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  1. David Hoffman

    which center and surround to match Paradigm Monitors?

    And it appears that the ADP-70s are even worse than the performance line, since it's a completely different type of woofer.
  2. David Hoffman

    which center and surround to match Paradigm Monitors?

    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...
  3. David Hoffman

    remove driver of sa-wm500 sub

    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...
  4. David Hoffman

    remove driver of sa-wm500 sub

    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...
  5. David Hoffman

    Should I use dipole surrounds with no near rear wall?

    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...
  6. David Hoffman

    Should I use dipole surrounds with no near rear wall?

    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...
  7. David Hoffman

    Home theater speaker recommendations

    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...
  8. David Hoffman

    Is this a decent setup/pricing for paradigm?

    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...
  9. David Hoffman

    Should I use dipole surrounds with no near rear wall?

    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...
  10. David Hoffman

    Basic Set-Up; Sound Questions

    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...
  11. David Hoffman

    B&W 600 series or Paradigm Monitors which of the 2 are better sounding...

    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...
  12. David Hoffman

    New to Home Theater with some questions..

    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...
  13. David Hoffman

    New to Home Theater with some questions..

    Also for the XBox you should have the hi def adaptor pack, that contains component cable jacks and optical digital audio jack.
  14. David Hoffman

    Sound Calibration Question...

    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...
  15. David Hoffman

    Is 80 hz the best crossover?

    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...
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