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The best course I can recommend is to use the best tools and resources you have available. Headphones are not ideal, but they're better than bad speakers, and probably better than even good speakers in a bad listening environment.
A lot depends on what you're mixing and what the target environment will be. Mixing music or voice that will mainly be consumed ...
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You should be fine. It takes quite a powerful magnet to mess up a hard drive, and you won't generally find that in a set of speakers. Especially at 6" away, I wouldn't worry. Keep in mind that hard drives have incredibly powerful magnets in them.
See this article for more: http://www.pcworld.com/article/116572/busting_the_biggest_pc_myths.html
As ...
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Teneff,
tl;dr you can run your 6Ohm speakers fine with the receiver with out any concerns. You won't damage the speaker or the amp. If you drive the amp too hard for too long, it will simply shut down to protect itself and cool off.
Technical details:
Loudspeakers impedance rating are nominal, i.e. they pick a single number for the impedance that is ...
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First off, Cross-talk cancellation is actually a dangerous term here since it doesn't imply what type of crosstalk is meant, what you most likely mean is a 100% left-right channel separation. This is theoretically impossible, and I will explain why.
If what you are looking for is creating a wider impression than a stereo loudspeaker setup: The ...
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Here is an excerpt from Acme, who make very high quality bass guitar enclosures. as you may know, bass amps put out some monstrous amounts of LF.
Q. What about breaking in my new woofers?
I played my Series I Low B2 with the new speakers I installed from you on a gig last night. Unfortunately the first thing I noticed is that is that the volume is lower ...
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To do this properly, you will need the frequency response curves for both your studio monitors and your subwoofer so that you can get the crossover frequency right:
In the above graph, the red curved line is the subwoofer frequency response. The green line is the frequency response of your studio monitors. The crossover frequency is the point where the ...
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Thanks for an interesting question! This kept me awake for a while.
It is definitely possible to generate chords even if all you have is a one-bit signal to the speaker. Many games for the ZX Spectrum (3.5 MHz, 8 bit CPU, 1 bit speaker) did this in the 80's.
There are a few techniques I can think of:
Just generate (sine, square etc.) waves of different ...
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You might want to look at some of the theory behind additive synthesis - this Wikipedia article simplifies some of it. It is definitely do-able.
Of course, using a single bit (ie speaker at position 0 or position 1) will add in some interesting harmonics which will vary depending on the maximum rate of change of your speaker cone and the maximum rate of ...
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The best bang for your buck will be to make it yourself: buy a good brand of plugs (neutrik, switchcraft, etc) from Markertek or equivalent and use plain old 2-conductor AC extension cord for the cabling. Banana plugs or Speakon are preferable to 1/4" but not terribly common in guitar rigs.
Make the cable as short as possible, but not too short!
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You should worry just as much about protecting your equipment from humidity. Humidity will affect the speaker cones, the electronics inside, and everything else too in more extreme cases.
Changes in temperature will cause expansion and contraction. Since different materials expand and contract at different rates, that can break down the cones and the ...
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The "Big Boxes" you have are both subwoofers with integrated amplifiers. You must connect each speaker to its appropriate amplifier, however, the Panasonic system requires a sound source that outputs 5.1 channel sound on RCA plugs. (The RCA marked "SW" would output sound from the "big box" itself.)
Your Videocon amplifier has a passthrough, you could ...
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It is a good idea to avail yourself to as many different listening environments as possible. As others have mentioned, higher quality monitors and higher quality listening environments will allow for more precise control.
However, unless your end user will be listening in that same high quality environment, some of that precision will be lost to the ...
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An easy solution would be to use a recording interface that has more than 5 outputs.
I own a M-Audio ProFire 2626 which has 8 analog inputs and 8 analog outputs that you can individually control and route any input to any output with the included software. There are also several other brands/models of interfaces with the same number of outputs that are a ...
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if I wanted to attach a CD Player, ipod or computer via a 3.5 stereo jack, do I need to purchase a preamp also?
No. Both the 350 and 450 can have their input impedance switched between line and mic values. You'd just set the speaker to line impedance and you're okay to connect a CD player or an iPod directly to the speaker.
If you're connecting an ...
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While I agree with Jim, to use the best tools you can, I always recommend headphones, if for no other reason to isolate what you're recording from the background noise. You have no idea how many times I've not heard the applicance running in the background until I had my headphones on. Alternately, you may hear a lawnmower outside, but only upon wearing ...
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Unfortunately this will not work. Or more specifically, it will not work well. The problem is that the signal sent to the speakers is very different than the line level signal expected by the amps.
There are speaker level to line level converters (most often used in car audio), but the resulting signal often leaves something to be desired.
If you are ...
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Your question contains part of the answer: eliminate the speakers as a factor by trying headphones, or by connecting the current right speaker to the left channel and so on to see if the imbalance follows the speakers. If they're not the problem, do all inputs to the amp show the same effect? If so, it's very likely the amp.
If there's only one input and ...
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There is an audible difference between my brand-new MDR 7509HD headphones and those my friend used for a longer time. They were made with a same technology, in the same year.
My friend's headphones sound warmer, their mid-frequencies are somewhat more open.
He heard of a need for a "break-in" period, so he left them playing for a couple of days, something ...
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Put them next to a CRT TV or computer screen. It's not a very high tech way to find out, but it's sure to change the image if they are not. Don't leave them there for long as they could damage your screen. You could also open them up and check visually. If you see bare magnet, they are not shielded. Then again, they could just be painted over.
Either method ...
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The best advice I can give is to go and listen to the monitors at a store. It's not perfect, but it'll give you a lot more useful information than spec sheets. Take music you know well and A/B/C/etc. all the monitors on your shortlist.
I've been surprised a few times when monitors that look good on paper turned out to be bested by significantly cheaper ...
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This is not a good idea. It may not blow up your system, but it certainly isn't the optimal setup, and I'm sure it voids the warranty (if you admit to doing it).
Each output is looking for an 8 ohm load; you should really avoid going under the minimum. Here's an article that may help:
http://www.prestonelectronics.com/audio/Impedance.htm
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The Jawbone JAMBOX just received a firmware update that enables binaural playback:
http://jawbone.com/liveaudio
Most Apple stores stock the JAMBOX, so you can demo it there if you're near to one of those. Good luck!
Disclaimer: I work for Jawbone.
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Most stores and malls will use an inline array running at 50/70/100 Volts with a VERY bandpassed signal (probably 300Hz-8kHz, not that much more than the audio bandwidth of a telephone call). This allows the signal to be more easily amplified but sacrifices a good deal of fidelity - the speakers will be designed to reproduce the same frequency range for ...
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The key figure is the impedance - if this doesn't match the impedance the amp expects then you can damage the amp or speakers, so you either need an amp that can supply 6 ohm speakers or you need to alter the speaker impedance (4 or 8 ohm are more common so you may need to use an impedance matcher here)
Once you have that sorted, don't try and use to much ...
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I agree with @leftaroundabout, this sounds just like a problem I saw at my old middle school many years ago. Almost certainly there is a noise gate somewhere in the signal chain that is cutting out when the input signal is too low, or not responding fast enough when the signal is present.
Look for something with a "threshold" parameter. If the system is ...
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You've got the right idea stripping the RCA ends, but you will need to attach them to the input of the amplifier, rather than directly to the speakers. Try to trace the audio lines coming out of the record player, and attach your iPod cabling to wherever that goes.
You'll probably want to test it out with something other than an iPod/iPad too - just in case ...
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The good thing is that style of music is not necessarily that important. Generally (and this is a generalisation) you want your PA to provide amplification without affecting the sound, with EQ to carry out tweaks to compensate for the frequency response of the venue. Any effects on instruments or vocals should be carried out using processors separate to ...
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I use headphones for stuff like late night tracking , mobile production but will always check my tracks on a good pair of speakers in the morning
Sennheiser HD25 series are the bare minimum IMO
Headphones are great to get into production but you will need a pair of decent speakers sooner rather than later .
A mid range pair of Hi Fi speakers will be ...
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A couple things come to mind...
Unless you're mixing for internet streaming, don't base your mix on how it sounds through laptop speakers. Those little 1" drivers are just plain incapable of producing anything down in the bass fundamentals range.
You say you've tried EQing in some higher frequencies. You can only "EQ in" what's already there of course, ...
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Generally, leave all such adjustments flat (e.g. off) unless you have good reason to change them. For example, if you must place the speaker closer to a surface than is optimal, you may get some high frequency (HF) reflections. Tuning down the HF might help a little... though the best answer is always to change the positioning.
Likewise, if the speaker is ...
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