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I was hoping for a holodeck, but I'd settle for VR. :D Chris

We still have one of these old, large CRT sets. It has a great picture, we got it in the late 1990s, and we hope it lasts many more years. When it dies, we'll get a modern flat-panel set, of course. In the meantime, we love what we have. That said, if a DVD gives us a choice between...

We've bought lots of stuff from Amazon, and have never had a problem. This includes purchases from Amazon Marketplace vendors selling used merchandise. No worries with Amazon. Oh, and I love the user reviews, too. Chris

LOL--feel free! Do you wanna know what the kicker is? My gf is a science professor at a big university with a dual appointment in microbiology and biochemistry. I'll have to tell her about my typo. Maybe she can work my new word into a speech she gives some day. ;) Chris

Best of luck with the surgery and the recovery! Chris

We recently had a fairly small basement flood that came out of a floor drain. When I found it, I was sure it was sewer stuff, based on the smell. Nope, some drian line clogged and it was built-up kitchen sink drainage that finally found its way out of the basement floor drain. The plumber said...

That's just GREAT! Chris

Just got a music DVD, not a CD Not a CD, but a 5.1 music DVD: "DVD Space Spectacular," by the Dallas Symphony, designed to show off a good 5.1 system. It has Strauss's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" and Holst's "The Planets."* *Though I love classical music and even have a degree in it, I'm no...

I like how you think! :D Chris

croseiv gave you a great answer. I'll just add, though, that while a 32 Hz note is low, it might not be as low as you think. Any piano with 88 keys (that's almost all pianos) goes lower. Various tunings aside, the lowest key of a piano sounds at 27.5 Hz. That's an "A" four octaves below the...

Good answer, croseiv. I wrote a piece for pipe organ as part of my music degree. Chris

No, I can't get a second sub now; I have no room for it. That'll have to wait until we move in a few years. There's no question your Ultra is super with its 13-incher. In fact, according to CraigSub's list, it outperforms my 15-inch MFW-15. I came very close to getting the Ultra, but in the...

I forgot to mention that I haven't seen this movie. My gf doesn't want to see it, even though she liked Robert Downey. She has an out of town trip next month, so I'll probably rent it then and watch it. I might invite a friend to come over to share. Chris

I can understand the extra headroom comment. After all, I recently boght a good external 200-watt, 7-ch amp to run my system, freeing my AVR to only do pre/pro duty. But even when I run loud music or a loud movie*, my sub runs nowhere near its capacity. At least I think it doesn't. :) *...

OK, sorry, I have to ask: what do two Ultra-13s give you that one Ultra-13 turned higher wouldn't give? I'm asking because your room doesn't look too wide. I realize that it might be really deep and then open to other rooms, thus loosing subwoofer SPL. If the ceiling is high, I'd understand...

croseiv, I just looked at the links in your sig. Are those two PB-13 Ultras? Wow! May I ask? How do you have them set in relation to the SPL of the rest of your system? Chris P.S. When I bought a new sub this year, my final choice came down to the MFW-15 and the PB13-Ultra. I chose...

Thanks for the info. I guess my RS meter, my AVR's test tones, wanting the sub a little hot but not too hot, and our ears' perception of low-freq SPLs even out, huh? That's almost too easy. :p Chris

I was going to post this in the ongoing sub/SPL thread (http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50692), but decided to start a new thread, instead. OK, I'm confused again. Let me get one dumb thing I recently wrote out of the way: I said I'd try to see what freq my AVR...

I like to think that I'm a smart guy. :p I'm a fast learner. :) I always enjoy reading WmAx's posts because I know that I'll never know as much about audio as he does. I've learned a LOT by reading his posts, but I'll never be more than an audio hobbiest. He certainly recommends good...

Good, I wasn't too far off at the top of the subwoofer range. :p (I have my speakers crossed at 80 Hz.) But a 7.5 dB difference at 20 Hz? Wow, that's a lot. I'll have to find my Rives disc and recalibrate the sub. Yup. I think my sub has enough guts to take it, though--after all, it's...