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Stephen

If Christie supports their basement readers, then they will surely correct my comments for everyone to see. (They do read this forum)

Doesn't the fact that Christie has ceased selling their basement readers pretty much answer that one? Dealing with these has become a small war as you more than well know. The key word here is "support" from Christie. The answer is of course to admit fault and send over penthouse readers. Will they? Who knows, but you can damn well bet with the fights I've had with their readers getting them to track acceptably, any half-assed solution will be WELL documented here. Perhaps on every page of the site! People must know. Do I see a Joe basement reader review coming?

I've not had problem one with a Dolby penthouse reader aside of having to realign one that was dropped and although I've never used Kelmar's basement readers, the Component Engineering I have set up and aligned tracked very well in a Simplex with no problems of any sort.

I have been quite pleased with the results from Kelmar analog-only readers though and have installed many of them. (I prefer to install analog-only readers with a Dolby penthouse...not basement combo readers.) Out of all the ones I installed, I had one bad cell and one bad power supply and Kelmar overnighted replacements at no charge. Now THAT's backing a product!!! Their product is good and with that kind of service, I will continue to recommend them on all my installs.

(Incidentally, I have consistently found that with Kelmar's power supply set to it's absolute minimum output setting, the preamp gains on the processor always are no more than 3 turns from zero to get the signal DOWN to Dolby level. That leaves an awful nice room for turning up that led as it ages. )

I find SDDS leds must be changed every year and tweeked every 3 months to keep them running.

The Kinoton readers I heard about are all installed at one single multiplex in Stockholm. According to one of their projectionists, they have had very few SRD shows without drop-outs, and quite a lot of them had so many that it was pointless to run the sound digitally at all (unless DTS discs were available).

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