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Should I get a bass unit?
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That depends on the rest of your setup. If you get speakers that have a bad low frequency response, then adding a subwoofer could improve the quality significantly.
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Another thing, I heard a long time ago that those things should always be put on the floor but recently Ive seen people with them on a shelf or beside the TV. so which is it??
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What you've heard is true. When placing a sub near a hard surface, the reflections give constructive interference on the magnitude of about +3dB. In a corner (3 hard surfaces: floor, wall, wall) you will gain +9dB (i.e. almost twice as much bass with no additional power consumption)
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Maybe this is crazy but I was thinking about getting my hands on a pair of oscilloscopes & hooking each one up to the two channels (turntable 1 & 2) going into my mixer. Is it possible to analize audio through an oscilloscope? It may be a bit gimicky but I thought it might be nice to see the music from each channel in real time.
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You're right. That's crazy. Seriously, though, it's not worth it. I assume that your looking for some sort of amplitude vs frequency visualization like you see on computers, or some waveform plot. Some oscilloscopes can do these, but you don't want to spend that kind of money. I've used some $5000 oscilloscopes and they still have tiny little green screens that you have to put your nose against to read... well, not quite, but you get the idea.
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used to have a decent set of speakers & amp but in the move to save space I sold em. Its not a home theatre exactly. I wanna buy an amp & speakers for my apartment. Firstly I wanna hook up my turntables (through a mixer) to it. On top of that I want to hook up the pooter so I can listen to games, DVD's, music software, & music Cd's through the pooter. A PS2, a reel-to-reel and a few assorted bits & bobs are on the horizon too but that stuff can wait.
My place is pretty big but I dont wanna blast the neighbours.
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You're going to need some sort of reciever with a lot of extra inputs. Or you could do what I want and just buy a mixer. I know a few people who use a little
Mackie mixer for all their audio routing, and it would work quite well. I recently came across the
SoundCraft E Series which has 10 stereo inputs, but again this may not be what you're planning to do. As for speakers, you can find some small ones that have a great full range sound, but you'll have to pay for them. In this line of equipment, you really do get what you pay for. If I had a lot of money, I'd buy some Tannoy reference moniters and I've heard good things about the Mackie HR24's. Both are expensive and can be found on eBay.
Let me know if you want to know anything else.