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WetBlanket (Posted on 03/17/10, 07:59 PM)
How about a profit margin?
SBA (Posted on 03/17/10, 05:48 PM)
Great comments from actual business owners about the value of learning from others. I think many of us fall into the “I’m smart enough to figure it all out” at first, and quickly(hopefully) come to realize that there’s…
TPTEXAS (Posted on 03/17/10, 05:42 PM)
This Is history in the making! Julie we need a full history lesson. First is AMX, Extron, Altinex, FSR for commercial and ELAN and other companies for residential. AMX start Phast to steal business from ELAN, Phast crashes…
Ward Akins (Posted on 03/17/10, 05:04 PM)
Another common problem when using a device between the source and the display is 5v loop back. Per HDMI spec this should be diode blocked but many displays do not (regardless of cost) while almost all source players do. This 5v…
Michael Healy (Posted on 03/17/10, 02:08 PM)
We haven’t tried that but given your success, I think we may need to. We were up in the air considering it works fine with a 3M HDMI cable but maybe the signal is weak but just good enough to work. Thanks for the…
jbrown (Posted on 03/17/10, 01:53 PM)
Well we have successfully distributed the same 7000ES player using the Gefen EXT-HDMI1.3-142D distribution amp feeding a local Classe SSP-800 and also a Gefen EXT-HDMI-5BNC extender which went to a second SSP-800 in another room. We have…
Michael Healy (Posted on 03/17/10, 01:37 PM)
Easy, Easy… My post was based on experience from a recent project. I would never post negatively on a product without hours and hours of through troubleshooting. I’m not definite that this is the exact problem Jeff…
Robert Archer (Posted on 03/17/10, 01:36 PM)
Is it the same circuit design? Have you ever visited an A/V store or a custom installer to see what type of heat is generated by a rack full of gear? Are they using the same DACs, are they using XLRs, are they software/firmware…
Aaron (Posted on 03/17/10, 12:53 PM)
I think I just found my new server.
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“The pre/pro probably has that space to allow the unit’s processors to properly ventilate.” The heat generated by an audio/video processor is a fraction of a modern day CPU/GPU so that is irrelevant. “The…
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