RodH

“When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.” Will Rogers

The miniDSP 2X8 http://www.minidsp.com/products/minidspkits/2-x-in-8-x-out

This will likely get me in some hot water, but here it goes.. When a speaker manufacturer produces a speaker with a built in passive crossover, they (hopefully) try to get the best response from the cabinet/driver combination that they are utilizing. Simply removing the internal passive and going with an active frequency crossover, cutting the signal at the proper point and removing power robbing components from the signal path seems good - but: shelving, notch filtering and any other response correcting processes from the original crossover design are eliminated. Now what? To get it right - in YOUR space with YOUR other components, you need to use a microphone/analysis process to make things right. Simply going active without the additional step can be counterproductive. I'm looking very hard at getting the MiniDSP to give it another try. YMMV.

True, passive bi-amping does not convey all the benefits of active, but the increase in available headroom is still worthwhile.

Short answer is it's how 'aggressive' the frequency rolls off at the crossover frequency. The higher the order, the steeper the drop-off past the desired point. Take a look at this: http://www.rane.com/note160.html

Yep. I get that. Then I just want to hear what I like and end up re-buying what I had. Sad.

It sucks when you realize the pursuit is not worth more than the desired result. I know....

So why did you move away from that?

IBEW

Or.......get help!

I can hear Retriever's farts from up here....

There should be a 2 channel track OR a 2 channel downmix option on the player.

An Ortofon MC-20 with a CT-17? Are you using a SUT?

I like it! What are those mid-horns? Welcome aboard!

Which came first?

Brownies

Alcohol won't hurt the vinyl, it will hurt ancient lacquer 78's though. The silicone rollers don't get down into the grooves very well, where the dirt you want gone resides. They clean dust off the top and the record may look better, but it won't usually sound appreciably better. Aside from ultrasonics or steam, you need a system that uses a solution of some sort, a brush to free up the deep seated dirt and a vacuum system to get it all out.

I'm still trying to get past the Jim from Rockford thing

BEWARE! Gene will convince you to re-mortgage your house, sell your first born and walk the streets to feed the Obsessive Compulsive Carver Disorder. Look what he did the KVE777!