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I was watching The Police: Certifiable on Blu-ray the other day, and I found that I was disliking the way Sting’s vocals sounded coming from my centre speaker (an Athena C1). Out of curiousity, I set my receiver to phantom centre, and noticed two things immediately: One, the vocals were so...

Okay, the earbuds that came with my new iPhone suck. Suck bad. The only comparison I have is with my Sony MDR-G45 headphones, a behind-the-head, over-the-ear headphone style that to me sound pretty good. Of course, the only time I really use them is when I'm out of the house, listening to mp3...

It was terrible. Truly terrible. I kept fiddling around with settings in my AVR and in my player, but all the vocals kept coming out of the sub. I thought, "Okay, I'll just lower the crossover," and I did -- from 80 Hz to 60, then to 50, then to 40. And the voices kept coming through the...

So I moved my new sub to a new location -- instead of being between the front left speaker and the TV, it's now located between the TV and the front right speaker. I also did a minor bit of furniture moving, but that's off to the side of the HT: I moved a small side table from between two...

In an attempt to find a good spot for my new sub (see sig for gear), I planned on doing the "crawling for bass" thing. I put my sub on the couch where I usually sit and put some music on while I sat in one of the three spots I've selected for the sub. Problem was that with the bass-y music...

Like most, I've all my speakers level-matched using an SPL meter. In my case, I used test tones from the AIX Blu-ray disc. But my question has to do with rear speaker levels when toggling the EX/ES on my receiver. When accepting a 5.1 signal without any EX or ES, a particular sound will...

For several years, I've been using an Athena sub, the AS-P400. It's served me well enough, although the bass sometimes seemed a little bloated at times, possibly due to the untreated living room in which it resides. It's had one major problem -- there's a high-pitched "crunchy" sound coming...

According to Oppo's Facebook presence . . . " We will be announcing a lower-cost Blu-ray player in early January 2010. Visit www.oppodigital.com around that time to learn more." Which goes right along with what quite a few people have been saying about the Oppo BDP-83: take out the m/c...

Anybody hear of this band? Sort of a southern rock/blues kind of thing. And really, really impressive! I just listened to their last (2008) album, Orange Blossoms, which pretty much knocked me flat on my butt! Not a duff song in the bunch, and some pretty steamy and hard blues-y stuff...

Just as you don't mess with a man's car -- you just don't do it! -- isn't there some kind of "man" code that says you DON'T mess with a man's HT?!?!? I'm generally not one for using the Steam Vent, but I'm feeling pretty cheesed off right now. And where better to vent about this than with...

My laptop (a Gateway M6319) doesn't have HDMI out, and doesn't have SPDIF out either. It does have a headphone jack, and I've just been given a headphone-to-RCA cable, which I'd like to use, since it was free, and since my Oppo player doesn't support FLAC files. I did read about a $30 USB...

I mentioned to the kid of the girl I'm dating that my new BD player has underscan in its zoom features, which is great cos my TV (same model as his) has overscan built in. Then this kid -- who does have the tendency to exaggerate and understate EVERYTHING -- tells me that the PS3 (which he uses...

Is this a good idea? I know that when using Pure Direct for CDs (using stereo analog), the mains go full range and the subwoofer is disabled. Sounds great, and I love it. But for SACDs and DVD-As, using the multichannel analog AND Pure Direct, does that send full-range signals to the five...

Now that I'm about to get into Blu-ray, I was wondering what people's favourite review sites are. Personally, I enjoy reading the reviews at two in particular: DVDFile.com and blu-ray.com, mainly because both of which feature separate sections within each review to talk specifically about the...

I just finished watching this amazing flick, and had to post something about it! It's a western. But it's filmed in Japan, directed by a Japanese guy, and cast almost entirely with Japanese actors (plus Quentin Tarantino in a few short scenes). The dialogue is almost all English. And the...

There have been several threads wherein people have discussed how they feel about the new audio formats (Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD) versus the older ones (Dolby Digital and DTS). I thought it might be nice to condense them all in one thread with a poll. This poll is for those who have listened...

Does such a beast exist? If you're thinking, "Huh?", then lemme 'splain. It's like an HDMI switcher, but instead of sets of HDMI in and one HDMI out, you get sets of multi-channel analog audio in and one multi-channel analog audio out. The reason for me wanting such a thing? I would hook...

I'm level-matching again, and this time, I broke out my copy of DVE, just to check if I get the same results as using my receiver's test tones. And I found something kinda interesting. Using test tones from my receiver and the DVE on the digital audio input, when speaker levels from both are...

If we have dual-layer DVDs and dual-layer BDs, why are there no dual-layer CDs and players that can play them? It'd be awful shiny to be able to put The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway or The Wall or The White Album on one disc. cheers, supervij

Just out of curiousity, I measured the height of the tweeters on my side surrounds the other day. I've read that they're supposed to be two to three feet above seated ear level. Measuring the distance, I've discovered that they're three feet and two inches! Naturally, I'm now convinced that...