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Recent content by Nas88

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    To downsize or not to downsize

    I'd love to take these speakers but I'm leaving them for my dad as he's more into his cinema setup and a leaving present for him. Also these speakers are rather large and would protrude too far out, wife wouldn't be best pleased. Don't want to upset her with 'big speakers'. So I am limited to...
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    To downsize or not to downsize

    Evening all, I am in a bit of a dilemma as to what to do. Originally I owned - Rotel RA06se Rotel RB-1552 Marantz CD6006 Project Essential 3 B&W684 The room these were placed in was my 'listening room', part of an open plan living space. I have now moved the 684s across to the 'cinema room'...
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    Question Combine Stereo and Surround Sound

    I don't know what I've done! I moved the Power Amp alongside the AV, plugged interconnects to the Line-Out on the Onkyo now the whole audio doesn't work. Stereo or surround. Have no idea whats happened!
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    Question Combine Stereo and Surround Sound

    Fair point yes but in a fortunate position that my hifi setup is in a separate area to where the 5.1 cinema setup is in the living room. The hifi rack and seperates (most of them) could shift over to the cinema's rack. I just wondered if its possible to keep at least 1 rotel amp to run the...
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    Question Combine Stereo and Surround Sound

    The front surrounds are CA Minx speakers. I did try it out and moved the 684s to the front. It was a b***h to get the threads on the speakers cables to clip onto the AV amp. I was rather pleasantly surprised by the sound in stereo mode. May have been mostly because it was in 2.1 with a fair...
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    Question Combine Stereo and Surround Sound

    Hi all, Apologise if this has been posted before but can't find the specifics of this query. I have a stereo setup which includes - Rotel RA-06se Rotel RB-1552 Marantz CD6006 Project Esstenial B&W 684 I have a surround sound setup which includes- Onkyo TX-SR333 Cambridge Audio minx...
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    Centre Console Screen

    Morning all, Slightly off topic I know but maybe something you could help with. Was giving my car a full valet service over the weekend when I came across this issue. The centre console screen I was looking to clean as it was very greasey. So used a screen cleaner by spraying it onto a...
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    How to clean Hi-Fi

    Hi everyone, Hope all are keeping while during lockdown?? Need some advice on cleaning my speakers. Now it's not like I've never given them a quick wipe down when they get a little dust on them. The problem I have is the front face of the speakers are a real pain to clean. The speakers are...
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    Question Harmon Kardon SB20

    Factory reset didn't work either - at a loss as to what could be causing this. Must have something to do with settings as it's happened on 2 of these soundbars.
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    Question Harmon Kardon SB20

    Yep, so if I switch the soundbar off using it's own remote it switches on back by itself too. Harmon replied back to my query and said to try a factory reset on the soundbar. Shall give it a go and see.
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    Question Harmon Kardon SB20

    The remote for the Samsung TV triggers the soundbar to switch off/on when I switch the TV off/on.
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    Question Harmon Kardon SB20

    No the soundbar only has 1 HDMI out which is an ARC
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    Question Harmon Kardon SB20

    Evening all, Need some help in finding out what's going on with this soundbar. This is the 2nd one I've owned due to the last one having a fault. What happens is when I switch the TV off the soundbar switches off as well, as it should being connected via HDMI ARC. However, a few moments...
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    A little story

    I'm not sure, would you classify 684 S1's as big speakers? For me comparing the sounds to the other potential combinations, these sound beautiful. It was the B&W/Rotel combo that I preferred over the KEF Q500/Marantz or the Mordaunt Short Aviano/Pioneer. The 684s played all music genres very...
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    A little story

    I'm not saying there is anything wrong with searching for that perfect sound. All I'm trying to say advise against is forgetting your music and start to nick pick at all the flaws you may think your system has. The choice you have in the hifi market should alone satisfy your hearing and taste in...