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I just bought a v75 sub from them at a great price about two weeks ago. Unfortunately two of the pins that hold on the grille got broken in shipping. M&K said they'd send replacement parts...and then, radio silence. Now I know why. After seeing the notice about the closure, I emailed...

What's changed? This site has looked exactly the same as it did three or four days ago when the factory closure announcement was posted. Also, I wrote to Ken Kreisel and never got a response.

Don't use the tape monitor The volume on a tape monitor output is constant, which means that it will not vary along with the setting on your integrated amp's volume control. So you will have to adjust the output control on your sub every time you change the volume control on the integrated amp...

What Consumer Reports is good for A lot of people don't agree with the ratings that CR prints concerning audio and video equipment. If your eyes and ears arrive at different ratings, you know which to trust. On the other hand, their frequency of repair data is invaluable. I can't think of...

It would definitely be worthwhile to have a sub--does that Yamaha have a subwoofer output? I have a 12' x 13' room and use an M&K V75 sub that is MORE than adequate. In fact, I just bought a closeout (new) V75 sub from their website for $500 for a much larger room, and it gives all the bass...

I have the Rives Test CD2 (thanks, Audioholics and Rives--I won it through one of the Audioholics contests!). To me the test tracks are very useful. However, I have never been able to keep my attention focused through even a single one of the Mapleshade music tracks. I would rather listen to...

I have a 3910 and the audio output is superb, especially when I use the analog outputs. The DAC's in the 3910 give me better results than the DAC's in my 3805 receiver. 3. I don't think there any any video inputs on the 3930, so I can't see how you could use the 3930 to process files from your...

I don't know if this will do it, but have you tried going into the digital input assignment screens on your receiver and reassigning the DVD player's input from DenonLink to either coax or fiber-optic? As a matter of curiosity, I'm wondering why you even have the DenonLink connected if...

A variety of possible reasons, depending on how you have set up the two systems: *If you use the 5.1 analog outputs on the 3910, then speaker levels, delays, and subwoofer crossover point are being set by the 3910, not the 3805. Maybe you have them set up better on the 3910 than on the 3805...

another suggestion: M&K I have had an M&K V-75MKII sub. I use it for movies and classical music and it's good for both. It plays plenty loud in my 3000 sq. ft. living room and goes down to 20 Hz. They have some MkIV models of this sub at a good discount price right now (I just ordered one to...

When you use the Denon Link, then you are using the DAC's in your 3805 to convert the signal from your hi-rez discs into analog mode. The advantage of this is that you can apply the RoomEQ settings in your 3805 to those hi-rez signals. The disadvantage is that the DAC's in the 3910 are superior...

There may be a way I have a 3910 and it does the same thing when I'm not using the HDMI connection to play back a DVD video through my TV (and I don't have an HDMI-enabled receiver). As they say at Microsoft, "It's not a bug, it's a feature." It's probably supposed to tell you that if you...

I have the AVIA DVD, as well as a 3805. There's nothing on the Avia disc that addresses EQ directly. However, there are some audio tests in which pink noise is slowly panned in a circle around all of your speakers (except the sub), so you can hear if there are pronounced differences in tonal...

Gene: Thanks for posting this. I particularly enjoyed the remark about the speaker cables needing to be of equal length. Since the signal travels at the SPEED OF LIGHT, the principles of physics mean that you'd need ears that can hear the signal before it travels down the cable in order to hear...

Optical cables are all alike. They are transmitting the sound digitally, so as long as the cable isn't broken or something like that, any optical cable of the right length will do. As for the DVD player, component cables to the TV will work fine. Sometimes people report that they get better...

if you have SACD surround... There is an SACD-only (it's not a hybrid) disc on Sony with E. Power Biggs playing four toccatas and fugues of Bach in the Freiburg cathderal. He plays on 4 antiphonal organs, meaning that the listener is in the middle of all 4 organs. The playing is lively and...

However, the digital coax will not transmit SACD and DVD-A, so you'll need either analog or DenonLink if you listen to those sources. You can actually have all of them connected up at once and compare them. The only "gotcha" to doing this on the 3910 is that if DenonLink is connected and...

I hear no difference. The DenonLink cable came with my 3910 player, so it was basically free. I compared the DenonLink to the digital coax cable as well as to optical (TOSLINK), and I heard no differences among the three. All three of mine are really short cables, so I have no experience with...

1. It lets you apply the room equalization features in your receiver to SACD and DVD-Audio signals. If you don't use Denonlink, then the audio signals are converted in the DVD player, time delay (i.e., distance from each speaker to the listener) and bass management are handled in the player, and...

Denonlink has good and bad points Denonlink uses the audio DAC's in the receiver, so your 3930 is essentially operating as a transport for audio. In contrast, using analog audio connections to your receiver lets the DAC in the 3930 do its work. I have a 3910 and a 3805 receiver. SACD's in...