Comments on: AVRant #141: Custom Love

By: kinge

kinge — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:45:08 +0000

Listened to this show today. It has been a while since I have been able to listen and it was great. Thanks you all!

So Dina says, “Now, go listen to something!”, and I thought Something else?
listened to the music bumper and then realized that I am not the only one with these thoughts

Jeb

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:00:01 +0000

When it comes to the front 3 speakers, personally, I cannot stand it when there is any sort of shift in tone/ timbre/voice/etc. as the sound pans across the front – drives me batty!

So I am in total agreement with the idea of using 3 identical speakers across the front. Naturally, the problem is that the ideal placement for the centre speaker is directly in front of the TV screen! Other than an acoustically transparent front projection screen, the only viable option is to place the centre speaker either above or below the screen and then angle it to aim it at the listener as necessary. Of course, with a regular bookshelf speaker, it looks kind of odd and unwieldy and it’s basically impossible with a tower speaker. So the “dedicated centre speaker” came to be as a compromise. It was never envisioned as being ideal or preferable. It’s basically just a regular bookshelf speaker laid on its side. But it looks better and it’s easier to place, so we live with the compromised audio quality.

If you have the capability and you don’t mind the looks, I far prefer using a regular bookshelf speaker as the centre speaker and having 3 identical speakers across the front. In my own living room setup though, I have 3 identical front speakers, but the centre speaker is laid on its side. The Energy RC-Mini Centre speakers are a MTM design and were engineered to sound virtually the same whether upright or on their side, but there is still a slight shift in the sound – it’s unavoidable really.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:12:42 +0000

Hey, Tom. Do you think “Nigel” from “the UK” would let you forward the details of his setup to me? I’d love to have a look and read about his problems. I might be able to help

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:36:31 +0000

Hey, Tom. I think you forgot about Dina. Here’s the link for the 10 worst wiring jobs.

http://www.cepro.com/slideshow/image/5298/

By: alexend

alexend — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:06:10 +0000

Here’s the link :

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=3301

By: alexend

alexend — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:05:31 +0000

Hi all,

About PS3 slim, it seems to new model is alot quieter and I’ve read on blu-ray.com that it is capable of bitstreaming DolbyTruHD and DTS-Master HD.

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:30:46 +0000

I tried a matching center in our setup: a single 5.25″ mid and 1″ tweeter DefTech ProMonitor 1000. Even my wife commented that dialog and dynamic passages were distractingly thin.

We switched it out for a dedicated-center MTM DefTech ProMonitor 2000 (dual 5.25″) and we are much happier.