Recent content by Jack Lee

What's your favorite audio reference DVD for a circling audio pan? A scene where you can here something circle all the way around you. A common favorite is Draco swirling around the knight in Dragonheart. Mickey mouse walking about the concert stage in Fanatasia 2000 is another. There...

Excellent condition Phillips HDR 312 Tivo unit w/two remotes, manuals, IR blaster, original box. Version 3.0 software. Equipped with 30 gig and 60 gig Maxtor hard drives. On month to month subscription. Asking $200 firm plus shipping. No trades please. SOLD

Sale pending (check in the mail) on CLD704.

Doing some house cleaning. The CLD-D704 LD player is in very good condition. Manufacture date Oct 1995. S video out/AC3/optical digital/jog wheel. W/remote and copied manual. NO RF demodulator. Asking $250. HDR312 Tivo 30hr unit + 60Gig harddrive upgrade (106+ hrs) in excellent...

Even identical LCR speakers can have different timbres because of room coloration and speaker placement (acoustic modes, reflections,echoes, dispersion patterns). Imagine the pink noise test tones from each speaker: they almost always sound slightly different from one another as the test signal...

Thanks Guy. The room in question is a bit on the small side - probably not alot of room to offset the mains and/or the listener from the center of the room before getting close to a wall. Given a large enough room though, I'd tend to think any stereo-asymmetry introduced by centering the...

Guy, Other than aesthetic reasons, why is the optimal position still located along Y=70" (i.e. mid-width)? That seems to be right on the null of the of the horizontal fundamental mode near 44Hz. I would have thought Y=W/3 or Y=W/5 would be better places than Y=W/2 for a smoother sub response...

Boris, If your aesthetics allows it, an identical bookshelf for the center is a perfectly valid approach. In your case, it would make sense to get a center speaker as good as the fronts - not worse. As has been noted, Dolby labs recommends this as a 1st option. RANT: I still don't know why...

I believe the idea is to send 540p to the Toshiba set. The Tosh will think that's it an HDTV signal and automatically go into 16:9 mode. However as stated above, The Malata can not do this directly. It is possible to convert some RGB signals to HDTV compatible 540p, but it's expensive and...

"My ($43 each) JBL N24's reach 18.9 kHz (N-24 front left/right.... 89 Hz to 18.9 kHz ±2.7 dB) - speakers squared, not toed-in, averaged over a ±30° window, with double weight given to the most common listening angle, 30°!!! You've got to spend way more for Polks speakers to match the performance...

When I've seen "2 1/2", the 2 mid-range drivers are the same, e.g., a 1" tweeter and two 6.5" cones. You're not really getting more bass extention, per se, in this set up. It's more like doubling the mid-range power, kind of like a 3dB bass boost. Also this arrangement is used for bi-polar...

Sent you email about the Princeton also.

Plan B? Blame the LAPD. Worked for some other outlaws. Oh, MY plan B, not Outlaw's ... (Sorry. My wife is a lawyer in LA. Plan B usually means something else to me.) "If it doesn't ship, you must re-equip." Probably a Tag. [Edited last by Jack Lee on September 12, 2001 at 10:07 PM]

No Sean. A horizontal MTM array will usually limit horizontal dispersion. There is interference around 1-3Khz (so-called combing effects) between the side mid-woofers and tweeter for frequencies near the crossover frequency. The effect of combing is to place a node (ie. dip in SPL) on either...

The N-center is not supposed to have very good horizontal dispersion (many horizontal centers don't). On axis, it's a little more treble peaked than the N-24 bookshelf. If you already have N-24 bookshelfs for fronts, you could use another N-24 as a center. It has a low enough profile and is a...