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Home Theater Audio Cabling (from HDMI to speaker cable). DO NOT ask me car audio questions. It is not my forte, and I will not answer them.
Experience in the area
I am a Certified Audio Engineer that also works in the A/V cabling industry. I would like to dispel the myths and outright lies about the cables that connect your home theater systems together. Here's a hint - many of you have been misled out of hundreds of dollars for cabling systems.
Organizations
ASCAP AES
Education/Credentials
Audio Recording Technology Institute Vancouver Film School
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Recent Answers from Wayne Tapia
2009-11-22 what mini hifi system can i connect to a turntable:
One thing about the mini systems is that they are meant to be self contained units. You are correct in that many do not have any inputs. One other thing I should mention is that you will need to find
2009-11-10 amp to speakers:
As far as brands - Mackie, Carvin, Crown, QSC, Yamaha... these are good. Just make sure that whichever you choose has the same impedance range as the speakers you're using. I won't make a specific
2009-11-10 Connecting CD player to cable box:
I doubt that your cable box has audio inputs - every one I've ever seen or dealt with have been output only. If you're television won't allow you to use any of the audio inputs without a corresponding
2009-11-06 Question reg 128kbps MP3 with a DAC:
It depends on the quality of the DAC. I've heard good and bad conversion quality. One thing to remember also is that regardless of the sample rate of the mp3, it is a very lossy format, and no DAC will
2009-11-05 speaker pop/pulsing:
One way to test this would be to swap the left and right speakers, and see if it happens again on the same side. If it's always coming from the left channel (for example), I'd suspect the amp. If it "follows"
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