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Hungryjack posted:I hate it when I'm watching TV in the front room and my wife is in bed because I'm trying to hear dialogue on the center channel and then someone gets shot or an engine revs and the whole house shakes because I have to have the volume jacked up. or else it gets too quiet to hear the dialogue that is coming out of the center channel. Then my wife gets pissed and bitches at me to come to bed, but I don't want to come to bed. I want to watch TV. A nice pair of 5.1 headphones may be worth looking at. I think Sennhesier may have some nice ones that are also wireless. Such as the RS130 https://www.sennheiserusa.com. Becareful because the headphones are not closed back and will bleed out sound, but it won't be as loud as your surround sound system. There is also a set of wired surround sound headphones that support digital coax and optical audio. They are made more for computers and console gamers but I've heard nothing but good reviews. http://www.trittontechnologies.com/products/TRIGA600.htm
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Anti-Hero posted:I'm looking at a car charger dock for my Ipod. I see alot of good ones with built-in FM tuners but I don't need that since my audio deck has a aux out. I found this one on the BB website http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8231656&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat108500050015&id=1168042838908 which looks good but I am unfamiliar with the brand. Anyone got any recommendations? Check out http://www.proclipusa.com/home/home.aspx a useful site for mounting all sorts of gadgets in your car.
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pennywise969 posted:Okay, so I want to stay away from HTiBs. I have a friend who has given me a fairly new pioneer receiver. What about speaker systems like this one? If you're only going to watch movies on this system and space is limited, then that wouldn't be a bad way to go. However, if you plan on listening to music at all through your receiver stay away from speaker setup's with small satellites. They have bad business all over them. The problem comes in with how these speakers handle the range of sound we can hear. Humans hear on a range of 20hz to 20khz. Bass at 20 hz is more of a rumble than a sound. Bass at 50hz-80hz is the nice punchy bass you get from drums and such. Those little satellites can't support any midbass. The most than can down to is probably 200 hz or so. That means the sub has to be tuned to play up to 200hz to be able to play the full range. A sub just doesn't sound good at 200hz, it sounds buzzy. Even if a sub and a full ranger speaker can both play a 100 hz tone, that tone is going to sound different depending on which speaker is playing it. You want to look at speaker sets that have woofer that can play a fuller range. That means a 5 inch woofer minimal in my opinion. I've yet to do this myself, but you could go to pawn shops and buy an older set of speakers for cheap. Then swing by https://www.zaphaudio.com and replace the individual speakers as they go out with MUCH better speakers, better than what you would find in the store. That way you don't have to fabricate anything, just replace same size speaker with same size speaker. The only thing you would have to pay attention to is a crossover. A tweeter is a small speaker meant to play the upper range of hearing, so 20khz to 2000hz or so. If you send a bass singal at that tweeter, 200 hz or so, it will damage the tweeter. A crossover sends high sounds to the tweeter, and low sounds to the woofer, and cuts out low low sounds completely so the sub can play them.
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Anyone got a recommendation for a cheap, small stereo amp with a sub preout? Everything I look at is the size of a home theater receiver or people are asking silly money for not much power output. I would also like an optical input if at all possible.
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Hob_Gadling posted:How about this one? NICE, that's awesome. Only thing is I got a powered sub. But I do have an old car audio sub that's an 8" inch 8ohm sub that might go nicely with that amp. Thanks for the find.
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Hob_Gadling posted:Check out the other Lepai amps. Depending on what inputs your sub has, you might find something better suited. How about this? Okay I'm pretty sure that last one is a just a car headunit with an AC power supply stuffed in the case. That's pretty awesome.
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