Wayne, Great job! I enjoyed reading this. You know what, My music room is exactly the same dimensions as yours! I have it in the right corner as well and you know what? My FR is almost similar to yours! I had lots of trouble getting rid of the 50hz dip as well. What did you do to EQ yours...
Wayne, It's ok! I have been using a processor for about 6 years now and it has caught me out till Mark explained it so clearly! :-) I had the exact same "understanding" as you had previously. In fact I had been trying to reduce the distance in the settings in a effort to get the sub to...
Thanks Mark! Another great tip from you. Will keep this this tip in my little HiFi Black Book. I have been playing with this same parameter in my processor and I am now at 20 feet instead of 11 feet which is the correct distance. I did not know why but I felt that anything above 15 feet gave...
>>>> Sure why not Oliver. The PB10-ISD would make a good friend for the Ultra. Thats why I picked mine up One sub has a tendency to get a little lonely now and then. The Ultra will reward you for the nice gesture.
Understand where you are coming from. Perhaps fudge is the wrong word to use. My bad. I just hope that Secrets editors see why there are so many people who are unhappy recently about their reviews. They do not have to please the readers. But readers are ultimately what matters to them in the...
Ed, I never said they did. I said it seemed like. Why? If you look at all the Sub reviews they have done since the last two years, they all seem different measurements were done. Some had max SPL at each freq. Some had max spl at less then 10% distortion. Some had no measurements at all...
Thanks Brandon. I too am leaning toward the MX-500. But I would like to have a 2nd choice to auction as well! :-) I will probably decide between the URC-200 and the MX-500. Oliver
PaulDA, Then unfortuntely you cannot try that. I guess if both the player and the reciever has the same crossover point, the slope of the crossover is making the difference. Most players has a shallower slope such as 6db/octave. While recievers typically use a 12 or 24db/octave crossover...
Finally got down to doing a TrueRTA measurement of my current sub location. I will provide measurements for 3 other locations at a later date once I know if I got the measurements correct. so please tell me if I need other different measurements! Here is the Gallery where you can see all my...
Missed this thread and posted a somewhat similar thread! My Marantz RC2000 just died and I was also looking atht eh MX500 and the URC 100-200 models. I will do a little research on these 2 models but do tell me what you decided in the end! Thanks Oliver
My Marantz RC2000 finally decided enough was enough. I am now in the market for a new remote. I like those which has a combination of soft and hard buttons. A close replacement looks like the Universal MX-500 series? they also have a new model which is the 100-200-300 models but the MX-500...
Craig, It's finally out! Great write up! Thanks for making the effort. One thing. did you manage to compare the B4+ with the Maestro on music? I notice you only talked about the difference of the two on HT? Oliver
You can also try having a different crossover of the mains and sub. I found that in my case, a 60hz crossover on the mains with a 80hz crossover on the sub resulted in a much smoother Freq Response for me. Part of the reason was a dip near my crossover of 80hz no matter the phase or what I did...
I too have been very dissappointed with the variability of their reviews. It just seems like they want to please the manufacturers by fudging their reviews recently. Sad that it has become so. Oliver
Great news Ron. I may just bite to get a unit for Music only and leave my PC-Ultra for my LFE! :-) My PC-Ultra would look menacing standing on top of the PB-10! Oliver
How's the player access speed? Does it take long to read a disc that you just insert? The 2900 that I have is rather slow compared to Pioneer current or even older model. Of course it is still way faster then my previous Momitsu 880! :-) Oliver
Yupe. MingL has said what I needed to say! Just to add that I am not sitting near the center of the room. My room is 15' x 17' x 8'. Almost square all right. I seat about 5 feet from the right wall and about 4 feet from the back wall. Actually the near the back left of the room, it opens up...
Wayne, I have the BFD connected currently. Basically what I am doing now is boosting the 60hz dip by about 4dbs. Problem is my crossover sounds best at 80hz, so from 80hz to 60hz , there is a dip of about 10dbs, and then to 40hz, there is a peak of about 10dbs. From 40hz to 20hz, there is a...
Wayne, I checked both Sub only and Sub with Mains using TrueRTA and there is no phase problems due to the signal before and after the crossover at both the sub and mains signal. It drops very smoothly. The only thing I have not tried is to lift my Sub about 1 to 1.5 feet up to see if there is...
I had the exact same dip at about 61hz +- 2. Moving the sub to different locations only helped a little. The dip was mainly contributed by the listening position and is about 25db down from peak and 15db down from the average. Will lowering the average to 65 +- 5db result in any loss of...
Ed, Did you manage to get the same set of measurements of the PC-Ultra? I gather it would prob push about 1-2db more the the 20-39 Plus model right? Probably with a little less distortion at the same time. It hard to decide between the Ultra and Plus. The price gap seems to be a little too...