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Ah, well it sounds like it is going to be something used in computer graphic card connections to high res monitors. I am not so sure it will be added to the rear panel of A/V receivers anytime soon.
I have floorstanding speakers all around.I have a subwoofer powered by an external amp/crossover.
Perhaps two chances.....
Slim and none.
DisplayPort is a new connector that is attempting to replace the DVI connectors on our computer displays and the HDMI connectors on our HDTVs. It boasts a very wide bandwidth. I have attached a photo of what the connector looks like. It appears to...
I have not put the TV on the bench yet, but it looks good. The interpolation is much better than I have seen before with earlier models (other brands included). It looks very natural. Virtually no judder with panning. I think this is a big step fo...
I personally have not been able to tolerate smooth motion technology when it comes to films. We were on vacation and our house had a Blu-ray player and 120 Hz Samsung LCD, and as soon as we enabled the interpolation we couldn't stand the look. For...
How's the picture quality otherwise? Core picture performance, etc.? I've never been terribly impressed with Vizio, even for the money. But haven't looked at one critically in about a year or more.
I just received a Vizio 55" LED LCD HDTV. It uses small groups of LEDs for the backlighting to improve local contrast, which it does nicely. But the biggest thing is the smooth motion technology. This is Vizio's latest model, and it has a 240 Hz r...
Discuss your own custom installation project, with photos, or ask others for recommendations.
Hmmmmmm......I was thinking more along the lines of having some experts pen articles for Cosmoplitan or Architectural Digest with titles like:
Standing Waves and Cellulite: A Direct Correlation?
Bass Traps Also Eliminate Dust
Room Resonance Cause...
I was considering some wall treatments in the living room but had the WAF kick in and was going to need to find a way around that. Now, you can get pre-made ones from people like Auralex that will let you print out some artwork for the panel so th...
My living room does not have specific room treatment but a large throw rug under the furniture and curtains on the windows help a lot. Our upholstered furniture also does a pretty good job of minimizing reflection.
My home theater/living room is in desperate need of some room treatments as it is a reverbatorium. Hardwood floors, drywall, glass, and leather furniture. Not a damn thing to absorb any reflections, other than my dog. The problem for me is WAF/SAF...
I've heard them paired with either STAX or Woo Audio amps. You'll have to make sure the amp matches what you're looking for, because STAX cans have a very distinctive sound (including between the different models) and electrostatic amps are few an...
Somewhere on the web I saw an edited trailer for the new film '2012" with all special effects taken out. It was pretty comical. I totally agree with Jim's list of Overdone/Well Done films. I would add some of the graphic novel-inspired films like ...
I also made my own panels, from Owens 705 semi-rigid fiberglass. I have large 2 x 4' panel bass traps in both front corners, smaller panels behind the L/C/R speakers, large panels at first reflection points on the side and a smaller panel on a dro...
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- Tell us about your Home Theater
- As Editor-in-Chief of Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity, obviously I have a lot of stuff here in three different "Labs". One is a dedicated home theater with a projector, screen, processor, power amplifiers, seven speakers, and four subwoofers.
- Tell us about your Listening Room
- The listening room is set up for two-channel tests. I have two CD players, tube preamplifier and power amplifiers, and mangneplanar speakers there. The third lab is set up for just about anything I want to test, and we have an Audio Precision analyzer to help us with those tasks.
- Tell us about your equipment
- Too much equipment to list. But you can see it all in the photos on my page here at the CAVE.
- Tell us about you....job,hobbies,family,etc.
- My day job is editing a medical journal called Synapse, which is published by John Wiley in New York. I have been doing that for more than 20 years. I have a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, and I started out working at NIH (National Institutes of Health) in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1976 (after a Post-Doc at NASA, here in California), studying the aging nervous system using electron microscopes. Then, Synapse came along in 1987, and editing it became full time. We moved to California in 1989, and I started Secrets in 1994. I had actually been editing two medical journals at the time, one of which was Synapse, and the other was Microscopy Research and Technique. Secrets grew so large, I resigned my position as editor of the microscopy journal in 2002, and focused on making Secrets a success, while continuing to edit Synapse. Susan, my wife, retired about that same time, and realized that Secrets was getting to be huge, so she joined me in running the magazine, taking care of handling the products being requested for review. Cynthia was out of college, and she became the Marketing Manager, working with sponsors and advertising.
Back in 1987, editing was a process of receiving manuscripts by snail mail, sending hard copies to referees, getting the reviews back by snail mail, sending the reviews to the authors by snail mail, getting the revised manuscripts back to me by snail mail, and sending the revised, accepted manuscripts to New York, again by snail mail. These days, all manuscripts come to me by e-mail, and they can be in the hands of referees thousands of mile away within just a couple of minutes. I get the referees' comments by e-mail, send them to the authors, the authors send the revised manuscript to me by e-mail, and I accept it or reject it. If it is accepted, I notify the author and the Production Editor at Wiley that the manuscript is accepted, and the author sends the manuscript to them on a CD-R. The beautiful teak file cabinet that used to be filled with manuscripts being processed is now used by my wife as a sewing cabinet.
When I started Secrets, there were only about 4,000 websites in the world. I could have purchased all kinds of great domain names, but didn't realize how valuable they would turn out to be. I had considered publishing the magazine on paper, but the distributors wanted 50%, color reproduction was very expensive, and I could not control where the magazine might end up (in book stores or grocery stores, etc.). About that same time, INTERNET was on the cover of all the news magazines, and I decided to go totally electronic. In fact, Secrets was the first A/V magazine in the world to be published only in electronic form.
- Do you prefer MP3 or high definition audio?
- High Def all the way. I have several hundred SACDs and DVD-As, and my iPod has CDs that have been encoded losslessly.
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CEDIA Show Report - Day 3 - John Johnson
Most speakers have a large amount of stuffing inside to help dampen vibrations. Here is an example of a cutaway, showing that the enclosure is literally full of stuffing.… Continue
Posted on September 14, 2009 at 10:30am — 12 Comments
CEDIA Show Report - Day 2 - John Johnson
Posted on September 11, 2009 at 6:29am — 1 Comment
CEDIA Show Report - Day 1 - John Johnson
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Comment Wall (8 comments)
- At 10:58am on September 5, 2009,
vikrant shinde said… - hello sir forgot to tell u technically, the sub woofer unit what i got can deleiver 30Hz at 90db upto 10ft distance. i also loved one more thing u r using 4 sub woofers thats really best way to listen sound. as in each theatre there r 4 or 6 subwoofers.
- At 9:16am on July 3, 2009,
reyadh khamis said… - Hi John,
Thanks for your comment.
I have now moved to another house and currently in the process of building another hometheater room. I will submit more picture.
Regards
Riyadh
- At 8:57pm on July 1, 2009,
Adam Peach said… - The item on top of my sub is a special tuning device called a lamp....lol. No offence John from the look of it from my photo i would have asked the same thing.
- At 12:23pm on July 1, 2009,
Jim Milton said…
- Wow! Membership is going through the proverbial roof! Kudos to all who helped build this site....
- At 4:12pm on June 26, 2009,
Ed Mullen - SV Sound, LLC said… - Great, John - thanks for the follow-up.
- At 5:24pm on June 25, 2009,
Jean-Paul Lefebvre said…
- Since the day I sent you an email we have been slammed with orders...we have been doing nothing but shipping orders. I will bring it together by next week. Thanks for following up. Talk to you soon.
- At 9:57am on June 19, 2009,
Sumit Chawla said… - I guess I achieved celebrity status at the very least! I need to change the photo; I used the same one from my bio. Melissa does not like this one either. I also need to post pictures of my room.
- At 10:44am on June 4, 2009,
Fady khoury said… - Venice, Italy. In front of Da vinci's museum
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