Phil Leigh;468582 Wrote: > Well obviously I've never just used one speaker on my main system!
exactly. but thats what the sbradio does, even to STEREO sources, which is the criticism i'm making. Phil Leigh;468582 Wrote: > In fact it has something you'd love called "party mode" where it can put > a mono source through all 5 speakers - bathing you in mono! i'm somewhat confused here, as i'm not a 4.1/5.1 expert. isn't that what its supposed to do? is that a special feature? i understand it wouldn't make sense to send stereo to all the speakers without processing, but if it knew the source was mono, why wouldn't it send to all the speakers? Phil Leigh;468582 Wrote: > There's no law of the universe that says that music only sounds > right/good from two (or more) speakers. i wasn't saying that. what i was saying, is that most music most people have is stereo, and so this fails out the gate for stereo music sources. again, i have no beef with mono sources. i do have beef with stereo sources being played back on a mono device thats basically the same cost as alternative stereo devices. Phil Leigh;468582 Wrote: > If I had to, I could happily listen to a single big Klipschorn in the > corner. > > Putting mono through two speakers just makes it louder... try it and > see! yes, i understand that. again, the criticism was stereo music sources via one 3inch speaker (or whatever it is), since most music is in fact, stereo. -- MrSinatra www.lion-radio.org using: sb2 & sbc (my home) / sbr (parent's home) - w/sc 7.3.4b - win xp pro sp3 ie8 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - 1tb wd usb2 raid1 - d-link dir-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68947 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
