My dealer was doing the same thing (or rather the kid who was working there on a weekend). I wanted a demo of ADPs, and they fired up their home theater demo room. I was less than impressed, and really wasn't hearing *anything* from the surrounds! They had the ADPs behind me on the back...
The short answer: search in this forum for sa-wm40 and read about filling the enclosure with $2.00 of polyfill and coat the woofer with ModPodge, both from WalMart. Long answer: The Sony SA-WM40, and its successor the SA-WM500, are the most talked about subs on this forum in the budget...
Hey, I read that many of you have done the mod to the sony sa-wm500 sub. I'm trying to do the same to mine, and I'm stuck on the removal of the driver. I have the eight screws out, but I don't know what I should use to get a grip on the driver to pull it out. It seems the only thing...
Also, I had my own conceptual problem where I was thinking of my family room as one carpeted "room"...and the tiled kitchen that was at the "back" of the family room a separate "room." This was incorrect thinking, though. In reality, for the purposes of sound propagation: It's one long...
Since I still can't post URLs, I cannot send you to this similar thread I started on the AVS Forum (Speakers). I can, however, post what was said on it here...(In short, it convinced me to go with dipoles)... --------------- DMF: You optimally want a side surround directly to the side of...
The Athena Audition series AS-R1 surround speaker is a bipole of trapezoidal design, so it'd work well against the wall. The Athena Micra S.5 speaker (lower line), on the other hand, has a rear vent for bass. That'd be bad if it was against a wall. Their SCT series doesn't seem to have an...
If you look at the Paradigm specs pages for Monitor series and the Performance series, you'll see that there are three types of main woofer driver technology use, as well as three different tweeters used. The CC-170 and CC-270 use the same tech as the ADP-170. The CC-370 uses the same tech...
Will dipoles still work as they're supposed to (proper reflected sound) if my rear wall is non-existent? The rear of my family room simply opens up into walkspace and the kitchen, with the division between fam. room and kitchen being the peak of cathedral ceiling and a 7" thick beam running...
Some older DVDs default to Dolby Surround 2.0, which is Pro Logic, which is NOT digital, which is [usually] bad, when you could be listening to the 5.1 digital mix. And many DVDs will have DTS and DD tracks on the same disc. These'll probably default to DD, so if you wanted the DTS track you...
Edy, The rear port of the Atoms will be a problem if it's up against the wall. There's a big difference between the ADPs and direct radiating speakers like Atoms, Titans, Monitors, etc.: The ADPs are [adaptive] dipolar speakers. Dipolar or bipolar speakers are often recommended as...
Ted, I guess y'all are talking about two different things: * a hi-def signal, maybe upconverted * hi def source material transmitted as hi-def all the way The Samsung takes the 480p dvd data and upconverts it...likened to one opening an image 480 pixels tall and resizing it in image...
As I understand it, our hearing is less sensitive to lower frequencies. That might be why you were boosting the bass more. I saw the same thing after buying an SPL meter...to keep a flat response I had to bring the sub back down. Then I raised it a couple notches to compensate for my lack of...
Oachalon, Are you setting your speakers to "large" now for home theater, or music, or both? As I understand it, when your speakers are set to large, the crossover is ignored for those speakers (ie, the "crossover" is set at 0 Hz). Are your main speakers able to yield a flat response at 25...