Banned at AVSForum

[Dylan Seeger]

If you want to really fall down a rabbit hole start designing and building speakers!

I am currently measuring and designing crossovers for my new 194cm tall towers.

Banned at AVSForum

While I consider myself handy, I don't think I have the patience or skills to make my own speakers. If I were making speakers for home theater (in a dark room) that would be one thing, but a 2-channel setup is going to be on display in a bright room at all times so I want speakers that look aesthetically pleasing. I'm just not up to the task for that. I really like my JTR Triple 8's for LCR, single 8's for surrounds and Danley DTS-10 subwoofer setup I have in the theater, but those speakers really aren't meant for 2-channel audio.

My current 2-channel setup consists of:

Tidal HiFi and FLAC audio streamed via UPnP over my network to a Sonore Signature Series Rendu audio renderer which feeds my PS Audio Directstream DAC via I²S over an AudioQuest Pearl HDMI cable. From there the Directstream feeds a Parasound Halo A21 amp via Mogami Gold balanced XLR cables. The amp feeds a pair of Monitor Audio Gold GX50 speakers. I then have a pair of Bowers & Wilkins PV1D subwoofers (one for each channel) that are fed by the unbalanced RCA outs from the Direststream. Those I have set to low pass at 60hz. As far as fully digital systems go it sounds pretty amazing. I feel you'd need to spend an order of magnitude more on equipment to get a decent step up in overall sound quality. I would say the weakest link in my system currently is my room, but I hope to remedy that with some diffusers and bass traps down the road.

[AVSMike]

Oh but Mike, you forget, I have many TV's in the house, many opportunities for speakers...

The wife goes, lets get a TV in the kitchen, I think, cool, I'll build a 5.1 system for it.

Possibilities possibilities.

I definitely think I am close to the point where as for my theatre, adding/changing anything in the 7 channel soundbed is going to just be completely obnoxious. The Atmos speakers though, I have big plans there, and I am not fully happy with that yet.

I just added something simple to my HT, voice control.

[darinp]

I'm not sure if he is on this forum, but HighJinx on AVS is one of those people who claims to understand things where he is much closer to clueless. Just like everybody else, I have subjects that I don't know much about, but I don't go around acting like I understand them.

Just one more person on the list of those who don't take responsibility for their false claims on AVS who get help from the mods, IMO.

Maybe Ruined, HighJinx, and roxiedog13 should get together. They could BS each other to death. Although, I think roxiedog13 might be finally posting less BS than he used to.

--Darin

[AVSCraig]

I just added something simple to my HT, voice control.

Oh crap, if I added that to my theater, my wife would be telling it to turn down the volumn ! 

[Stereodude]

Oh crap, if I added that to my theater, my wife would be telling it to turn down the volumn ! 

You don't have it turned up so loud that it has no hope of hearing her?

[rob-houston]

Don't normally go to the bottom of a page in the forums at avsform. I usually stop at the last post and exit or go to the next page if it exists.

Saw this at the bottom:

 "AVSForum.com is an independent audio visual enthusiast website. AVSForum.com is not sponsored by or in any way affiliated with AV Science Inc."

They sure are making it difficult to like their forum. I quit signing in about a year ago. With Scotts pod casts gone there's little reason to go there other than to read a whole lot of off topic posts and/or watch pissing matches!   

[AVSCraig]

You don't have it turned up so loud that it has no hope of hearing her?

If I were to do that I'd have no hope of getting " lucky " after the movie.    Sometimes you have to compromise a little!

[AVSMike]

Don't normally go to the bottom of a page in the forums at avsform. I usually stop at the last post and exit or go to the next page if it exists.

Saw this at the bottom:

 "AVSForum.com is an independent audio visual enthusiast website. AVSForum.com is not sponsored by or in any way affiliated with AV Science Inc."

They sure are making it difficult to like their forum. I quit signing in about a year ago. With Scotts pod casts gone there's little reason to go there other than to read a whole lot of off topic posts and/or watch pissing matches!   

More and more keep coming over. Would love to see more of the long term posters over here.

[Dylan Seeger]

Did Scott get the boot? I didn't realize he wasn't doing his podcast anymore. I always thought he was a bit of a quirky guy.

[ericglo]

More and more keep coming over. Would love to see more of the long term posters over here.

I have got emails out to Runt, AMartin and Roxie. Scaneramax said he wants his own sub forum entitled "Your not rich enough."

Did Scott get the boot? I didn't realize he wasn't doing his podcast anymore. I always thought he was a bit of a quirky guy.

He was doing the podcast before VS hired him and it was independent of the forum. Leo canceled the podcast, but I think Scott still does a segment on one of the other podcasts. It didn't seem like he did a lot of ads on the podcast, so I guess it wasn't bringing in a lot of money. Probably better to go the Patreon route.

As for him and VS, who knows what deal he has there. I don't think he has anything else going on, so I would guess he will try to hold on to that gig.

[Dylan Seeger]

I have got emails out to Runt, AMartin and Roxie. Scaneramax said he wants his own sub forum entitled "Your not rich enough."

He was doing the podcast before VS hired him and it was independent of the forum. Leo canceled the podcast, but I think Scott still does a segment on one of the other podcasts. It didn't seem like he did a lot of ads on the podcast, so I guess it wasn't bringing in a lot of money. Probably better to go the Patreon route.

As for him and VS, who knows what deal he has there. I don't think he has anything else going on, so I would guess he will try to hold on to that gig.

I don't know if he brings anything useful to the site other than clicks. But I suppose that's why they hired him. I just feel he only has superficial 3rd person knowledge. This is the kind of knowledge that anyone reading the forum frequently could glean and regurgitate. I've never seen him truthfully engage anyone on the forum before or delve deep into any of the topics he discusses. If he has, I must have missed it. His second in command, Mark, seems like the real deal however.

[Peter Parker]

Scott may have been a quirky guy, but I liked it because of the guests he had and the knowledge they would share. It's a shame that they stopped it because it was usually fact based rather than a lot of the nonsense that seems to prevail over there these days.

It's a completely different forum to the one I joined back in 2000, and just seems like it's constant drama and in-fighting over there now.

[AVSMike]

Scott may have been a quirky guy, but I liked it because of the guests he had and the knowledge they would share. It's a shame that they stopped it because it was usually fact based rather than a lot of the nonsense that seems to prevail over there these days.

It's a completely different forum to the one I joined back in 2000, and just seems like it's constant drama and in-fighting over there now.

He did have a lot of knowledgeable guests on his show. Usually was quite informative.

[rob-houston]

Did you see the gratuitous Sony "SPONSORED POST": "Big Game, Big Screen Sony Projectors Buyers Guide" posted by admin?! 

I wonder would they accept a similar deal with JVC!! 

[Baseball0618]

Did you see the gratuitous Sony "SPONSORED POST": "Big Game, Big Screen Sony Projectors Buyers Guide" posted by admin?! 

I wonder would they accept a similar deal with JVC!! 

I saw it yesterday and immediately starting laughing.