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Has anyone heard of a DIY amp trigger for an older amp that has no 12V trigger. My pre-pro has a 12V trigger output, but the amp does not. I'm thinking some sort of FET circuit spliced into the power cord. I'm not quite up to the point of diminishing returns whereby my power cord is the...

Who comes out of the cage a winner? I know 1 has an extra channel. Is that enough to tip the scales? I can get both at similar prices, and have no opportunity to in-home audition them. Both have similar power and stats. I'll be using HK525 as pre-pro in a 6.1 movie setup. No multi-channel...

I'm shopping for a 5-channel amp for ~$1500. Looking at: Outlaw, Parasound & Sherbourn. Comparing specs along the way to help me make my decision. After numerous emails to Sherbourn, I still can not get a spec sheet out of them for the 5/5210. They also have not responded to my question...

Can someone point out the differences between the older Sherbourn 2/1500A (5x200W) and newer 2/5210 (5x200w) amplifiers? I've poked around on Sherbourn.com and couldn't really come up with a difference list. Both have 5 independent channels internally but there must be some significant...

No Longer for sale. thanks, g

These are very nice, multi-angular wall/ceiling mounts for speakers. MANUFACTURER LINK TO MOUNTS There's a brochure on the website and even a list of speakers that these mounts will fit. These are the 20.0 WB for 20lbs, Wall mount, Black. These are MADE IN USA and are STAINLESS STEEL...

What are the pros/cons of using spikes on speaker stands? Some stands have no spikes top or bottom (mostly cheaply priced ones). Some stands I see have spikes on the bottom plate and rubber pads on the top plate. Some stands have spikes on the top and bottom plate. What's the school of...

In ~ 3 weeks, I'll be in Montreal on business at Celestica. While there, I want to check out local Paradigm dealers for some Studio series. The paradigm website requires you to enter a postal code for a dealer locator. I've been to the Canadian Post Office website and it's not very friendly...

When running a receiver in 7-channel stereo musci mode, does the amount of music sent to the side and rear channels typically overtax the standard dipole/quadpole surround speakers? Or is the amount of info sent through these channels minimal like a DVD surround channel may send back there...

Hi, My getup consists of H/K 525 rcvr, 6 dahlquist qx6, 1 svs 22-31 Pci.....so far so good. Now....after connecting everything up, I went to EzSet to do a quick calibration (AVIA disc is on order). I calibrated in Dolby mode and was pretty happy with the results. Then I put in a DVD that...

HK 525 @ ECOST How low can it go?