This is THE step-by-step guide to setting up and fine-tuning your audio or home theater system. Roger Skoff of XLO Electric (innovators in the field of cables and interconnects) and "Prof." Keith O. Johnson (audio guru and co-inventor of HDCD) lead you through a quick and easy system set-up. Included are tracks dealing with Balance, Wiring and Polarity, Speaker Placement, Sound Staging, Imaging and Depth, Absolute Phase, Component Demagnetization and Burn-In, PLUS a varied selection of Reference Recordings jazz and classics to show off your fully-tweaked system!

Features:

Special 24K GOLD Test & Burn-In CD Disc

Surround Sound Compatible HDCD

Just playing this disc will improve the sound of your stereo or home theater system!

System Burn-In

Channel identification

"Prof." Johnson does Something Spatial

Demagnetizing Sweep

The voices of Roger Skoff and "Prof." Keith Johnson guide you through a quick and easy system setup!

Demagnetizing Fade

315 Hz Test Tone

Clap Track

Relative and Absolute Phase Check

All this, plus sensational demo material in HDCD

Technical Tracks:
1. Channel Identification (Left/Right)
2. Voice In-Phase
3. Voice Out-of-Phase
4. Clap Track
5. 315 Hz Test Tone
6. "Prof." Johnson Does Something Spatial
7. Demagnetizing Sweep
8. Demagnetizing Fade
9. System Burn-In

Music Tracks:
10. Mon, In-Phase
11. Mon, Out-Of-Phase
12. Stereo, Out of Absolute Phase
13. Stormy Weather - Eileen Farrell (vocal) / Loonis McGlohon combo
14. Shiny Stockings - Bob Lark / DePaul Universtiy Jazz Ensemble I
15. Morton Gould: Derivations, "Rag" movement
- John Bruce Yeh, clarinet / DePaul University Jazz Ensemble I
16. Janácek: Sinfonietta, "The Queen's Monastery"
- José Serebrier / Czech State Philharmonic
17. Franx Biebl: "Ave Maria" - Timothy Seelig / The Turtle Creek Chorale
18. Weinberger: "Polka and Fugue"
- Frederick Fennell / Dallas Wind Symphony / Paul Riedo, organ