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| Floorstanders over Suspended Hardwood-Help Please Forget tiles or glass, etc. They are flimsy and breakable, with a relatively high resonant frequency. Get some corian (the stuff they make kitchen counters with). It's a resin product, very heavy and non-resonant. You can find it cheap at flea mar... | |
| Have Runco Cinemapro 750 What Line doublers? HI,There are a lot of doublers and video processing units out there. You can go with something as economical as an iScan Ultra for around $1,000.00, to the megabuck stuff from Faroudja. (I can't afford the Faroudja stuff, and theiScan Ultra does a... | |
| Martin Logan CLS panel distortion Those speakers can really drop in impedance at certain frequencies. So, like others have said - check your amp. You may want to check with Martin Logan to see where those dips occur,(if you don't knwo already) and see if that's where your problem is. | |
| No longer sitting on the fence From what I've heard, all of the Capitoles that came out this year are excellent, and very reliable. I called the distributor and asked them about this stuff. Regarding the players from last year, and all of the chip replacments, there were a few ... | |
| Wilson Benesch Discovery's I think I saw a review for those at Soundstage.com recently. If you haven't seen it already, check it out. That speaker has down-firing isobaric bass, so it might be less room-sensitive than rear-ported speakers. | |
| Are Dealer Recommendations Useful or Useless? Bigkidz, Did you actually go into each store, or were you doing this by e.mail or phone? Your comment about just a "quick note back" from them leads me to suspect that you were doing this by e.mail. If that is how you approached your research, you... | |
| Wilson Benesch Chimera There are lots of reviews for other Wilson Benesch products on their website. That will give you an idea of how they are regarded around the world. The Discovery and Act I have received excellent reviews in TAS and Soundstage.Stereophile had a cou... | |
| Best one box CDP, Got it short listed to Four Go listen to them...the players themselves that is, not the subjective comments from people who have not heard all of them. | |
| HE expo in SF this past week end...what was hot Hi Muralman, A darkened room is not practical? Oh, I'm sorry, that word is not relevant in the HT/projection world. :-) If you want to leave lights on, you get a rear projection TV, or spend huge bucks on a top-of-the-line CRT, DMD or DLP. If you ... | |
| HE expo in SF this past week end...what was hot Just to add to my last post...I just checked Show coverage on the 'Net to find out who Clearaudio was exhibiting with. I couldn't remember the speakers...it was Avalon - no surprise there that the sound was good. I was disappointed with the Meadow... | |
| HE expo in SF this past week end...what was hot That's not the first time that Sony has shot themselves in the foot. They acquire some decent speakers to use with one of their better SACD players, then they screw it up by running the signal through one of their crappy receivers!! (and bad cable... | |
| Any comments about the JMLab Mezzo Utopia? Ya, what he said! | |
| Capitole MKII Phase controller ..0 or 180 ?.. Hey Unc!I don't know if you're confused about the abilities of the Cap II, or about phase inversion....?Simply put, phase inversion is occurring when your speaker drivers are operating in reverse. They pull in first, then push out the sound, inste... | |
| Capitole MKII Phase controller ..0 or 180 ?.. Some people have preamps or amps that invert phase. So, they would have to invert phase on the CD player to compensate for that. As already mentioned, some CDs are recorded improperly or mastered improperly with inverted phase.It's usually easier ... | |
| I need a musical sub under 500,,,,new or used. Lots of suggestions so far. I'd just add, at this price level, avoid anything with a woofer more than 10" in diameter. The amps in the cheap subs and even in some more expensive ones (like your 15" Velodyne) are not capable of controlling that woo... |