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  1. The two products are somewhat different so depends on what you want to use it for and what you future plans are. Bluesound is the new competitor to Sonos designed by former NAD guys. High rezz streaming and you can expand system to include your whole house with various options just like Sonos. Set up to run streaming services such as Tidal and Deezer which the Marantz does not have from what I can tell. The Marantz appears to have limited streaming options built in but on the other hand it can act as a DAC for other external sources through coax or toslink input. Also can stream from your iPhone etc. via Bluetooth but not ideal for audio. What are you connecting it to? Personally I would go with the Bluesound but that is not knowing exactly what your goal is now and in the future.
  2. So I see the first used "Yggy" for sale on Audiogon. Will be interesting to see how many of these will show up in the secondary market over the next few months. Not necessarily an indication of how people like it but still.......
  3. Very nice indeed! You could sell these! LOL
  4. I think you need to set whatever analog input you use to "pure direct" mode. This should turn off any circuitry that is not used along with the display and just pass the analog signal along so you can use the receiver as a "pure" pre-amp. If your sub-woofer is only hooked up to the receiver this may mean you lose the ability to use the sub-woofer in this mode. Not sure how Marantz handles this but on my NAD the equivalent is "analog passthrough", which also disables bass management or any other signal processing. The only way to get around this and still have the sub in the signal path is to either hook up the woofer at speaker level after amplification or put it in the signal path from the main speaker pre-outs and then back to the pre-ins, but this assumes your sub has both hi and low-pass filters. What sub are you using? Some sub-woofers will allow you to do this and still hook up the LFE out from the receiver so you can still get the sound effects from movies that are on this signal path. You would set the main speakers to "large" if wired in this way, but with bass management on when you are in surround mode.
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  6. Justifyable grounds for divorce right there! Just a small rug? Does she not understand that preventing an audiophile from pursuing the ever elusive perfect sound with whatever means necessary could cause severe emotional distress and a host of other psychological and physical ailments? This is just not right!
  7. When you raise the crossover on sub above 40 hz you are crossing into the territory of the main speakers. The signals get addded together so you will have a big spike in bass right around 40 hz. Your setting should be somewhere below 40hz.
  8. Congrats - sounds like you have found a good starting point. Now let the system play for a couple of hundered hours. I think most would at least agree that speakers benefit from "breaking in" due to the fact that we are dealing with moving parts here. Once they are "broken in" start experimenting with all of the great suggestions in this thread - I think you will be amazed how big a difference a few little tweaks can make. One suggestion once you get settled in is to get a decibel meter from Radio Schack and a CD with test tones ranging from 20-20,000 hz. That way you can actually measure the response curve and prove to yourself that the sub is well integrated. You will discover where your peaks and valleys are and with all the tweaks here you should be able to level it off. To tune a suystem by ear only can be very time consuming and frustrating. At least it will give you a good base to start from.
  9. Even if it doubles over 10 years it is only a 7% compounded return or so.
  10. I think your speakers go down to 42hz while the sub you are looking at goes down to 35hz so you may not gain that much in bass response. If you are using your receiver in bass-management mode you could set the crossover at say 60-80hz or so in order to off-load the speakers a little so they are less strained by not being pushed to the limits in the lower region. This would probably be the biggest benefit in my mind. However, if you are like me, I would not want the receiver to process anything when in 2-channel mode and in analog passthrough mode this sub may not provide much more - it will certainly not be the full body experience kind of bass. However, in order to get down to say 20hz you do need to spend more. With that said these are well regarded subs and it looks like it has all the inputs and adjustment possibilities you really need.
  11. I think it has been alluded to above, but problem I see is that it may sound like a sub. What I mean is the sub should totally disappear when integrated correctly with the main speakers. This is not as easy as it may sound. Try it out in your system just to make sure it can be integrated properly to a pont where it does not draw attention to itself. In my experience the one woofer, smallish subs tend to have woofers that are not of the highest caliber as far as "response time". There tends to be a little bit of a lag between the response of the main speaker and the sub which ultimately will make the bass sound muffled and out of sync, which ultimately draws attention to the sub and before long you will be one of many that swear that subs are not for 2-channel systems. However, at the price I would give it a shot, just keep in mind that all subs are not built equally just like speakers so don't draw too many conclusions if it does not work out to your liking.
  12. Martin Logan makes very nice, fast, musical subwoofers. I have the Depthi currently and could not be happier. The three woofer design is very unique and makes for a subwoofer with virtually zero vibration no matter how hard you drive it, which gives you tight, accurate bass response. It was designed to pair with their electrostatic speakers so it has to be fast and accurate to work. Their customer support is also excellent!
  13. All I can say is I did not pay $900 for my USB cable. His Blue series is priced from $249. Maybe you should check facts before making assumptions. That by the way is a bargain for the sound quality you get, but then again you may be in the "cables make no difference" camp. You asked for advise so maybe try not to be so flippant with your responses going forward. Good luck!
  14. I thnk WyWires can make one. Alex is great to deal with.
  15. According to the pre-production reviews it seems that way especially considering the price.
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