cundare2
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| Marantz AV7705 AV Receiver: HDMI out to external DAC OK, solved the problem. Save for future reference. Stereo sources go directly to the T+A amp, which drives the main speakers and the wireless input of the sub (which is processed by the sub’s internal crossover). No home theater components in the... | |
| Favorite moment with music in your car. Sorry, not in a car, not even involving a stereo. But I'm posting anyway. My remember-forever moment came at a live listening experience. The Saratoga Performing Arts Center hosted the Philadelphia Orchestra every summer when I was younger and o... | |
| Duplicate room correction No, this isn’t in relation to my "critical" stereo system. I’m talking here about my home theater, which is built around a higher-end Marantz AVR that uses the Audessey room-correction technology. Not exactly Dirac or Anthem, but I’m still giving ... | |
| Duplicate room correction Thanks, Erik. What you say makes sense. In fact, I've been trying for some time to determine just which parameters the amp's embedded room-correction SW actually adjusts. | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? @lewm You bring up a good point about the Audioquest electronic cleaner. This topic is actually worthy of a slightly deeper exploration: - With a few exceptions, the Audioquest, Audio-Technica, Flux, & similar products are marketed as "electr... | |
| Marantz SA10 sacd player Waitaminnit -- Was it Reavon? Functionality & pricing look a lot like Oppo's. https://reavon.store/en/ | |
| PS Audio Power regenerator @tablejockey "Audio forum wisdom says plug your amp into the wall. ... Stereophile seemed to agree. https://www.stereophile.com/content/ps-audio-power-plant-premier-ac-regenerator-page-2 Now I’m confused. That article seems to say the e... | |
| Marantz SA10 sacd player Sony still makes a "universal" BD/SACD/CD/DVD player that sells on Amazon in the $300-350 range. 4K UHD, began shipping 2019. Model UBP-X800M2 Related question: During the pandemic, Sound+Vision gave praise several times to a new company that ... | |
| Looking for a WiFi interface Follow-up: after a few days of extensive use, the SVS unit still works great. No latency issues, no drop-outs, although I did lose some volume. Nice little product. | |
| Marantz AV7705 AV Receiver: HDMI out to external DAC @erik_squires Yeah, you’re right that a 5.1->2.0 mixdown wouldn’t do the job. But as mentioned above, even the Theta board wouldn’t get me past the real sticking point: A digital input can’t be configured for HT Bypass. My mistake was not think... | |
| Marantz AV7705 AV Receiver: HDMI out to external DAC OK, wait, wait. I get it. A digital HT bypass could work ONLY IF the sending unit could control the volume of the digital signal before it hit the DAC in the receiving component. But it's not possible to control the volume level of an encoded di... | |
| Marantz AV7705 AV Receiver: HDMI out to external DAC For once, I agree with @soix. Jeez, driving the front channels with the T+A's preamp & DAC would CERTAINLY make a difference. In fact, when the T+A arrived last week, I did a direct comparison, with hirez SACD stereo sources, running the Opp... | |
| Can an unbalanced-to-balanced adaptor damage an amplifier? FINAL RESOLUTION I plugged in the headphones with the Amazon adaptor & they work fine. The T+A hasn’t been reviewed yet, but I can confirm that it drives my 22-ohm Audeze phones quite nicely. Can’t comment on SQ b/c nothing is broken in yet, ... | |
| T+A's new R 2500 R integrated amp Actually, Ayre was high on my list when I first started my search. Those X and R series models, and especially the $12K EX-8 2.0 integrated, were almost a slam dunk for me. Unfortunately, it seems that Ayre is having some serious internal issues... | |
| Marantz AV7705 AV Receiver: HDMI out to external DAC @audiotroy I'm still not sure what you're trying to say: "get an integrated amplifier to power your mains then mains then by adding a Dac to the Marantz." Sending the AVR's digital output to the T+A is "adding a DAC to the Marantz," right? Or ... |