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  1. IEales

    A bit about your host....

    Your post is nearly identical to my reason for joining. The reviews are great from a technical standpoint. Many of the members tend to be pretty dogmatic and just because they or some double-blind test said it ain't so, it ain't. NO EXCEPTIONS for exceptional people...
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    David Chesky on Streaming Convenience vs Sound Quality

    Currently doing similar for a local church trying to get from abysmal to tolerable on the live stream...
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    Outlaw 2220 Review (Monoblock Amplifier)

    Manual says 122dB - A weighted. I can hear ZERO on the 84dB woofers driven by the M2220s. Room is ≈37dB ambient.
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    David Chesky on Streaming Convenience vs Sound Quality

    Churches were meant to inspire and overwhelm. A massed choir or massive pipe organ is a joke by comparison on almost any HiFi.
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    Outlaw 2220 Review (Monoblock Amplifier)

    My 2019 manual and the one currently online say: Input Sensitivity 1.6 Volts 8 ohm load/1.4Volts 4 ohm load
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    A bi-wiring question, but NOT what you think (I hope)...

    Never seen or read about one.
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    David Chesky on Streaming Convenience vs Sound Quality

    An attitude like that explains why modern music is circling the bowl
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    RCA and XLR shorting caps...whats the deal with those?

    More like this: Gold Short Caps I'm not much for bling... "As Simple as Possible and No Simpler" ...the missus has often said I'm boring :cool:
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    RCA and XLR shorting caps...whats the deal with those?

    Analog inputs are safe to back short - w 600Ω for phantom powered mic. Digital inputs likely won't benefit, but I never tried. If I had a TosLinks with busted doors, I'd probably tape them over or insert a dummy but that's probably over the top.
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    RCA and XLR shorting caps...whats the deal with those?

    It's always been my contention that everything you can do to minimize non-program noise increases the realism. In our wired world, there are innumerable radio frequencies buzzing around. Sometimes they create interference signals that frequency modulate. Hook your pre-amp up to a distortion...
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    Heated Garage?

    I found this most informative Empirical Study of the Effect of Thermal Loading on the Heating Efficiency of Variable-Speed Air Source Heat Pumps
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    RCA and XLR shorting caps...whats the deal with those?

    Well done! When I was @ AMS-Neve we experimented with adding noise and distortion @ the -16bit level on 20bit audio and 24 & 32 bit processors. Not everyone could hear it, but some could. The perceived change depended odd or even distortion.
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    David Chesky on Streaming Convenience vs Sound Quality

    CD65 for one. Our favorite 1812. The cannon are real. The Moldau will make you weep. We have many Chesky CDs, not because of technical aspects, but because of the performances.
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    It (almost) never sounds bad!

    Just for grins I ripped a couple of CD tracks [one I engineered and another fav I didn't] into four files: WAV, WMA 9.2 and AAC 250 and 500 Variable Bit Rates. It took about four or five passes to be able to reliably determine which encoder was used as they all process with differences. Once...
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    Heated Garage?

    We live in Florence Oregon. Our media room is above the triple garage. Garage doors are held against the weather seal with Green Hinge System. Our winter temperature averages and La Guardia Temperatures are a little colder. We use two 600w oil filled heaters to maintain the garage temperature...
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    It (almost) never sounds bad!

    When younger and technology was less capable, I could not listen to lossy encoded music in other than mono. It literally made me nauseous. Sometimes I had to ask the host to change the source, make it mono or turn it off. Sometimes I had to leave. Unlike what some claim, we don't all hear the...
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    Need to set delay on subs or everything?

    Quick comment: Forget the laser meter and measure with REW. The sub may fool you as to where the sound originates. Additionally, it's a doddle with REW. Just be sure to place your microphone AT YOUR EAR LOCATION!! 10µs is the miniDSP limit, so you might have to compromise a bit selecting the...
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    RCA and XLR shorting caps...whats the deal with those?

    FWIW, when I had analog front end with mechanical switches and level controls, I back-shorted all unused inputs and regularly exercised the switches and pots. Some studios had an 2nd engineer do the same to pots and switches regularly to find any failing parts before the paying customer.
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    RCA and XLR shorting caps...whats the deal with those?

    Not sure what you are getting at. If it's quieter with inputs shorted, why not? Acid test for any studio is all used channels at 0dB and monitors on S T U N. Anything but thermal rush is unacceptable.
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    RCA and XLR shorting caps...whats the deal with those?

    -3dB overall, but -20dB @ mains 50Hz About 15 to 20db less @ mains Hz and harmonics with the inputs shorted. Not a problem with analog tape but might cause some issues on 20- or 24-bit sampling adding just enough level to cause some artifacts. A 96- or 128-input console would build the level a...
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