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| Center channel question? Kr4...Optimum voice intelligibility has been extensively researched for applications like air traffic control communications and alarm annunciators, and is achieved with limited bandwidth and shaped frequency response so extreme that no HT theatre... | |
| Center channel question? For a music system the center channel speaker is most important, and should equal or exceed the performance of the others. However, for movies, the center channel is used for dialog, and dialog is more intelegible from a speaker with relatively na... | |
| RCA to XLR adapters… The neatest solution is to have an unbalanced interconnect made up with RCA on one end and XLR (wired unbalanced) on the other end. No adapters. | |
| Idiotic Vertical Biamping Question I object to the term "biamping" when the amps are not fed hi and lo frequency signals from an electronic crossover!! How about "dualamping".My experience with bridging has been good. When you bridge a stereo amp one channel is using an out of phas... | |
| Where do you find new music? Although FM radio is sometimes helpful, I often buy music based on the artist, the composer, and similarity to recordings that I already have and like. For example, if I like one Mozart Symphony performance by a particular conductor and orchestra,... | |
| ADCOM GFA 555-II distortion alert? It is in the power amp. The "distortion indicator" simply tells you that the output, adjusted for gain, does not match the input within some tolerance. The comparitor circuit or possibly the tolerance-setting device is probably temperature sensiti... | |
| bi-amp or not ot bi-amp? Keeping the observations of a general nature, I think that biamping carries more advantage if you are using tube amplifiers, where high power is costly, and IM distortion remains an issue. I biamp using ss, but my rig would probably seem impractic... | |
| Another sign SACD is dying It really isn't fair to compare the 3-channel SACD with the LP mixed down, from the 3-channel masters, to 2-channel. | |
| Does anyone have information on the Adcom 2535 Don't bridge 535s unless your speakers are 8 ohms. | |
| Does anyone have information on the Adcom 2535 Why not just get two stereo 535? I have used Monoblocks, Stereo and Quad power amps. Monoblocks are the most flexible. Stereo next, and Multichannel last. At the moment I use three stereo amps (Carver ZR1600) like monoblocks biamping three speaker... | |
| Cassette Recorder replacement? Professional recording generally used DBX (I'm told) because it is better. (Pro DBX was not the same as what they marketed to the consumer...more complex). Dolby marketing stategy to the consumer (license the process inexpensively to hardware manu... | |
| cable directionality Fortunately it rarely makes any differencs!!I once installed shielded 300 ohm twinlead (not a common wire) for a TV, and was surprised to discover that the "proper" grounding for the shield was not grounded at either end. | |
| Any speaker terminal passive crossovers? Matchstikman...The Y-adapter will do nothing more than what your old preamp did. (It had a built in Y circuit). | |
| cable directionality Oh boy! There is some confusion here. I always heard that the arrow points in the direction of signal transmission (preamp to amp), which means that, for conventional grounding practice, the IC shield would be grounded at the TAIL of the arrow. I ... | |
| Any speaker terminal passive crossovers? Why not just give your new preamp an additional line out by using a Y-connector? And why do you need the FMOD? Powered SW generally have their own low pass filter.However..I assume that your SW has separate terminals for hookup to speakers. If so,... |