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  1. Greg Conti

    Official Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-Ray player thread

    Flyboys plays fine for me but I couldn't get "Stranger Than Fiction" to play.
  2. Greg Conti

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Halloween -- in BD

    WTF!?! Evil Dead II is out on Blu Ray? Where have I been hiding? I'm picking up both these titles :)
  3. Greg Conti

    BLU RAY OR HD DVD??

    OR? "And" here. I'm only interested is watching movies in hidef and I'll watch it any way I can get it if the price is resonable.
  4. Greg Conti

    HD DVD Plugs Into Circuit City...

    I guess Circuit City is pushing HD DVD now. I went into my local store last night and all three demo rooms had HD DVD going. Also, all the TVs on the floor save the one Blu Ray setup were displaying HD DVD. In addition, all the Blu Ray movies were thrown randomly in one box while HD DVDs were...
  5. Greg Conti

    Blu-ray Review HTF BLU-RAY REVIEW: Crank

    I actually rather enjoyed this movie. PQ was top notch as well.
  6. Greg Conti

    Pirated HD-DVD's released online

    You could always burn ripped Blu-Ray movies to HD-DVD and play them back.
  7. Greg Conti

    how many friends (offline) have either (360) HD-DVD add on or ps3?

    None of my friends own any gaming consoles. Funny, because many of my friends and myself owned all the consoles back in the day. Last gaming system I bought was a N64. I might buy an Xbox360 if the quite them down and included a HD-DVD drive. Not to game but as an extender because I am a MCE2005...
  8. Greg Conti

    The "Anti HD-DVD/DVD Combo" thread

    I think combos are a good idea if the price is the same as non-combos. But by charging what the are they are basically forcing me to buy a SD version since $SD + $HD = $combo.
  9. Greg Conti

    Porn Companies to use Blu-Ray (?)

    Thats my understanding as well except there were/are no Blu-Ray facilities that will handle porn in Japan and the US either. Kinda funny the porn industry is supporting a format that doesn't want their business.
  10. Greg Conti

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ King Kong -- in HD-DVD

    Like I didn't already want this movie before!!! Really can't wait to get this now.
  11. Greg Conti

    Firewall HD-DVD Audio Issues

    I just watched this a couple of nights ago and didn't notice any problems. I using the 5.1 analog outs.
  12. Greg Conti

    HD-DVD (and BluRay) copy protection "hacked"

    This is garbage. First of all, if you capture to a non-lossy picture format, your talking like 6 mb per frame. Do the math. That will not work. So you will need to cap to jpeg, which will introduce jpeg artifacts. Then you will need to put it all together and step on it again. No thanks. The end...
  13. Greg Conti

    JBL professional sub bass THX!

    I ran a 4645B for years with a bridged Macrotech 1200. I've never once bottomed out the JBL or even clipped the amp. It was very impressive. I eventually grew tired of the huge thing sitting in my living room and built a much smaller 15" sub with dual PRs that gets me a little deeper and...
  14. Greg Conti

    SVS releases news on bookshelf & center

    Interesting to say the least. I think the next friend who wants me to set up a system may get these. Not many companies making sealed bookshelfs these days. Makes sense though. Who would be running SVS bookshelfs without a SVS sub?
  15. Greg Conti

    JBL questions

    I found the S38s to sound quite different than the S-26s. I never heard the ND-310s so I can't comment. However, I would think the S38s would be closer to the ND310s than the S26s being 3-way designs and all. The N series and S series tweeters sounded a bit different too. I found the S series...
  16. Greg Conti

    -3 db. @ 22 Hz. and enough output to commit a war crime:

    I ran a 4645B version for a few years in my setup. No output below 20 Hz but that ok with me as I don't care about that. If you know someone, you can get pretty good deals. The 4645B was around $700. I paired that with a used Macrotech 1200 I picked up for $500 and had some serious output for...
  17. Greg Conti

    What Did I Do Wrong With These Passive Radiators?

    Well, people do blow woofers all time time in bookshelf speakers overdriving the bass driver but probably not from subsonic bass. I wouldn't say a subsonic filter is of much use on a bookshelf speaker. I don't think those drivers are going to respond to sub 20Hz signals. If the bookshelfs will...
  18. Greg Conti

    What Did I Do Wrong With These Passive Radiators?

    Correct. If the speaker are set to small on the receiver, then they would have the bass removed below the crossover point. That bass and any subsonic will now go to the sub. I think most powered subs have built in subsonic filters.
  19. Greg Conti

    What Did I Do Wrong With These Passive Radiators?

    I think I've come to the conclusion with Adires help that it must have been subsonics that killed the PRs. I ordered two more PRs and a 24db/octave subsonic filter. So much for saving money. But then if I had bought a sub, I wouldn't be having all this fun. It is pretty cool to show my friends...
  20. Greg Conti

    What Did I Do Wrong With These Passive Radiators?

    Mark, I was using a bridged Adcom GFA555. I guess maybe Revolutions has some deep bass I wasn't counting on. Should have been using a subsonic filter I suppose. I thought the Titanic would give up way before the PRs would, at least from looking at the excursion graphs.
  21. Greg Conti

    What Did I Do Wrong With These Passive Radiators?

    Played some dance music for a while which I doubt did anything as the PRs didn't even move. Then a calibrated the sub output to about 80 db. Played test tones from 20 to 80 Hz at around 85 db and got a beautiful room response. Watched some scenes from Matrix Revolutions at -5db from ref levels...
  22. Greg Conti

    What Did I Do Wrong With These Passive Radiators?

    The driver and PRs were all verticle. The driver facing the front, and the PRs on each side.
  23. Greg Conti

    What Did I Do Wrong With These Passive Radiators?

    OK...I seriously screwed something up here. I built a 120L sub with a Dayton Titanic mkIII with two Adire Audio 15" passive radiators loaded with an additional 1015 grams (1300 grams total) each. Based on Unibox and WinISD Pro, I should not have come close to the excursion limits of the PRs...
  24. Greg Conti

    Wharfedale?

    Too bad they don't have any more centers, I would love to have a pair of Opus 1s and the matching center.
  25. Greg Conti

    What Subwoofer Does Everybody Have?

    JBL 4645b with a bridged Crown Microtech 1200. Soon to be replaced by a Titanic MKIII sonosub.
  26. Greg Conti

    Current JBL Speakers - Not What They Used To Be

    The newer JBL lines (Northridge, Studio, etc) don't have that "classic" JBL sound. The drivers on the new stuff look really cheap to me (I have opened them up to look). However, you can still get that JBL studio monitor sound with the 4410s or 4412s. I would love to have a 7.1 system with 4412s...
  27. Greg Conti

    S38II and S312II breakin?

    There are a lot of people who would say the S38s are probably more accurate. That the 12" woofer on the S312s are imparting an unatural heavyness to the sound. Male voice can sound a bit heavy at times. That said, I personally am getting tired of the sound of small woofers. They just sound limp...
  28. Greg Conti

    Tempest Excursion Confusion

    Joe L. Firstly, your unequalized room response is amazing compared to mine. I'm very jealous. When I model with LspCad I get the same thing as you if "Sep. sources" is checked under dual voice coil. If I select "series" I get excursions that agree with WinISD and Unibox. The TS parameters...
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