone book for electronics supply stores, sometimes they will have premade cables as well as jacks and plugs to make your own. The two cables I currently use I got at radioshack so you may see if they could order you one.
Peace, Josh
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I have also been dissapointed in the quality of sound I have heard from the JBLs on the floor at Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. I Grew up listening to classical music on my dads JBL 4311 studio monitors which he got in the early seventies
I have 2 JBL L46s from 81-83(they are as old as I am) that i use for my stereo and they sound very balanced for a 2 way cabinet with an 8" woofer and (i think) a 3/4" tweeter.
they are very full with a nice smooth midrange and crisp highs.
However I recently moved them from a shelf on top of my desk at head level to the front of my apt on the floor, now they sound more bassy unless I turn up the volume aways to bring out the mids.
Listening to the Yes album "The Ladder" earlier today my (Concrete)walls started vibrating so I had to turn it down so I wouldn't annoy the neighbors. Because of this I have no plans of getting a sub anytime soon.
The heresy's I'm getting are going to take the jbl's places as my mains, hopefully the horns will give me the presence in the midrange at lower volume.
For now I'll have a "consumer grade" klipsch ksc-c1 for my center channel, although I would like to put something together built around an old K-55-V horn assembly for the center so it would match with the Heresy's.
But I digress.
JBL consumer products don't seem to keep up the way they used to. JBL calls their home speakers a studio series yet they are not the same as their real studio speakers. Back in the day they had a studio series and some home series, although the two were very simular, the L series being the home series i've heard the most about. An L100 for example being very like a 4311 (4412?).
Anyway I've said enough so I'll go now.
Peace,
surrounds for hornhounds
in Home Theater
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Reality sets in.
I think I'm gonna have to take a pass on this one.
Seeing as how my current income is in the form of student loans I don't have that kind of money laying around.
But still those speakers haunt my dreams.
How soon were you thinking of selling?
Its possible that I might be able to save up some dough over the next few months.
Ah the joys of being a student.
Peace, Josh