Scott Dolan

Also, concerning those Pioneer speakers, how often do you see mass market, inexpensive stereo speakers with a 6 ohm impedence?

Man, everyone RAVES about those Pioneers, don't they? I don't need any bookshelf speakers right now, but I've been half tempted to get a pair just to see what all the fuss is about. You should have read the rave reviews of the previous model. You would have thought they were tower speakers. Yeah, I actually was referring to the previous model. Hadn't noticed your link was to the new ones. I think Guttenberg might have been the first to gush over them, but then the flood gates opened.

Depends on how patient you are, GA. If you're willing to wait a couple of minutes for the video to load and buffer than you could conceivably drop down to anything from 756 on up. If you want to reliably stream as soon as you click on it, I wouldn't go any lower than 3GB. A lot of it has to do with their servers as well. We have 10GB high-speed, and even we experience the odd problem or two with them.

Man, everyone RAVES about those Pioneers, don't they? I don't need any bookshelf speakers right now, but I've been half tempted to get a pair just to see what all the fuss is about.

Oh, so you're coverting them to .wav What about making lossless copies and saving them to an external hard drive? Hell, with the size hard drives you can get now you could even back up the .wav files without much problem.

Thanks for the explanation, Bebop. I understand now. How did your LS50's work out? Cool. What format are you saving them to?

I guess I'm missing something. Wouldn't any two-way bookshelf speaker essentially be a clone?

Don't sweat it. Soulpope makes up for it by not listing any speakers under $500.

In order: PSB Speakers Image B5: http://www.crutchfield.com/p_760IMGB5B/PSB-Image-B5-Black-Ash.html?tp=186&awkw=25288862305&awat=pla&awnw=g&awcr=6488483185&awdv=c Wharfedale Diamond 10.2: http://www.crutchfield.com/p_760IMGB5B/PSB-Image-B5-Black-Ash.html?tp=186&awkw=25288862305&awat=pla&awnw=g&awcr=6488483185&awdv=c Hard to find, but pretty amazing for the money, Polk Audio RTi4: http://www.amazon.com/Polk-Audio-Performance-Bookshelf-Speakers/dp/B0000E2XEB Actually, I've yet to hear any Polk Audio bookshelf speaker in the $200-400 range that didn't sound wonderful. I still have two different sets of them around my house to this day.

I think you meant "Only HDMI output is available on the Roku 3". HDMI output is also available on the earlier (Roku 2, etc.) models, but those also have composite video outputs as well for analog TVs. A wi-fi network is preferable but not required for the Roku 3, as it has an Ethernet port, so it's possible to connect it to a router using a standard Cat5 cable. AHA! I had forgotten about the ethernet port! Thanks for the correction, Dave.

The Roku would work just fine, but the only thing you'd be able to do with it would be to stream pictures or music from your smart phone, if you have one. Aside from that without wi-fi you'll have yourself a nice paper weight. Wi-fi routers are fairly inexpensive these days, though.

Yeah, no matter the screen size, higher resolution is always the way to go. And 1080p is so relatively inexpensive these days, there's really no reason to bother with 720 anymore.

Excellent articles, Dave! I'd heard nothing but rave reviews of the powered Audioengine speakers (mostly the A5's), but had never heard of M-Audio before. Good to know.

Lucky, and lucky. In that order. Unfortunately, I know exactly what Hardbop is talking about. Fortunately, I haven't listened to a cassette in the last two decades. Bleed-through could be a real bastard with those suckers. And yes, it was real my friends...

Are the PSB's what you recent purchased to use for mixing? Were they not adequate?

Yeah, it's pretty incredible. That's about as high an efficiency as you'll see in a loudspeaker. It means they are super easy to drive. Usually speakers average somewhere around 90dB. My Dynaudio X12's, for example, have a sensitivity of 86dB.

I don't, but I've never heard anything bad about Tascam equipment. Just curious, do you not have a CD-R on your computer?

Sensitivity 100 dB!!! Holy shit!

I beg your pardon, ALA, but all music is holy writ, so sayeth Reverend Young. Which is exactly why he has been sent to save us all from the abomination of CD sound. The Koolaid is quite refreshing on a hot summer day.

iTunes brings up all possible titles/releases if multiple ones exist. Not sure if I can change the settings or not.

Sorry, Tom. I removed them from my Facebook page because I don't do FB anymore. I had forgotten I linked them here. I'll reload them to the site when I get home.

Right, but in that case you'd get multiple titles to select from. And if he didn't get that... I remember ripping The Beatles box set. Good god, there were at least four titles to choose from for each disc. Even one in Japanese script!

Hahahaha..., thanks. That IS pretty clever. And quite the tongue twister forwards. I remember the first time I saw it I sat there for a minute or two trying to figure out how to pronounce it.

I've always wondered what his username meant...

And those unheard before! Only by sound engineers in the studio before they ruin it!