Posts by DarrenAlan

I agree on the piece-by-piece approach. Surround sound quality is usually quite inferior, not to mention restricted in frequency range if you set the speakers to "small" and run LFE into your sub. Start with a good quality set for...

Oh, and I second Mapleshade.

-Female vocalists (Diana Krall, Tori Amos, Jewel, Sarah MacLachlan). You'll hear a stridency in overly bright speakers you won't with warmer ones -Anything mastered in the mid-to-late 80s. I have a Springsteen compilation and, while...

What's your room size? I have a pair of the old ProMedia 2.0s and if I recall, they're pretty small -- 3.5" midbass unit, a 5/8 or 1/2" tweeter, and a smallish sub with a 6" woofer. OK for a dorm room, perhaps, but wouldn't really work...

Must say, it looks darn cool though! And it might sound OK; impossible to tell without hooking it up and listening to it.

It's probably OK for the money, but not much better than that. You're definitely NOT getting 25 Hz at -3 db, or probably -10 db for that matter. By comparison, my Orb Audio sub with an 8" driver does 28 Hz at -4 db and cost me $333...

Find the DTS thematic (the ones they play once you select "DTS" from the DVD menu; for example, there's one of piano hammers hitting the wires) from "Chicken Run" and set your volume to about 7. That's blast his eyebrows back.

One more tip -- I ran 14/4 (four wires) so that all I had to do @ the end was split red & black (which I designated left hot and left negative) and yellow and blue (right hot and right negative).

I used something similar for a 100-foot run from a NAD C370 amp to JBL N24-AW speakers and PartsExpress-sourced subwoofer. Works fine. Just make sure the copper seems of decent quality and use some sort of sealed connector (I used a...

Just wanted to put in a good word for Chuck Williams, who a few weeks ago touched up my Panny 47WX49 that Gregg first calibrated in 2002 (yes, it was well past time). The two words I would use to describe Chuck are "gracious" and...