aaronm
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| Center Channel Amp Recommendations First you need to decide your seriousness about this home theater. Is it just a fancy to have and use occasionally? Or is it going to be a serious theater? This has a great deal to do with the answers to your questions. While I agree with most of ... | |
| EMC-1 vs. Levinson 360s/Sony SCD-1 I use a Pass Labs D1 with a SCD-1 and a 9000ES. Both are very musical through it. Even my dish network box sounds good through it. All details are on Pass Labs' site. The downside is I was recently told there is a 52 week backlog for them. Maybe t... | |
| Would You Pay $9.95 For Satillite Radio I have Dish Network and truly love the audio channels. Except for occasional talk radio, I don't ever use my analog tuner. There have been times (pre-Tivo) that I thought about getting rid of my Dish Network due to a lack of viewing time in the su... | |
| Low noise Preamp for High Eff Speakers Ampzilla,I'm going to assume your post was aimed at me. While I won't agree or disagree with your view of balanced interconnects and long runs, there are few things you may want to consider in the future. When you use exclamation marks after your ... | |
| Low noise Preamp for High Eff Speakers I would like to second the X1 as a very quiet preamp. The X1 is as quiet as quiet gets, especially using balanced interconnects to a Pass X series amp(s). I think Pass Labs calls it Super Symmetry. I can tell you with my overly efficient horns(104... | |
| 24/96 Transports DVP-S9000ES outputs 24/96 or 16/48. It is menu selectable under, remarkably,"AUDIO SETUP- PCM-Output." I believe it was the first Sony DVD to output 24/96 without down converting. | |
| Have ARC LS-16 Pre- what to upgrade to?? Sutts,I was recently in your predicament and the preamps I've found which have these features: Sonic Frontiers, Mark Levinson,Conrad Johnson,Audio Research,Pass labs,and Anthem.Coincedentally, I don't think the Ref 1 has processor bypass, instead ... | |
| Which Cables for Sony DVP-9000ES Ericbee is correct. Although I have been emailed by a Krell employee that the upgrade for HTS1 will be available soon (2nd Quarter) to allow analog bypass. The degradation of SACD sound is horrible through the HTS. I use an analog preamp to listen... |