I'm going back the other way, to glorious mono. I pulled a mid 50's vintage
Ampex console from my wife's grandparent's basement and am busily learning to
replace capacitors and selenium rectifiers. I has a stereo reel to reel tape
machine, which makes it one of the first stereo consoles available (Elvis
reportedly had one), but you can't find new reel to reel tapes anymore, so I
doubt I'll restore the old RtR. Two speakers, two amplifers but no stereo
source.
Dave
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:52:22 -0600
> From: derf247 at gmail.com
> To: lmacy at mac.com
> CC: spridgets at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Need a new TV - No LBC - No Dishwashers
>
> Most home theatre audio boxes nowadays have different modes, including
> A/B speaker outputs.
> I don't think mine will do mono but I can select stereo with sub or
> 5.1. Depending on how things are mixed sometimes stereo sounds
> better.
> There are also different modes that modify the matix decoding like
> "Game" or "Concert Hall".
> The Dolby ProLogic can sound very good, if the tracks were recorded
> properly. If you try to decode something that wasn't encoded, though,
> you might sometimes get garbage. Some of the old stuff sounds better
> in mono. Technically if you send mono to both L and R inputs you
> should get mono from L, C, and R outs, but sometimes you don't.
> I have three Klipsch up front, a custom made sub, and el-cheapo KLH
> surrounds. No one seems to make a decent small surround speaker that
> sounds any better than the cheap KLHs for a reasonable price. I think
> the KLHs were born to be bookshelf speakers. I tried several higher
> end name brand speakers as surrounds but none sounded any better, many
> were on par quality wise with the KLHs. I think KLH may have
> accidentally made a speaker with good range for surround use.
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