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Building a "Reference" Home Theater
An anonymous reader writes "FiringSquad has recently written a 14-page article on building a 'reference' home theater. They go through step-by-step and define all of the issues you need to think about when going with a new home theater setup. Exceptionally detailed but also easy to read."
One of these things is not like the other. One of these things does not belong.
The speakers themselves play little role in your sound system, so it's fine if you get ones so cheap. A real home theatre environment, however, depends entirely on $200 speaker cables. Good (= expensive) speaker cables can compensate for lesser stereo equipment, as well as for a small penis.
I don't know - Mr Wentworth just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble at the home theater, that's all
-mcgrew
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Audiophile smugness not included.
Shouldn't the 2-yr old be coding? At least making wallets or macrame key chains or something. Kids today have it so easy ;)
I hate to spark an argument, but I think the cable is actually far more important with digital than with analog. You can get a quite accurate representation of an analog audio signal at the far end of practically any conductor. Literally any wire will be a fairly good analog audio connector. But digital is different: with a digital signal the frequencies in transmission are much higher, and the signal is much more likely to be distorted or interfered with. The result is that the inter-edge arrival time will be distorted, and this, in turn, maps directly into harmonic distortion in the analog reproduction.
There are ways around this, including buffering and reclocking the digital signal at the receiver, but in general this step is not taken in consumer electronics. So you'll be well advised to spend a few dollars (not thousands) on a good piece of coax with BNC connectors, or another kind of good digital cable, if you plan to use a digital signal.
Optical isn't any better, because the optical receivers and transmitters are extremely sensitive to noise on their power supplies.
Yeah, because everybody knows that if the receiver is tilted, nothing is going to come out straight after that, no matter what angle you place your speakers at.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
But my wife complained about all the trash, rats, and sticky floor.
The key to any home stereo system is the gas its immersed in. For example, nitrous oxide provides much better bass response than say helium. Propane is also one of the better gases as its inexpensive.
Your ignorance on this topic is staggering. Consumer audio equipment uses the inter-symbol arrival time to drive its internal clock. That's why interference on the cable is bad. Distortion in the time domain maps directly into distortion in the frequency domain due to the digital-to-analog convergence.
Shit, I once took an article from 'Stereophile' to a physics professors at NYU so that he could explain to me what the terminology in a cable review/ad article meant. He told me that 90% of the terms they used, have no meaning whatsoever, in science.
I once took a porn mag to my biology professor and got told the same thing.
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