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I'm afraid there is only one treatment, and it's not covered by any insurance plan.
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Re: My Own Thread to Say I Joined the Family
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Ah, but you're mistaken. There is one insurance plan that covers a surprising amount of treatments -- practically all of them. It's really hard to get in, but you are automatically enrolled in it once you've made a billion dollars.
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You know, one would think that once you're a billionaire you'd have all of the money you could ever need. But the fact is the more money you have, the more money you spend. It's surprising how easily you can spend a billion dollars. Billionairs are often on the market for buying companies and corporations, which cost... billions of dollars! Sure they live much better than we, but it's not as if a billionaire has a billion dollars to spend on whatever he fancies. Most of their money is tied up in whatever company they own, the sports franchise they have as a hobby, or the stocks and bonds that made them billionairs in the first place. Which is something I've never understood, these guys who play the stock market until they become billionairs... why do they leave that money in the stock market? Why WOULDN'T you bank it and just live the rest of your life worry free??? Stock markets crash way too often to leave something like a billion dollars lying around in it. Then again, maybe it's this sort of thinking that'll keep me from ever becoming a billionaire!
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Reminds me of the old joke... Q. How do you become a millionaire? A. You start with a billion dollars and buy an F1 racing team.
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Or, in the case of Ross Brawn, you buy an F1 team, then you sell it.
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Ha ha! The VP150 just shipped!
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I know you are going to love the VP150 when you get it...and you will love it even more when you get sonically matching Axiom speakers for your mains!
I was reading your earlier post about using ProLogic II for music and how your old center channel not seeming to "fit" since it carries most of the vocals. I'm using ProLogic II for all of my music listening and I'm very impressed by some recordings. On certain songs, the vocals will start in the center, widen to the mains, and finally spread to the surrounds...it is a beautiful thing to experience!
By the way, I don't know if it is specific to my receiver (Denon 1910) or a general ProLogic II setting, but I am able to virtually "widen" the center channel so the sound stage is more enveloping. There is another setting called "Panorama" that really shows off the power of the surrounds.
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Yeah, the Prologic II Music mode has Width and Panorama settings. The Width picks how much of the mono content is mixed into the left and right channels vs. removed and mixed into the center. The Panorama does the same for the out-of-phase information, it removes more of it from the left and right and moves it to the surrounds.
I prefer the default for the Panorama. I'll try adjusting the Width to mix more into the center once I get my Axiom speaker. I get very good imaging from my left and right as it is right now, with a perfect phantom center when in stereo mode, so the Width setting one way or the other doesn't make much different. Although it will allow me to make more use of the VP150 instead of my mains.
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Brandon, although Dolby doesn't make it mandatory, most(all?)receivers that have DPLII include the three adjustment parameters: Center Width, Panorama and Dimension. The width adjustment varies the way material which is about equal in strength in the two front channels is distributed; either keeping it all in the front speakers(i.e., a "phantom center" effect), sending it all to the center speaker, or a mixture of the two. Panorama(which I don't use)actually just sends some of the in-phase sound from the front channels to the surrounds, creating an effect part way toward all-channel stereo. It's the Dimension control which varies the amount of out-of-phase material present in the front channels which is extracted and sent to the surrounds; to a limited extent this can increase the surround effect with material which has a relatively small amount of surround ambience mixed into the front channels.
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My receiver doesn't have that. Perhaps all IIx receivers do.
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