Hi, I'm in the process to build my first home theater and I decided to go with separates. I listen to about 60/40 home theater/2 channels music. I already have 2 Marantz MA-500 monoblocs that I want to keep to drive my surrounds. Yesterday, I bought 3 used Emotiva UPA-1 monoblocs. I got...

Hello, I am trying to make sure each individual speaker is looking as good as it can before combining all of them together. I took a measurement of my front, center speaker and this was the response. It looks like it drops off pretty dramatically on the higher end, but I don't know what to...

Sony is set to release a DVR add-on in Japan in March called the Torne, they also released one in Europe called PlayTV in 2008. So is Sony ready to release a version of the DVR add-on to North America we will have to wait and see. The Torne will let you earn trophies with one called "Master of...

OK, so the place where I bought a piece of gear has a credit coming to me! I have two options that I am weighing, but if it looks like I need to allocate the funds elsewhere, I am open to suggestions. I am thinking of either, Upgrading my receiver from the H/K AVR 154 5.1 to the H/K AVR 1600...

I apologize if this information is somewhere else... I've looked and read lots of information but haven't really seen these questions answered. I used REW and adjusted/calibrated a BFD1124 to improve my subwoofer by eliminating 1 big and 1 modest peak. I have a good graph with a house curve...

I just added my first subwoofer (Rythmik D15SE) to my system back in April – Wow what fun!! I have spent hours reading here at the Shack about measuring and equalizing (what a great resource!) – but I am a little overwhelmed and feel just a tad over my head! The room is a large Great Room –...

Just measured my 1st graph with my new sub, and need help interpreting it... The 2 plots show the sub almost in the right hand corner of the room (purple), and almost in the left hand corner of the room (blue). Room is 7m long by 4m width with a 1.25m width x2m length area taken out of the...