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Let me know when you get your DD10 and compare it with the SVS. For WAF reasons, I'm thinking of making a similar switch (from a PB12-ISD, maybe to a DD10 or DD12).

Oh, and I would agree that point 2 (about Sauron's idiocy) is a nitpick about the book too, not just the movie . . .

Maybe it is time to reread the book. I'm thinking about it. . . But I guess maybe it's the movie. In the movie (at least) they seemed so all-powerful that they could well have wiped up at Mordor on their own, or at least provided an enormous distraction, whatever was happening or had...

OK, OK, I totally cave on point 3 (about Frodo and Sam) and mostly on point 2 (about Sauron leaving Mount Doom empty), though on the latter, it really was idiotic not to put say 50 orcs at the crack of doom, or whatever it was called. I mean, the other side has no trouble imagining that Sauron...

Sorry if these have already been covered (I've only read about the last 20 pages of posts). On watching the movie, I had a few nitpicks that I thought you guys could help me get over (I read the book 3 times, but many years ago) 1. It seems like Aragorn made a major mistake with the Army...

Titanic When the mother puts those two little kids to bed in Titanic, knowing that there's nothing else to do . . .

Ha, I can return an old favor from "Brucer" on avsforum, or at least pass it along. I had the same question. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...hreadid=288992 The bottom line: there are switch boxes designed for this, not just reverse speaker selector boxes. I got the one suggested in...

Who (else) can say, and having lived most of one life doesn't make me an expert. But I remember clearly a time in college when I couldn't decide between on the on one hand physics/economics and on the other literature/art etc. Now, I've regretted many decisions in my life, but not the one to go...

I thought the Rives disk would be nice for quick-and-dirty checks (I know, not what this person wanted, but I thought I'd mention it). If the system is reasonably well set-up, you can just run through the tracks without adjusting the settings on the meter too much. It's good for quickly checking...

Wonderful movie. Not a romantic comedy, so don't go expecting one. I have a question for those who've seen it. what do you think he whispered in her ear at the end of the movie? Thanks, Andy (Admin note - discussion about that question can be found in the official discussion...

This is sort-of a repeat post from the same thread over on avs forum, but what about those of us who don't care much about dvd-a and are looking for a good sacd/progressive scan dvd player? How about this one vs. the Sony dvd-nc685 (or the ns755 on ebay)? I know, the Pioneer has DVD-A and the...

J.M., Sorry about the basic question but could you explain this a bit more? You say "The Avia DVD is a true Dolby Digital disc. As such, the subwoofer test tone is not discrete like the internal one from an AVR." Do you mean that in the Avia test tones, the "subwoofer" test tone is not...

I'm in the same boat, so not to hijack the thread, but . . . This is for my second system, in the living room. High WAF required. I'm going to use bookshelves, such as Ascend 340l/r, monitor audio, or B&W 303s, and an Onkyo sr600 receiver. 100 percent two-channel music. The CD player needs to...

I think that's the same error as made by the author, though I would be most happy to be educated. Don't you have to add the two curves together, not just superimpose them? For example, consider the point where they cross, where each speaker is -6db. I thought that if you added two identical...

I'm not arguing about the Bose, but that article doesn't seem very competent. The author does not seem to understand how to add the frequency response graphs from the different speakers to get the combined frequency response. It doesn't look like there is a dip of more than -3 at the cross-over...