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Powered monitors of some sort that also have bt and/or wifi built in perhaps? I would peruse shady's and Erin's reviews of such speakers. I think Erin favorably reviewed the Klipsch Nines, for example. Or maybe you could piece something together more inexpensively, e.g. some JBL308P and an...

Not really. Nor does it indicate any sort of flaw, merely the competing design goals that Paradigm was juggling when developing this thing. They did a good job, and you are the beneficiary. Enjoy it!

The specs I saw were for the v6 iteration. There have been so many versions that it doesn't help with the confusion. Also, sensitivity wasn't specified in volts but rather watts, and given it's 4 ohm impedance, subtract 3db and we see what Sound and Vision measured. It's still a sensitive...

A cursory search indicates a sensitivity for the CC-390 of 97db (Wow!). Clearly, this reveals that the bass drivers were engineered towards the sensitive end of the spectrum. The engineering trade offs favoring sensitivity (smaller magnetic gaps, lighter cones, stiffer suspensions, lower...

That's not a huge room. If you pick the Revels, the Yamaha that TLS linked would be a good match, both power and features.

I stand corrected. That would check all of the boxes on the OP's list.

While I like that more than the rs501 he was looking at before, it too lacks full bass management/hpf for the mains that the OP wants.

The minidsp piece is nice, but gets a premium for Dirac room correction. Do they offer a version without Dirac? (Good speakers, which those Revels and KEF models are, are unlikely to benefit from "room correction" eq.) Unfortunately, stereo kit with bass management is a niche market. If you...

Given the limits of the sub and integrated amp you've chosen, that's your only option.

That's a banger of a post, @PENG quite thorough! @adrhc read that, and read it again. In fact reread all of PENG's posts until the tetris pieces of understanding fall into place. That's not totally bonkers, as it happens all the time. The vast majority of consumer power amps lack any sort of...

Yeah, a db scale volume control can be pretty accurate, but only after calibration (e.g. running Audyssey, etc, or doing measurements and tweaking trims manually), but without such calibration they are rather arbitrary.

Well, I'm bored at work so I'll play along. You have described two pairs of speakers with different sensitivities. Of course they will produce different spls using the same volume setting. (Similarly, if you wanted to match spls, the more sensitive speaker will require a lower volume setting.)...

A pretty good guestimate can be had via tools like this: http://www.hometheaterengineering.com/splcalculator.html Plug the data of the Revels into that and see what you get. I did, using 85db/w, 10' distance, and 50w, and the results were just under 95db. That would work fine (for me) in the...

Amps can deliver more than their rated power. The problem is that the distortion rises dramatically under such conditions, and *that's* what should be avoided. So a hypothetical 50w amp should be used if and only if you'll never exceed 50w at your most spirited listening levels.

It may not be terribly audible, but running the source output low and the amp volume high would inevitably suffer a worse S/N than if you turn up the source and use low volume settings on the amp.

I'll second Mr. Boat's rather practical "too much is just enough" and "use responsibly" approach.

The pipe analogy is crude. You should investigate "gain staging" in the correct terms. An amp may become underpowered if you turn the volume up (open the valve on the pipe) higher than the amp can deliver. That depends on speaker sensitivity and desired listening levels. If you want the...

Dynamic eq is just loudness compensation. Sports simply has too much going on with rear channels, and changing DEQ settings won't fix that.

Agreed w/ the others, sports are a real mess compared to a movie or other more appropriately produced content. Hilarious typo in thread title. I was expecting something far more demonic.

What state are you in, @j_garcia ?