I'm glad to see that us Brits aren't the only penny pinching misers out there.
Sorry no offence intended, twas merely a reference to an article about the fickleness of British buying habits that appeared in the August issue of Hi-Fi News - written, unsurprisingly, by an American, Ken Kessler...
Fill the towers with sand . . . might be advisable if one has a lurking kitty.
I use Mission 775e's. No lightweights but the darn cat mangaged to knock one over - twice!
To overcome the problem I've replaced the supplied plinths (they're nothing fancy, 25mm MDF that slightly increases the...
Or go the whole hog . . .
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Yep, good ol' bass management. So simple to understand. To add an extra wrinkle. Having got two subs I experimented with turning the sub output off and connecting them to the front L/R pre-out instead (effectively turning the fronts to 2.5 way). It certainly works, though how well is somewhat...
Being, I would hope, socially aware (not forgetting, of course, that over here in the UK one can have one's kit confiscated if one is found guilty of noise pollution) I too merely ran a 5.0 system - bass and LFE via the front speakers. Just recently, however, a very good friend put me on to...
Oh, I can recommend the Pro-ject, though I dumped the Ortofon cartridge (an OM30, I think) for, ironically, a Sumiko Blue Point. If "Ifs and Ands were Pots and Pans" though, I love to have my old Gyrodek back.
Blackstar are usually pretty good at the prompt despatch of their pre-orders, but a week! I think that's stretching it a bit. Mind you I'm quite prepared to be stood corrected.
Interesting point to ponder.
"Days of Future Passed" was originally conceived as a demo album for the Deramic Sound System. Be somewhat apt, then, if it were to be converted to a multi channel format (preferably SACD).