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  1. Chris Brown

    Breathing new life into an "old" soundcard. Creative X-Fi Titanium HD

    Here I have my trusty old X-Fi Titanium HD. I've owned it for about a decade now. It has been a great card for me that entire time. For a long time, I used it in my main computer. A couple of years ago I swapped from using the X-Fi Titanium HD in my main computer to using a regular X-Fi...
  2. Chris Brown

    laserdisc players.Anyone on here using them?

    I have a Panasonic LX-1000 and an LX-600, both still work great. I still watched my Laserdiscs pretty frequently when DVD was king. I felt that when processed through my HTPC using DScaler before going into my HDTV that the image was pretty darn close to DVD while the audio was clearly...
  3. Chris Brown

    Help dampening sub-woofer noise from next door neighbor

    I think both sides need to give a bit here. How often is he actually using his sub? Is it an all-day, every day sort of thing? Or is it just an occasional evening thing or when he has parties? It's not reasonable to expect to never hear your neighbors, nor is it reasonable to expect to be able...
  4. Chris Brown

    LaserDisc Digital Sound Question

    AC3 is what messed it up really. They could have simply put the AC3 in-place of the PCM tracks but those were the most common tracks used at the time and not everyone even had an AC3 decoder at that point. They actually did this with DTS laserdiscs; there is no PCM on those discs as the DTS...
  5. Chris Brown

    LaserDisc Digital Sound Question

    Are you saying that your player doesn't have a digital output or simply doesn't process the digital sound at all? There are many players without a digital output, but that still process the digital sound. In that case you will usually have more than one set of analog outputs on the back. Yeah...
  6. Chris Brown

    Bridging my amp

    I have a P2201, which is the same as a P2200 but without the meters on the front. The amp doesn't have built-in bridging. As the manual says, I would need a Splitter Transformer at a minimum. The amp has the ability to reverse polarity on one of the channels but that isn't the only piece of...
  7. Chris Brown

    Bridging my amp

    I'm looking for something like this: http://sound.westhost.com/project14.htm But I don't have the ability to construct my own circuit boards. I'd like to find somewhere selling one of these pre-assembled. Any ideas? Alternatively this is what my amp's manual says about this: So I guess...
  8. Chris Brown

    Panasonic Laserdisc Players

    I have a Panasonic LX-1000 that I got a few years ago and has been in my main HT system ever since. Today I was at the flea market and picked up an LX-600 for $15. I tested it and it works great, so i'm pretty happy. The only question that remains is if the LX-600 is better than the LX-1000 (if...
  9. Chris Brown

    Got Mits WS-55511, looking for help with VGA/RGBHV inputs and more

    Well I’ve run into a new problem. We just got a new box from comcast today. The problem is that there is only one set of component inputs that supports over 480P and it happens to be the one that is also part of the RGBHV inputs. I would have to go back there and swap the cables every time I...
  10. Chris Brown

    Got Mits WS-55511, looking for help with VGA/RGBHV inputs and more

    Yeah, I got 960x540p to work except there is a LOT of overscan whereas at 856x480 there is none at all.
  11. Chris Brown

    Got Mits WS-55511, looking for help with VGA/RGBHV inputs and more

    When I checked the interlace box, it set the refresh rate to 30hz automatically
  12. Chris Brown

    Got Mits WS-55511, looking for help with VGA/RGBHV inputs and more

    Well today what I did was I took the VGA breakout cable from my 21” computer monitor (replaced it with a regular VGA cable which works fine). I went to radioshack and bought 5 BNC to phono jack converters (at $5 each, sigh) and that gave me the cable I needed. When I first plugged it in, it...
  13. Chris Brown

    Got Mits WS-55511, looking for help with VGA/RGBHV inputs and more

    Hello everyone, I’ve been out of the hobby for much of last year due to the fact that my old Mitsubishi RPTV was finally starting to die (Got it in the mid 1980’s, so I can hardly complain). All this changed however when final authorization was given to purchase a new TV. Today we came home with...
  14. Chris Brown

    Northern California Lanparties!

    Yeah, it's mostly a gaming thing. Multiplayer gaming on the PC has really taken off in the last few years, and some great games have come out. Most people play on the internet, but it really is a totally different experience coming to a Lanparty and being in the same room as the person you are...
  15. Chris Brown

    Northern California Lanparties!

    very possibly yes... I wasn't aware that their was a video game area :confused:
  16. Chris Brown

    Northern California Lanparties!

    For those of you who live in Northern California, I’d like to give you all the heads up on our upcoming northern California events. (You'll have to make an account before the register links will work: New User) LANtrocity SF #3 Blue Sky Studio, San Francisco Mar 22nd '03 [ REGISTER ]...
  17. Chris Brown

    Technics SL-MC4 60+1 megachanger CD Player

    This Christmas I got a Technics SL-MC4 60+1 Megachanger CD-Player. I got it because I asked for a “Good CD player”… I suppose I should have been more specific. Anyways, I’m still going to give it a shot before I decide to return it. What does everyone think about this player? Is it a good...
  18. Chris Brown

    Merry X-mas What Speakers Did U Wish For!

    I'm quite happy with my Vintage JBL's. Held their own for 23 years, quite possibly forever. Wouldn't mind a new sub though ;)
  19. Chris Brown

    Misleading USA Today HT article..

    That is exactly how i've done it in many situations. you have the a/v cables going into your VCR which then connects to your TV through RF connectors. I was in one of the local Home Theater Stores the other day looking at their JVC DVHS player. I noticed that in addition to the standard...
  20. Chris Brown

    dvd sound.....stinks!

    I absolutely love the sound on my laserdiscs. Doing a direct comparison between the SW Phantom menace DVD and Laserdisc on my system, the LD sounded a lot better (And yes I know the LD is mastered a little hot and did compensate with more volume on the DVD). Although… there are some DVD’s that...
  21. Chris Brown

    Why doesn't AT&T "Digital" Cable have DIGITAL AUDIO?

    This is the Million Dollar Question. I also think it's funny that there is a Dolby Digital Logo on the front of the box... Yeah I know there can be DD2.0 but common!
  22. Chris Brown

    Laundry room etiquette.

    Take a piece of paper and write a note on it explaining that they need to remove their laundry. Include the phrase: “This is warning #1, Warning #2 comes in the form of liquid bleach.” Then toss the note inside and hopefully that is the last time you have a problem with that person.
  23. Chris Brown

    Tom & Jerry in Cinemascope?

    Today, I was doing something and Cartoon network was on the TV in the background. I noticed they were playing "Tom & Jerry” and it was in Widescreen! So I went and sat down. It was going through the various credits screenes before the actual cartoon started. On the last Credits screen at the...
  24. Chris Brown

    Laserdisc is my new god

    DTS does go inplace of the PCM track on DTS laserdiscs, but with Dolby Digital Laserdiscs, the Dolby Digital information is encoded in modulated form in one of the analog audio channels. This is why with laserdiscs, you need an RF Demodulator in order to use Dolby Digital because it has to fish...
  25. Chris Brown

    Laserdisc is my new god

    It's not binary data, it's encoded pulse FM. Just like a Vinyl record is analog, this is also, just read using a laser.
  26. Chris Brown

    Older vs.newer speakers

    Well I find that my JBL L150's, which are dated ~1979, compare quite favorably with modern high-end speakers. Granted, if you take inflation into account it would equal a great deal of money today. Unlike many other components… Good speakers can last you 10 or even 20 years.
  27. Chris Brown

    mp3 to CD format (cda?).. is it good?

    Do you loose anything in the mp3 to cd conversion? I know MP3's aren't that great, but I hate the thought of them getting any worse through the conversion process.
  28. Chris Brown

    What would it take for YOU to get D-Theater?

    It’s a money issue for me. I have a very limited budget; and to save and purchase a D-Theater player right now, I would have to neglect pretty much everything else. And Right now I have a lot of things that need attention. If I don’t get a new TV pretty soon, I’ll be stuck watching...
  29. Chris Brown

    Please help me fix my RPTV.

    Please help me fix my RPTV. I have a Mitsubishi 36” RPTV Model# VS-360R form the 80’s. For a while now, it’s had major problems and I’ve just been lazy to fix it but I can’t stand it anymore. Sorry for my lack of drawing skill. The top picture looks like what my Tv looks like when I...
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