Recent content by Benedict_Arnold

If you only ever want 5.? surround it would be worthwhile looking at the Marantz "slimline" range, e.g NR-1507, 1508 (both 5.2), 1607 and 1608 (7.2). All of these should still be available as new, left-over, stock, as Marantz recently brought out its 1509/1609 models. I recently bought a brand...

You'll probably find that a lot of the original animation is done at even lower resolutions until they get the sequence right, then re-rendered at 2K and 4K once they're happy. BTW back in the day.... Do you remember "Babylon5" from the 90s? All of that kind of pioneering CGI was done on...

"4K" TV's are actually 3840 x 2160, which is four times the old 1920 x 1080 resolution. A full 4K picture is 4096 x 2180. So you're loosing a strip down each edge rather than any height. 4096-3840 is 256 pixels or 128 per side, or about 6% of the screen width, 3% per side. Some PC's will...

Oh dear. Looks like I started another one. Oh well. World Cup starts again in about 3 years and eleven months ...

I think I'm married to his sister...

^ Meh. Star Trek TNG holosuites or nowt!

Update: Set the receiver for "small" fronts and the LFE crossover at 80 Hz and all the boxiness has gone. Very pleased now.

I usually ensure my equipment has those screw-down type terminals ;-) BTW old Chinese audiophile proverb: Confusious the Hifi Buff say: If want hifi make smile on face, listen with coathanger in mouth

My name is Prince Oliver RhubarbundCustard Umbongo of Nigeria. I will take six hundred units. Further orders may follow. In order to get these through US Customs, however, you will need to send me a cashier's check or money order made payable to "Bearer" in the sum of ten thousand US Dollars...

So the thing arrived Monday. Can't fault the quality of the case or the speaker terminals at all really. Nice glossy black, sturdy, nice and heavy. The speakers terminals take banana plugs or spades or bare wires, and they're angled which will help anyone doing a wall mount. Only gripe...

Didn't know that. Explains why a 4000 km cable has problems and a 6 foot one doesn't. As far as "lumping" the values into one, I think it's more analagous to, say, calculating flow in a gas pipeline. You could lump all the resistance to flow at one end, but gas properties change with...

First of all, liek I said, my dugrea is in mekanicual injunearing, not elektricual. We only got as far as basic power theory as needed to feed, say, an electricual moter to drive one of our masheens. So I'm open to discussion and edjewmakhayshun.

Taking a leaf out of the Donald Trump book of political speak, what I said yesterday... No, seriously. I just found it interesting and thought I'd share, not to provoke another ound of "my speaker cable's better than your speaker cable" or "use flat twin and earth or old coat hangers, anything...

Nope. I believe the wiki article implied it was to do with transmission theory and something to do with how quickly the cable would actually transfer the low to high voltage spike assocated with the dots and dashes, not arthritis in the telegrapher's hand :-)

Was researching something else entirely the other day and I came across a link to the "Telegraphers Equations" on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegrapher%27s_equations My rudimentary electrical engineering (i got me a dugrea in mekanicual injunearing from Brunel after all - and...