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This seems to be incredibly subjective. This really depends on HOW much better, and what they're willing to pay for. I mean, I know an audiophile who can design, build, and setup the entire room with properly proportioned surround sound with speakers that have a "true to sound" quality for several thousand, but something tells me that isn't what you're looking for.

LOL... audiophile and surround sound don't go together

I don't think I agree with that - but I'd have to check definitions to be sure... If you're a movie audiophile... I'd think you'd want surround more.. if you're a music audiophile.. then heck.. mono might be best.. but stereo is the norm.

I'd agree with @scottalanmiller on this one. I've got a 5.1 at home that sounds great. Still, any surround sound system has to modify the original signal.

If you don't have a screen to blast through, drop that center channel and your sound quality instantly improves. That center channel thing is the bane of sound quality.

For music sure.

Nope, you missed the point. It's better, period.

the problem with that is that most media have a dedicated center channel for dialog. Without that dialog can get muddled or lost.

Then your system is handling it wrong. Anything that is sent to the center channel sounds better when sent to the R and L channels equally. Literally, the center channel cannot improve the sound over stereo, it's not possible as you have no center ear. All the center channel does is break your perfect sound experience and risk colouration and cause reflection interference. In all seriousness, audio physics makes it impossible for a center channel to improve the sound quality.

well, then perhaps I have to find a way to turn off the center channel when using my receiver.. because when the center is simply unplugged, you can barely hear the dialog.

If you go into the receiver and tell it there is no center channel speaker it will output it to both L&R

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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I've been a B+W user for decades. Not my favorite, that's Totem, but very good.

I have a pair of B&W in wall speakers on my wall mounted TV.. they sound pretty good.

Now wall mounting them.... not audiophile, lol.

in wall Even worse

In ceiling, even worse.

The only place I consider in ceiling speakers are for the surround speakers on a surround sound system... because who cares at that point... its just extra sound effects.

I really liked the old Klipsch Models.

@Mike-Ralston said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brianlittlejohn LOL, so I'm not alone in thinking BOSE is awful stuff. I keep seeing old BOSE gear go for sky-high prices worthy of some really special stuff, and they sound awful.

No highs, no lows, must be Bose

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@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Most speaker design is in the crossover and cabinet.

Except for Bose, most of their design is in the marketing.

B.O.S.E - Bring Other Sound Equipment

Most speaker design is in the crossover and cabinet.

@Minion-Queen said in Standing Desk:

I have debated on one of those but I already have really expensive desks so I don't want to replace anything.

I got it because they were needing to buy a desk when they hired me on.

This is the desk I have in my office.

Never used it, but this may be an option...

http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/

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Making the internet more expensive will do little more than kill online services.

At this rate Netflix will only be for the wealthy, etc.

You say making it more expensive, but it's getting cheaper. Where do you see it costing more?

where is it getting less expensive?

Everywhere that I know of. You pay the same for 100Mb/s today that we used to pay for dialup.

While true, we're NOT comparing to old dialup here, but what was available a year ago at most.

The big ISPs are purposely setting caps that prevent people from replacing TV service with cheaper streaming services.

So, from a company perspective, they're getting a two-fer. Preventing people from replacing needlessly expensive cable/satellite service with a cheaper alternative, and getting a small percentage of people to pay way more. Makes all sorts of sense from a business perspective.

The more and more I read, the more places I see that say, cord cutting it not about cutting costs, it's about freedom of choice.

There is no way to compare. We pay $10 for Netflix instead of $100 for Cable. So you decide if we cut costs.

But your options are also significantly less too. Not saying you care, perhaps cable offered you nothing you wanted. I would like 8 or so channels on cable, I definitely don't want ESPN. Getting rid of ESPN alone could save me $30+ a month, what they charge the cable provider to provide it to me. This is a case where I'm paying for the rich to have something cheaper... lol

Well, I've never seen any cable channel worth having. So to me I'm getting 1000x the value for 10% of the price.

I have to agree with this. Streaming services are the death of traditional cable. Pay for the channels you want and you have them accessible from any device. Done.

But a lot aren't available. For example, HGTV, if you want that, you have to find a streaming service that provides it. Sure PS Vue does and Sling TV, but both of them require the $20+ package to do so. Don't get me wrong, I'm not standing up for cable, I'm just saying that IF you want some of that content, it's not super cheap.

Toss in the fact that you loose functions like DVR with Sling (though I hear they are working on it) and the DVR feature of PS Vue is kinda crap - ok it's real crap compared to cable or TIVO.

now there's an idea - Tivo for streaming services.

Streaming services are already TiVO'd for you. Needing a DVR for your DVR is pretty weird as a concept.

Except for live events.

@Minion-Queen ok, Thanks!

@Minion-Queen That is what I needed to do, I can add the E3 licenses from my Portal... do I still need to call billing?

In office 365 I have all of my users on O365 Business Premium, however, for a few of my users they connect to my RDS Server to access Quickbooks (I know...its bad... haha) and Business Premium doesn't allowed shared computer activation, but Office 365 E3 does. I know I can have both subscriptions coexist in my tenant, but does switching licensing mess with the Exchange Mailbox or should I be good to switch those users to E3 without worrying about losing their mailbox?

@travisdh1 said in Been Wanting 10Gb Lab For A While:

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I don't know to read that.

I see the SUM at the bottom, but don't know what it means.

If I had to guess it is running multiple streams at the same time and is summed at the SUM

I too assume this - but wanted to be sure, so I made my comment

I take it you haven't been introduced to iperf yet?

Look 8 posts up.

From what I've read online (its online, it has to be true. haha), Nanny cams are allowed by law in all 50 states without consent as long as it is recording just video.

It should be just the router. I have never set one up this way though, I've always had the DHCP Server on the same subnet.

@Dashrender said in Been Wanting 10Gb Lab For A While:

I don't know to read that.

I see the SUM at the bottom, but don't know what it means.

If I had to guess it is running multiple streams at the same time and is summed at the SUM

I've always been more scared of Google than any three letter agency out there.

@thanksajdotcom said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Don't Drink and Drive Mario Kart is alot of fun!

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Art and I have been playing AOE a bit lately. If you wanted to join in you can

I love AOE... right now I just don't have a computer with windows installed to play