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“First you tried to blame w00t for your mistakes, and now you're attacking me for attempting to point it out in as non-insulting a way as I could. I'm sorry you feel the need to blame others for your shortcomings. Please, by all means: continue to lash out at me if it makes you feel better. But to continue your faux English lesson approach: Your error in grasping the English language occurred when you confused the word "allows" with the word "guarantees." See, in English, "allows" when used in this context means that something is possible; not that something is certain. You're welcome.”
permalink | posted in Denon 5.1 Channel A/V Receiver (Woots) | 2 months ago
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“Yes, Bose is second only to Monster Cable in terms of the passionate fury that they inspire for selling complete crap (in the case of Bose) or pedestrian, standard-quality product (in the case of Monster) for huge markups behind a marketing campaign that touts it as high-quality. When considering Bose, keep this in mind: They are the ones who introduced the world to the concept of cheap, plastic, lo-fi home theater systems consisting of crap mini-satellites that reproduce only high frequencies and a "subwoofer" that reproduces only mid-range (not bass or sub-bass) frequencies. All of those other crap HTIB systems copied themselves from Bose's original 5.1 system. Bose's success with these tinny little plastic crapboxes reminds me of something an audio engineer told me once. He said that he could spend hours setting up the sound for a show; he could use mics and banks of third-channel EQs to get the sound as flat as possible in as many parts of the hall as possible, or he could just spend two seconds to jack up the house board at 500 and 12k Hz, and get the same amount of satisfaction from the audience. You can bet that the sweet spot of every Bose HT speaker system's "subwoofer" is right at 500 Hz, and that the satellites shine at 12k.”
permalink | posted in Denon 5.1 Channel A/V Receiver (Woots) | 2 months ago
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“Here I'm thinking that the phrase "they didn't work" should be read as "I couldn't figure out how to make them work." A lot of those HTIB (or subwoofer-centralized speakers-only setups) use RCA or polarized molex-like connectors for the speakers; in order to connect them to a receiver, you'd have to cut off the connectors and strip the wires.”
permalink | posted in Denon 5.1 Channel A/V Receiver (Woots) | 2 months ago
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“Perhaps that seems reasonable to you, but not to me. When you read that, you apparently add the phrase "regardless of the individual source devices' output formats." I, however, append the phrase "if all of your individual output devices happen to support HDMI." It's normal for people to read what they want to hear into advertising copy, and one of the basic techniques of writing that copy is to lead the consumer into doing so. Those who never learn to read ad copy skeptically instead of hopefully -- and who can't research their purchases beyond reading said ad copy -- will always be doomed to buying products which do not do what they wished.”
permalink | posted in Denon 5.1 Channel A/V Receiver (Woots) | 2 months ago
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“Seems to be a couple of people asking this question today. * First of all, a receiver is a device which consists of three sub-components, all of which could be purchased separately if desired. (Don't worry; you don't desire this.) Those three components are, in order of signal flow: (1) an FM tuner, (2) a preamp, and (3) multiple amplifiers, or amps. * The tuner is an example of a signal source: it creates an unamplified (or low-level) signal, which is fed into the preamp, and then on to the amps. * Other examples of source devices include your DVD or Blu-Ray player, your TV, your cable/satellite tuner, or the headphone jack of a computer, or of an iPod or other music player. * The preamp sits between the source device and the amplifiers, where it performs signal processing duties on the low-level signal output by the source device. This includes many things, from the selection of which source device you wish to hear and view, to the sophisticated massaging of the audio signals in the digital domain, to the decoding of multi-channel theater soundtracks from Dolby or DTS-encoded discs and the steering and conversion of those soundtracks into multiple analog audio channels. One of its most important jobs is its simplest, and is embodied by the volume control on the receiver: the attenuation, or decreasing, of the volume level from the full-volume -- but still unamplified -- signal coming in from the source device. * The amplifiers (one per channel; left, right, center, surround left, etc.) perform one and only one task: they boost the unamplified signal coming out of the preamp stage up to a level where it can drive a speaker. * Speakers require amplified (or high-level) signal. The little plastic speakers you plug into your PC or laptop contain small amplifiers sufficient to drive the small speakers inside. However, home audio speakers do not contain their own amps. The exception to this rule is the subwoofer; consumer subs generally do contain their own amps, while receivers generally do not contain an amplifier for the subwoofer channel. So a 7.1 channel receiver will typically contain 7 amps: 6 for the front, rear, and side-fill left and right channels, and one for the center/dialog channel.”
permalink | posted in Denon 5.1 Channel A/V Receiver (Woots) | 2 months ago
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“I'm presuming that where you're seeing this imaginary attack on Medical Marijuana users is in the write-up? I'd advise you to read it again, keeping in mind that (a) the story is a joke and (b) the punchline of the joke is that the individual in question lives in a non-MM State -- and is growing opium.”
permalink | posted in Eden Mini Greenhouse (Home Woots) | 2 months ago
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“Not sure if you're serious, but AFAIK, no State with Medical Marijuana legislation allows certified recipients to grow their own. Getting certified as an authorized grower is a whole 'nother process, and you'd have to buy a whole bunch more than one (or three) of these to turn the quantity to cover the licensing and insurance costs. On second thought, I am sure whether you're serious. Never mind.”
permalink | posted in Eden Mini Greenhouse (Home Woots) | 2 months ago
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“Nope; this receiver, and all other surround-sound receivers, allows you to specify how many speakers you have, and changes the way it steers the sound to the various channels based on that specified speaker configuration. No center channel? No problem; center channel information will be sent to both the right and left front channels. No subwoofer? No problem; those low notes will also be sent to the front two channels, as well as optionally to the center channel speaker if you have configured it to be a bigger speaker with some low-note-reproduction capabilities. Whether anything is lost in the translation, then, is a theoretical No, but the real answer has to do with the quality of the steering logic, and the fidelity with which the decoder sections adhere to the relevant standards (Dolby, DTS, etc.). But since the only people who will claim to hear a difference would probably not be buying receivers in the first place, but separates instead.”
permalink | posted in Yamaha 5.1 Home Theater Speaker System with Powered Subwoofer (Woots) | 4 months ago
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“Short answer: No, your hi-def tv or blu-ray player does not act as a receiver, so yes, you do have to buy one. Longer answer: * First of all, a Receiver is a device which consists of three sub-components, all of which could be purchased separately if desired. (Don't worry; you don't desire this.) Those three components are, in order of signal flow: (1) an FM tuner, (2) a preamp, and (3) multiple amplifiers, or amps. * The tuner is an example of a signal source: it creates an unamplified (or low-level) signal, which is fed into the preamp, and then on to the amps. * Other examples of source devices include your DVD or Blu-Ray player, your TV, your cable/satellite tuner, or the headphone jack of a computer, or of an iPod or other music player. * The preamp sits between the source device and the amplifiers, where it performs signal processing duties on the low-level signal output by the source device. This includes many things, from the simple selection of which source device you wish to listen to, to the sophisticated massaging of the audio signals in the digital domain, to the decoding of multi-channel theater soundtracks from Dolby or DTS-encoded discs and the steering and conversion of those soundtracks into multiple analog audio channels. One of its most important jobs is its simplest, and is embodied by the volume control on the receiver: the attenuation, or decreasing, of the volume level from the full-volume signal coming in from the source device. * The amplifiers (one per channel; left, right, center, surround left, etc.) perform one and only one task: they boost the unamplified signal coming out of the preamp stage up to a level where it can drive a speaker. * Speakers require amplified (or high-level) signal. The little plastic speakers you plug into your PC or laptop contain small amplifiers sufficient to drive the small speakers inside. However, the speakers being sold here -- and all home audio speakers for that matter -- do not contain their own amps. The exception to this rule is the subwoofer; consumer subs generally do contain their own amps, while receivers generally do not contain an amplifier for the subwoofer channel. So a 7.1 channel receiver will typically contain 7 amps: 6 for the front, rear, and side-fill left and right channels, and one for the center/dialog channel. So you see that in order to hear the sound coming from your Blu-Ray player, the composite digital audio output from that player must be * Decoded into up to 8 separate channels, * Converted into the analog domain, and * Amplified up to a level sufficient to drive speakers. And these tasks are all performed by a Receiver. HTH!”
permalink | posted in Yamaha 5.1 Home Theater Speaker System with Powered Subwoofer (Woots) | 4 months ago
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“unksol, I found d3nnis's post to be easily understandable, while you, apparently did not, and insulted him due to that apparent lack of comprehension -- as well as an equally apparent intolerance for perfectly understandable abbreviations. Said intolerance is not just silly, but in your case also ironic, given that your writing skills (in spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure) are far, far worse than those of which you accuse d3nnis of displaying. D3nnis was commenting on how these speakers are so inefficient that he has to crank the volume up quite high on his receiver; so high, in fact, that the volume display gets out of the negative dB range and into the positive, where he had never ventured with previous speakers. You appear to be unfamiliar with the meaning or implication of a preamp which ranges from negative to positive dB output as a way of indicating the degree of attenuation or amplification being applied to the input signal in the preamp stage, but your range of experience is not, it would appear, quite so broad as you may think. Now, d3nnis's complaint about frequent volume changes being required with these speakers seems a bit odd; for one thing, he's complaining about something that is generally considered good: increased dynamic range. For another thing, this would generally be a property of the pre-amplifier stages -- either signal source, processor/decoder, or preamp -- and not likely the result of the speakers in use. Perhaps it's because he is loathe to turn the amp up due to the aforementioned speaker efficiency issue? EDIT: I just saw more of unksol's posts and some responses to them, and I now see that he is a Wakkoic troll, issuing incorrect "advice" in a condescending, insulting manner. I apologize for feeding the troll -- although given the time it took me to type my response above, I am too selfish to delete it.”
permalink | posted in Yamaha 5.1 Home Theater Speaker System with Powered Subwoofer (Woots) | 4 months ago
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