You all bunch of noobs, if you really want to VU-meter your system, don't waste your time in minimalist decoration and go the @dualazmak way
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Multi-Channel, Multi-Amplifier Audio System Using Software Crossover and Multichannel-DAC
Why would this thread not be pinned?audiosciencereview.com
PS: which also shows that in a multichannel system it can be even useful
Hello @MCH and @Holdt,Haha! @dualazmak you are awesome!
Hello @Kimbrough Xu,So beautiful!
Looks really big VU meters. And there is no any impact on the setups.
What a proYou all bunch of noobs, if you really want to VU-meter your system, don't waste your time in minimalist decoration and go the @dualazmak way
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Multi-Channel, Multi-Amplifier Audio System Using Software Crossover and Multichannel-DAC
Why would this thread not be pinned?audiosciencereview.com
PS: which also shows that in a multichannel system it can be even useful
Exactly. If it was 43 cm. std. I'd buy it to stand on top of my amplifier. Shame really, as it checks all the boxes.Shame only it is not standard 43 cm Hifi component width, I guess I am already too old for this audio market.
I am a little bit confused here about human rationality too .
Does music sound better with VU-meters?
Everyone here so far seems happy to spend USD 160 + for 2 dancing needles in front of an colored light. How rational or objective is that?
What is the benefit? Besides a feedback on output, which I guess you could have much cheaper.
I’ll light a xmas candle instead (I know i am cheap).
Enjoy and have fun anyway,
Well "hearing" is complicated. The psychoacoustic enjoyment certainly can be improved by VU-meters or a pair of felt slippers in December or a high price badge on the amp for some people respectively. Take your pick.Does music sound better with VU-meters?
You could always use one on a smartphone or tablet, or do you mean one wired to the speaker cables?Now we need to find a real useful and good to look at Spectrum Analyzer. Thonman used to have one no longer offered.
So the Mic on the front is a light which when on means the microphone in the back is driving the display levels rather than line levels on the speakers. So an SPL driven mode apparently. You could use that and not even connect it to anything else I suppose.
Someone posted a color show on youtube for it.Set the LEDs for blue and put a McIntosh label on it!
yes, or to different speakers to the same amplifier, or to sets of speakers to two different amps. The point would be to easily compare different setups or to have different setups based on program material. Compared to simpler implementations of the same idea, this one has a remote control, which is nice. The VU-meter is just for show and nostalgia.Do I understand it correctly - can this device be used for connecting two different amplifiers to the same speakers?