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    Receiver and Amp Power Ratings Over the Past 50 Years

    A surprise blast from the past Hi Gene- What a surprise to see Audioholics reprint one of my old articles. Thanks! Patrick Hart
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    Lexicon BD-30 Blu-ray Player (Oppo BDP-83 Clone) Review

    Cloned and rebadged: an insiders view In the eighties, because of the dictates of modern assembly lines and the necessity to buy huge quantities of resistors, capacitors, etc. from parts suppliers, the magic minimum number for Yamaha in Japan was 5000 pieces of any given CD player model. With...
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    Audyssey MultEQ Pro Sound Equalizer Review

    See why I seldom deign to participate on these forums Clint? Angry people resorting to personal attacks based on accusations they have no way of substantiating. Please let your other readers know that for the record I bought one of the very first Tact systems ever produced, to be used for...
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    Audyssey MultEQ Pro Sound Equalizer Review

    I'd suggest reading everything you can including Audyssey's White Paper and perhaps all the JAES, IEEE and JAS papers on the subject. The Audyssey system is a completed product which takes all sub-to-satellite crossover functions, "the splice", frequency and phase response, at the listening...
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    Better Sound Through EQ: A Primer to Audyssey MultEQ Pro

    Check out this book on Immersive Audio Signal Processing by two of Audyssey's co-founders. Or write to Chris Kyriakakis and ask if he can send the 11 articles he, Sunil and Phil have authored over the last few years on the math and thought processes which led to the Audyssey algorithms...
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    Better Sound Through EQ: A Primer to Audyssey MultEQ Pro

    Since the Audyssey Sound Equalizer is a very specialized product it is sold only through one distributor in each US market. To my knowledge all A/V specialist installers who purchase from these distributors have to agree, within the general purchase agreement required by the distributor, to not...
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    Audyssey MultEQ Pro Sound Equalizer Review

    If the Audyssey Sound Equalizer were also a complete pre-pro this funneling of information would of course be all done on the "correction" internal-to-the-software level. Other modifications might of course have to be made input switching-wise to such a pre-pro to accommodate this...
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    Audyssey MultEQ Pro Sound Equalizer Review

    I detailed the various MultEQ Pro screens in my review. If you are asking whether or not there is a "screen shot" similar to that of the Tact that is able to be manipulated the answer is no. There are, however, eight before and after screen shots (16 total) available at the end of the...
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    Audyssey MultEQ Pro Sound Equalizer Review

    Please let me know where you’ve found Audyssey “marketing that they are the first company to deal with time alignment”. The term “time alignment” has always been used in reference to the horizontal (x-axis) difference in the vertical (y-axis) alignment between various transducers on the...
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    Audyssey MultEQ Pro Sound Equalizer Review

    Singapore-Audyssey distributor set up Since the Audyssey Sound Equalizer is a very specialized product it is sold only through one distributor in each US market. To my knowledge all A/V specialist installers who purchase from these distributors have to agree, within the general purchase...
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    Belkin PF60 or APC H15?

    If you've been following my first two articles based on building a high performance/dollar system around the Audyssey Sound Equalizer you'll recall that I used the $99.95 TrippLite surge suppressor/battery back-up for my "starter-for-the-price-point" unit. The problem I have with the...
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    Better Sound Through EQ: A Primer to Audyssey MultEQ Pro

    Gee Gene- This is amazing. I write an extensive review which basically states if you want really realistic surround envelopment don't use ceiling speakers or high backed so called "home theater" seating and nothing. No comments. Does that mean everyone is in agreement? How about two...
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    Audyssey MultEQ Pro Sound Equalizer Review

    I think its highly doubtful.
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    Audyssey MultEQ Pro Sound Equalizer Review

    At CEDIA three other manufacturers announced products with Audyssey MultEQ Pro; Denon in their 5805CI, Crestron in their Adagio receiver and NAD in a stand alone piece. I also remember reading in one of the CEDIA dailies that Denon eventually intends to bring Audyssey MultEQ Pro down to their...
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    Audyssey MultEQ Pro Sound Equalizer Review

    To have the Audyssey MultEQ Pro Equalizer handle the crosovers and delays the unit itself would have to become a pre-pro. A pre-pro capable of taking for instance four channels of separate subwoofer frequency and phase information packets and funnelling that information back down to the single...
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    Audyssey MultEQ Pro Sound Equalizer Review

    Building a system around the ASEq I had a couple of goals in mind in doing this the first full review of the Audyssey Sound Equalizer. Please bear in mind- a) This piece of gear has to potentially control very large frequency and phase deviations that occur in the interim when electronic...
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    Changed the Room- New layout now

    With your corner-mounted subwoofer (which now has the potential of 18dB gain from its corner position) you will likely have the single bass peak shifted downward in frequency. Thus the height of your room is can be considered a plus. If the frequency of the peak does not go down to 35HZ or so...
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    Direction of Surround sound Speakers and Other placement

    I can only give you options not solutions: Try positioning the surrounds toward the listening position and up toward the ceiling. Play with the specific angle of ceiling-to-speaker as you listen from your sofa. If the sound is too localizable to the ceiling, and it may be, then simply aim...
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    Help with my speaker placement

    I'd suggest bringing your left front and right front down to the level of the center so that left-to-right pan effects sound coherent with what you see on the screen. For your surrounds which are a bit in front of you at those (only) 60 degree angles try pointing them back toward your kitchen to...
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    Boston Acoustics released 7.1 receiver & Pre-Amp /Amp

    I saw the prototypes of the Boston Acoustics receivers and pre-pro back in October at the EHX show in Long Beach. At the time I remember thinking how nicely styled Andy Katsanos' new electonics were and the fact that he had included a moving magnet phone pre-amp into all three pre-amp sections...
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