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| MARK LEVINSON No. 40 PRO/PRE I have a Proceed PAV/PDSD pair in our living room with an Oppo 95 connected to the PDSD bypass. The PAV controls volume. The Oppo decodes lossless formats. For reasons I don't understand, I prefer the sound of this setup to having the output from ... | |
| Any reason to even buy a new PJ at this juncture?? I'm still pleased with my old Sony VW VPL VW-50 projecting onto a 100" screen, but I assume brightness and contrast is likely to have improved on newer models.db | |
| Using a RS SPL meter I think the microphone is designed to be pointed up rather than directed at the sound source. Slow trajectory is commonly used to get a steadier reading. Measurement with sine waves might be fraught with artifacts.db | |
| MARK LEVINSON No. 40 PRO/PRE An alternate in the face of developing processor technology is to use a high-quality analog stereo preamp for front LR and bypass the other channels to a processor. An Oppo 105 does this nicely. In addition to playing almost any kind of disc, it p... | |
| mid-rang pre amp I assumed the cable box has HDMI output that would go to the rear HDMI input of the Oppo 105. The other two units would use standard digital AV connections. In our setup HDMI output from a DirecTV HD-DVR goes to the 105, and uses the Oppo's superi... | |
| mid-rang pre amp Runnin's first post re input restriction seems misguided. The 105 has two digital audio inputs, an HDMI input in the rear for cable and it would make Sleepie's Blu-Ray player redundant. I've never seen an X-Box, so i don't know if its output is di... | |
| mid-rang pre amp You don't tell us what sources you want to use with a preamp, but there is a strong contingent that favors an Oppo 105 that can play a wide variety of discs, provide excellent audio/video processing through its rear HDMI connection, process comput... | |
| AR 3 Speakers Onhyw61, the AR3a speakers have been sitting in my closet for years and are likely to remain there. I use the 400 watt/channel amps with a pair of KEF 107/2 mains and a pair of 102 surrounds, speakers much more efficient than the ARs. The danger y... | |
| AR 3 Speakers The relationship is power needed to achieve a given SPL, and it isn't usually very much for practical listening levels. What gives AR speakers their LF capability is the large excursion the diaphragm can make. I recall a debate between Paul Klipsc... | |
| AR 3 Speakers How silly the above two posts are. Of course, you don't slam speakers with the maximum power available. The speakers these amps are used with now are much more efficient than ARs.db | |
| AR 3 Speakers Stringreen, following your comment, I could try the AR3a speakers with the Proceed HPA-2 amp, 500 watts per channel into 4 ohms. I've heard them only with the Marantz Model 18, 40 watts per channel into 4 ohms. Might be an interesting experience. ... | |
| AR 3 Speakers My original pair of AR3a speakers are sitting on the floor of my closet. From time to time, I imagine having the Marantz 18 and AR table I used with them checked out to create a vintage setup, but I'm unlikely to do it. Nevertheless, I'll hang ont... | |
| Marantz AV7005 or Oppo 105 Yesterday I installed a Parasound Halo JC-2 analog stereo preamp in place of a Cary Cinema 11a. After a bit of adjusting to match the volume of the surrounds that go straight to the amps with that of the stereo that goes throughout he JC-2, I enjo... | |
| Marantz AV7005 or Oppo 105 I don't think you need to give up 2-channel analog if you use an Oppo 105. I'll be replacing a Cary Cinema 11a processor with a Parasound Halo JC-2 2-channel analog preamp. Stereo from the 105 will go through the JC-2, surround channels directly t... | |
| Anyone own the Darbee Darblet DVP 5000? When I was getting the message that my TV didn't have the required content protection needed to receive HBO and Showtime, one of the questions asked by the folks at AVS was if I had Darbee in the video chain. Has anyone had a problem sending the r... |