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| What high-end multichannel SACD players are there? The reason for my question, Kal, is that I have an Oppo BDP-93 connected to my Cary 11a via HDMI, and have been thinking about moving my Sony XA5400ES back into the media room cabinet as well, connecting it to the Cary via analog XLR. Not sure wha... | |
| What high-end multichannel SACD players are there? Kal:Edorr wrote, "If you do not need the Blu Ray, you can get a Sony XA5400. According to Kal marginally better than the Oppo on HDMI out."I recalled your comment being the Oppo 95 HDMI was marginally better than the Sony XA5400. Did I recall inco... | |
| Anthem AVM/20 upgrade to Integra or Marantz?? Kal's point is just as true with new, perhaps even more so because of depreciation. Except for added complication, using a reasonably priced processor in pass-through mode with your favorite preamp seems a good way to go. What's thought to be the ... | |
| What did you own in the 60's? By mid-60s I had an AR table with a Shure V-15 Mk II cartridge, a Marantz Model 18 receiver, and a pair of AR3a speakers. The receiver cost an entire month of post-doc stipend. It was a pretty good sounding setup. I still have all of the above com... | |
| Ground loop hum Chad, I meant both. You're very free with your advice/opinions, some of which seem good, some less so. Of course, opinions are what they are; advice can be misleading. I've been playing with audio for over 60 years, my doctoral and post-doctoral w... | |
| Ground loop hum Chad,I often disagree with your advice, but I think you may have hit the nail on the head this time. Since DirecTV installed Whole Home, connecting the receivers to our LAN, a noticeable hum was introduced to what had been a silent system. I thoug... | |
| Best 2 Channel SACD with Analog Outs As I read OP's post he prefers HDMI to the Onkyo AVR to analog to the Ayre preamp regardless of source. As I understand it, with HDMI, the Onkyo DACs are invoked but the source may or may not do some processing (e.g. converting DSD to LPCM); with ... | |
| solid state amp for merlin tsm's ? Silly me. I was thinking of replacing my beloved but nearly 30 year old pair of KEF Reference 104/2s with a pair of TSM MMi, to be driven by my Proceed Amp 3 or HPA-3. The last time I balanced tubes was when I was a grad student working in a psych... | |
| Where does the money go in a Blu Ray player? I really don't understand the hand wringing when you can buy an Oppo BDP-93 for $500 or a BDP-95 for $1000 if you need analog audio. I'd guess you'd be unable to realize any improvement in video regardless of what you pay.db | |
| Cary 11a vs Anthem D2 Programmergeek,The problem you report is not endemic to the Cary 11a. I've never experienced it, and my 11a is used daily.db | |
| Anthem AVM/20 upgrade to Integra or Marantz?? Yesterday I auditioned a Marantz AV7005 with the aim of replacing my Cary 11a, Velodyne SMS-1, and DVDO Edge with a single processor. I took several discs, then played the discs again when I returned home about a half hour later. In every case I p... | |
| 2 channel priority in HT Processor...who's is best Edorr, KR4, and SoixI'm thinking of the solution suggested by Edorr and Soix, and from time to time by Kal. If the XLR output of a SACD player were passed through a preamp and input via analog XLR to an Integra would the sound I hear be that of th... | |
| Cary 11a vs Anthem D2 Kal,If the inability to distinguish between DSD and LPCM from an Oppo 93/95 is not endemic because both are 88.2 kHz, I don't understand why Cary can't provide a fix. To quote an old calculus book, "What one fool can do, another fool can do."db | |
| Processor upgrade from Integra 9.8? Mfs, that's a question of interest to me as well. Kal seems to have dropped this thread or he is preoccupied. An 80.2/3 would simplify my setup. I supplement a Cary 11a with a DVDO Edge for video processing and a Velodyne SMS-1 for bass managing a... | |
| Processor upgrade from Integra 9.8? Oppo has been very helpful. To achieve bass management playing SACDs through my Cary 11a, I need to use analog output and set the speakers to small in the Oppo setup menu. In that configuration, the Oppo can provide bass management.I think, but am... |