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| 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... | |
| 2 channel priority in HT Processor...who's is best Loren, I recommend you try Evolution Audio & Video in Agoura Hills. Also there's a well known dealer off Topanga Canyon Road just north of 101, but I can't recall the name. If you cal E A&V, I'm sure they'll tell you the name. I think Kal ... | |
| Processor upgrade from Integra 9.8? The Oppo 93 & 95 offer either DSD or LPCM output for SACDs, both at 88.2 kHz. Presumably LPCM provides bass management, but my Cary 11a treats 88.2 kHz as DSD even if the output is LPCM, and provides no bass management. Does the Integra 80.3 d... | |
| Wilson Sophia vs Aerial 7/9 I suspect you're talking very different costs from a pair of Aerial 7bs at under $2K, a pair of Sophia 1s or 2s in the $5-6K range, to a pair of 7Ts in the $10K range.db | |
| Blu ray upgrade? If you insist on using analog input, then you should spend the extra $500 to buy the Oppo 95 rather than the 93. A smarter bet might be to use that extra $500 toward a new receiver that does process the lossless codecs.db | |
| Stereo Imaging Although most of my recent SACDs are 5.0, and I play them as such, my own experience is that the forward facing soundstage Kiwi2 writes about can be generated by a pair of speakers with a stereo source. The ability to generate a strong centered im... |