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| newbiee needs veterans advice SLOW DOWN!!!!!Your'e spending all kinds of money, and committing yourself to spending all kinds of other money later, before you've gotten over the basics. Take your time. I gather you don't have a lot of money. That's fine--you really don't have ... | |
| SACD or DVD Audio, which one is winning the race? Emafaith: I never said that CD can't "extract more details" than LP. Because of differences in dynamic range (which is directly related to resolution), a CD can capture some details that an LP just can't.Now, whether you can HEAR those details or ... | |
| SACD/DVD-A and 2-channel recordings Quite true, Cal, in this particular case, but I think it's symptomatic of a larger danger. When the primary product is a multichannel recording (as the DSOTM SACD release certainly was), any included 2-channel version may be just an afterthought. ... | |
| SACD/DVD-A and 2-channel recordings Pard, you're right. When you said "layer," I thought of hybrids, but yes, a multichannel SACD includes a 2-channel version on the SACD layer, whether or not it's a hybrid disk.It's on the DVD-A side that you get a mixdown if you've only got a two-... | |
| SACD or DVD Audio, which one is winning the race? Emafaith: I think you're confusing "detail" and "resolution." The latter is the technical term, and is directly a function of the number of bits. The former is a much more subjective term, used by reviewers and audiophiles to describe how well a s... | |
| SACD/DVD-A and 2-channel recordings Given the ubiquity of the Walkman and the boombox, I'd say it's highly unlikely that we'll ever stop getting disks that are playable in a two-channel system.You may have misunderstood your dealer friend, however. The second layer on a hybrid SACD ... | |
| What makes different amps produce different sound? Eldartford: Where did you get that information? To my (admittedly limited) knowledge, everything you've said is wrong. Most instruments produce ALL harmonics, but some wind instruments, if I'm not mistaken, produce only ODD harmonics. (Remember th... | |
| What makes different amps produce different sound? Just for the record, there is a school of thought (and a rather well-credentialed one) that holds that competent amps operating within normal limits do NOT sound different at all. To be more specific, they would argue that if two amps sound differ... | |
| What am I missing out on here - Bi- wiring Speaker What you're missing out on here is a common-sense approach. Shorter is indeed better, unless you're trying to use wires as non-adjustable tone controls, in which case verrrry long is better. Now, the shortest distance between two sets of binding p... | |
| How many bits? The statement that "One CD player has 24 bits, the other 18" makes no sense. Players do not "have" bits. The CDs have the bits, and they all have the same number--16 per sample, and 44,100 samples per second. No CD player in the world can give you... | |
| SACD or DVD Audio, which one is winning the race? The format that is winning is Redbook CD. Second place goes to 128kbps MP3/AAC. And the market has never been able to sustain more than two formats for long. | |
| $500 mini system suggestions, Bose need not apply For what it's worth Consumer Reports has recently rated both table radios and minisystems. I wouldn't trust their ratings of speaker systems, but for this kind of stuff they're more reliable (or maybe I'm less finicky).Among table radios, top soun... | |
| $500 mini system suggestions, Bose need not apply A lot of minisystems aren't really much more than gussied-up boom boxes. If you want a good, low-distortion system, here's what I'd recommend:Receiver: Sony STR-DE185 ($150) or Onkyo TX-8211 ($200)Speakers: PSB Alpha B ($250) or Paradigm Titan ($2... | |
| Does it matter what gauge power cord that you use? No, there is no technical reason why a heavier gauge power cord would provide any benefit whatsoever. | |
| Will hybrid SACDs play in a DVD-A player?? I wouldn't automatically count on it. As your own DVD player shows, some DVD players apparently cannot "see" the Redbook layer of a hybrid SACD. That's because an SACD is, in fact, a DVD disk, so the player naturally goes straight for the SACD lay... |