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The Sound of Christmas

I could consider my Genelec system an [early] christmas gift for myself. It’s a pair of 8030A monitors matched with a 7050B subwoofer.

Actually, I already had the 8030s since late October and didn’t plan on getting a sub as the 8030s could stand on their own. But since the stocks for the sub were arriving December, I had time to think about 1 And more importantly, save up for considering getting the sub. So I guess the sub is really the Christmas gift in that context

However, there is one more toy arriving which will complement the system, and which I’m most excited about. It’s the JBL MSC-1 monitor system controller.

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Notes

Notes
⇡1 And more importantly, save up for
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Abel is gone

While I had no intentions of naming my monitors, I ended up having to – since they both register as “VX922,” and it’s quite hard to tell them apart when fiddling around with the settings. Hence I dubbed them Cain and Abel respectively hehehe.

Anyways, I had Abel returned for replacement/repair as it had a dead pixel. The “serivice” unit given to me for the time being was a ViewSonic VA1912wb 19″ widescreen. I thought this would be the perfect time to test out the “align” feature in the display properties (for monitors that have different resolutions, you have the option to offset your native monitor alignment). This is the result of the re-alignment

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Dual monitor advice, tips, and tricks

During my quest to have a color calibrated setup of dual displays, I’ve come across a bunch of information that will definitely be useful to any newbie plannning to do the same. Most information could be found in different forums if you search hard enough. But it would be useful to just have everything I’ve discovered written here.

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