bld63

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Home Theater and Two Channel With Out Reciever?
I have just been through the same ordeal with similar equipment. My solution was to add an anolog pre with unity gain surround loop and use my HT receiver as pre/pro for movies and multi channel. Made a huge difference with 2-channel. From the equ... 
Your top 10 vinyl LPs that never made it to CD
Neil Young - On the Beach, Time Fades Away, American Stars n' Bars, Hawks & Doves, ReactorWarren Zevon - Stand In the FireGrin - Grin, All OutThe Kinks - Kinkdom, The Great Lost Kinks Album 
Pioneer DV-45A - Where's the bass?
Sorry if I misinformed you but my reguardless of the owners manual the bass mgmt. on my unit only works with the digital out. Either we both have faulty units (entirely possible) or the manual is faulty. Anyway it is a great unit for the money, th... 
Pioneer DV-45A - Where's the bass?
I have this unit and the bass mgmt. only works with the digital out. Look at an Outlaw ICBM - $200 for B-stock on their website. Makes a huge difference with multi-channel SACD & DVDA. 
Bass Management
The ICBM does work as Sogood described and makes a huge difference on multi-channel SACD and DVDA. If the receiver has pre out/main in for all channels it will also work like Sogood stated. The ICBM has provision for stereo sub out as well. Sums a... 
What music have you been buying lately?
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust - remastered CdRod Stewart - Every Picture - remastered CdLou Reed - RnR Animal - remastered CdRobin Trower - Bridge of Sighs - remastered CdZwan - (Billy Coragin) CdJunior Wells - Blues Hit Big Town - CdSun Volt - Trace - u... 
Who is Most Beautiful female singer ever
Michelle Phillips 
Best Concert DVD
Live Rust - Neil Young 
Best cover tunes
Dark End Of The Street. I beleive the original version of this tune was by James Carr, a Memphis soul singer on the Goldwax label. If you've have never heard it you gotta if you like soul music. His other 'hit' was Pouring Water on a Drowning Man.... 
Best cover tunes
I Fought the Law - The Clash 
Best female vocals on CD
Aretha even if shes on the CD player of the car next to you at a red light. 
Massive Attack fans....
Long time between releases.....still waiting for My Bloody Valentines follow-up to 1991's Loveless. Nah, its been too long long to care now. It was great to have a new Steely Dan record after twenty years but are you really gonna pull 2 Against Na... 
Need advice for pre/pro and front end
Embarresed by the above post. I am an engineer so someone could toss me a math problem but I can't spell arethmitick. 
Need advice for pre/pro and front end
It should be obvious from by to general plea for help that I am new to this site as well as high-fi equip and am a little intimidated. I really appreciate the responses so far. Sogood, I am intriged by your suggestion and will research it. Thsalmo... 
HDCD Question....
Phasecorrect, my sacd/dvd-a has 24/192 DAC but does not say it is a HDCD player. My processor has a HDCD symbol on it. When I play a HDCD output PCM the HDCD indicator on the processor lights up. I also think HDCD's sound better than SACD's on my ...