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Maybe the guy on the phone didn't know, and maybe they think it isn't an important stat. It reminds me of Rolls Royce dealers who, in the past anyway, would answer the question: "How many horsepower does it have?" with "Sufficient." Claude

Pardon my ignorance, but I haven't been paying much attention to the 950 threads because I'm happy with my Casanova; the Anthem interests me because of the Analog DSP mode. However, did I understand correctly that the 950 doesn't do speaker time alignment? If that's the case, it would seem...

Evan, thanks for your reply. If you can find the reference in the owner's manual, I'd be considerably reassured. I e-mailed tech support at Anthem, but they haven't gotten back to me yet. I'm still not sure that I'm going to go forward with this (i.e., the Casanova is a fine unit, and other...

I looked through the owner's manual, but couldn't find an explicit answer to my question: Does the AVM20 allow delay settings on DSP mode analog 5.1 inputs, i.e., on inputs that have been A/D converted? This is of more interest to me than actual analog bypass. I might have missed the...

Jerry said

Ken, I just re-read your post. I thought you were talking about pre-pros and their delay capabilities. AFAIK, NO players, none, nada, not a single blessed one, provides delay settings for SACD or DVD-A. If there is one, I would probably buy it. Claude

Ken, Only pre-pros that digitize their 5.1 inputs will have time delays. Anthem has an option for digitizing, and I assume time delays are operative then. I don't know of other pre-pros that digitize, and there are many people who would consider it blasphemy to go through D-A A-D D-A to get...

Unless you have all your speakers equidistant from the listening position, bass management on the 5.1 analog inputs is not the biggest problem. Not being able to set delays turns music into something-other-than-music. I experimented at home, and discovered that I could listen well enough to...

A used (or heavily discounted!) Theta Casanova would handle your needs except for the 5.1 passthrough. There's an option for that, but it's expensive. Theta has arguably the best and most flexible bass management of any of the pre-pros. 3 xover types, multiple slopes, multiple hinge points...

RichardH, I found a link I'd been looking for (just by chance on another forum) that does a great job of describing crossovers and the benefits of active xovers. It does a good job of describing the issues: http://sound.westhost.com/bi-amp.htm All the best, Claude

RichardH, If you're looking into Genelecs, you should consider Linn seriously. I decided for the Linns over the Genelecs for two reasons: 1) their sound was more musical to me, less "monitorish" and 2) the upgrade path is such that there's very little sunk cost. Nearly all Linn speakers are...

I've had active speakers for a year or two. Since they're Linn speakers, I had the opportunity to have them passive first, then passively bi-amped, and then fully active. Linn speakers, in case you're not familiar with them, use external amplifiers with the active xover also external to the...

Brian, I can assure you that the passive (i.e. speaker's) xover is still very much in the picture when passively bi-amping. That's why I had to open up my Tukans and 5120 to snip some xover connections when I went active. That is also the reason why there's not such an improvement when...

Brian said

John, Glad you found it informative. Now I'm REALLY hoping that I was accurate :) I'm with you on active bi-amping, at least as far as doing it with speakers that weren't designed for it. Almost all Linn speakers are designed with an upgrade path to active (aktiv in Linnish), and they're my...

Further to the pink noise question, AFAIK pink noise is like white noise, but with an increased level in the (IIRC) high frequencies. White noise, AFAIK, is equal level at all audible frequencies. In any case, they don't have a Hz rating as such, since they cover the audible spectrum...

John said

If you are getting roughly equal discounts, I would vote for REL (I've been very happy with my Strata II for quite a while). OTOH, if you're getting some killer discount on another quality sub, that might sway the equation. Claude

Jerry, I didn't realize that the 5140 aktivation required soldering. The Tukan and 5120 conversion simply required snipping IIRC (and of course the xovers installed in the amps). Henning, I agree completely with Jerry on the cost-effectiveness of Linn amps and their synergy. It would be...