bar81
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| Power Cable with a "soft" top end Transparent | |
| How would you improve the sound of Squeezebox? Why didn't you just buy a Transporter? | |
| Okay......best single box reference CD player Concur, Ayre digital is certainly not up to the standards of their amplification. | |
| best of both worlds can u get a musical multi amp? If you want musical then "downgrade" to a used Dreadnaught I. Alternatively, try an Ayre V-6xe. | |
| True HD without HDMI? You're limited in your options. The passthrough is what you've found out, the receiver doesn't process the signal from HDMI at all so no audio out of your receiver. The optical cable is really your only other option for multi-channel sound as the ... | |
| The best hifi magazine? TAS in its current incarnation is lacking in credibility. They need to clean out some lockers and put a moratorium on the seemingly neverending proclamations that almost every new component being reviewed is the best that reviewer has ever heard. | |
| The best hifi magazine? Hi-Fi+ by far imo. | |
| Okay......best single box reference CD player Fbhifi,Can you please let us know what components you are using in your system. Thanks. | |
| Mark Levinson 326S or Audio Research Ref 3 ? I think the 326S is an excellent preamp; it's extremely quiet with a solid hold of the low end and a nice clear midrange. However, it still has that Levinson sound which some may feel is "musical" but it's something it imparts on everything partic... | |
| Blue-ray player with good 2ch sound? Best bet currently is the Marantz BD8002; essentially the same as the Denon 3808bdci but with improved isolation and power supply. | |
| lpcm or bitstream for bluray? All the PS3 is doing is unpacking the digitally compressed sound formats into LPCM. The D/A is being done (once) in the processor. Note that you have to use HDMI output on the PS3 if you want surround as toslink is limited to 2 channel PCM. | |
| Top two channel pre w/HT passthrough XLR best Ayre or Levinson | |
| Next upgrade, DartZeel or Ayre Mike,The comment was not intended to imply that the dartzeel gear doesn't sound good; rather, just that your setup is an ideal case and that an in-home demo is a must. | |
| Next upgrade, DartZeel or Ayre Semi,The Ayre CDP was also likely problematic. ime, the Ayre digital gear renders music without a soul. Also, the KX-R is really the linchpin (as is the preamp in most systems ime); what you want comes only with the KX-R in the system.Several othe... | |
| Biwire posts; how to connect? You connect the speaker cables to the HF posts and then jumper down to the LF and if you have 803D or above it would be a good idea to get aftermarket jumpers as the stock ones aren't particularly good. |