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Mudcat; Can't you borrow one from work for a day or two? I will help devise a testplan for you if you like.

Mudcat; Most SPL meters aren't accurate enough to record the differences you are after. The best way to do this would be to attach a scope to the speaker and measure the level difference if any. If you do measure a difference at 1kHz it is likely a result of resistance differences between...

1) Get a throw rug for that floor. Make sure you put a thick pad below it (act as absorbers). 2) Add thick padded curtains or drapery to the windows. (act as absorbers) 3) Integrate bookshelves with books in them on the back walls behind the listener. (Act as diffusors) 4) Toe in main...

toquemon; The law of diminishing returns between flagship receivers vs separates comes rather quickly. Since both products are usually designed excellently, there should be little to no sonic differences in most applications. To spend more $$$ on electronics without first addressing the...

Why not try it and see how you like it? I am currently doing an install with a RX-V2500 as preamp to a dedicated 7CH power amp. Good receivers serve well as preamp duties and usually outgun most dedicated processors that cost over 2X more in terms of bass management, features, processing, etc...

Cost has little to do with performance of speaker cables. Measurements however do! Beyond a few $$$ per foot you are paying for cosmetics and NOT necessarily better performance.

There are no real advantages to flat cable other than potential space savings and a slight less problem with skin effect at much higher frequencies than audio is concerned. The down side of sandwiching two flat conductors in close proximity is ultra high capacitance which can wreck havoc on...

AV_Phile, perhaps you're jumping to conclusions again without knowing all the facts? WE are in the process of upgrading our servers for a 4th time this year to keep up with the increased traffic load. Hopefully this will be our last upgrade for a long time as the montly fees are becoming quite...

LOL, possibly. Amps and Receivers aren't getting any lighter these days and I aint quite as strong as I used to be :rolleyes:

Craig; We have all that info and more in our Cedia Coverage ;) I will be reviewing this bad boy :D

Don't forget Donald Fagen solos stuff like "Nightfly". If you're foot aint tapping to that, there is something wrong :)

Agreed. The test of any good music is if it can hold up with time. Steely Dan is a prime example it does. Very few bands from that era did b/c of their overuse of processed keyboard sounds (IE. ELP). BTW, Steely Dan was before my time too since I was just a child when their stuff came...

I couldn't agree with you more! I disagree. I think they were one of the best Jazz/Rock bands to grace the globe. Think about it: Steve Gadd, Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour - all of these guys are tremendous jazz musicians. They added lumps to jazz which is refreshing in todays lame smooth...

I purchased a Digital Sub 300 which was the 600 predeccesor back when I was a mere consumer. It had problems with the preamp clipping when input signal exceeded 1Vrms and the woofers would "double" when driven too hard making it sound like a helicopter. At the time they weren't familiarized...

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One of these days when I have a bigger support staff, I can dedicate more time to the cable stuff and do what you just say. I plan on taking all the data from faceoff II and generate frequency plots into 8 ohm loads. I also plan on measuring these cables response with a real amp and speaker...

Don't automatically assume separates will give you better sound than flagship receivers. In more cases than not, receivers in the same price class as separates alternatives offer superior processing, more usability, lower noise and in some cases better performance. While the AVR-5805 does...

I know the ranking system is a bit confusing and I too had discussions with Mudcat about this. Basically the higher the scoring# for the R,L,C rankings, the better the cable performed in this regard. (IE. A cable with the lowest resistance scored a 10 and the cable with the highest...

Charlie; The reason why we weighed capacitance so heavily was so that many of the high capacitance, exotic speaker cables would be penalized. Granted moderately high capacitance cable (50-100pf/ft) would have little effect on system frequency response, much higher capacitance cables (seems...

The measurements are directly responsible for the sonic signature a cable imposes on a particular system or the lack thereof with the preface that well designed cables are sonically indistinguishable. We don't discuss the subjective chocolately midrange performance of cables. We leave...