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| What's the best Sony CD/SACD player? Allen,My DVP-S9000ES had a bit of stridency. When it finally failed to play SACD discs reliably, I sent it to Sony Larado. According to their report, Sony overhauled it and brought it up to specs. Whatever they did, the stridency is gone and it is... | |
| Older Altec horn speakers Altec's claim to fame was their VOT speaker systems, aimed at auditorium use. We had several such units in our psychoacoutics lab, and I had one at home for a time. IIRC, the HF sectorial horn came in 2 sizes with 2 different drivers, one for 500 ... | |
| 1 Subwoofer or Are 2 Better?? I found the Harmon paper interesting, although I think there was little new that I didn't already know, but it is a reasoned explication. Bottom line is that one well placed sub, often corner placed, is usually all you need unless your room is ver... | |
| Velodyne's Dim View My experience with Velodyne couldn't be better. I had a bit of a problem with my HGS-15, and dropped it off in Morgan Hill while attending the Monterey vintage car week. I talked and exchanged emails with folks at Velodyne, and they couldn't have ... | |
| Blue Ray Concert discs What about jazz and chamber music?db | |
| Regular DVD on PS3? My answer is the the same as that of Jylee. I played the old Francesco Rossi DVD of Carmen on my PS3-80 recently, thinking it might look like crap projected on a 100" screen via HDMI, but was very pleasantly surprised. The projector is a Sony VPL-... | |
| Need advice on pre/pro - Rotel1098/Outlaw990/??? Thanks Marty,I was heading to Evolution AV Sunday afternoon, but have decided to go another day -- my Proceed PAV/PDSD sounds fine, and my Velodyne SMS-1 probably does the heavy lifting on room equalization below 80 Hz. I've always found EAV to be... | |
| Need advice on pre/pro - Rotel1098/Outlaw990/??? Tim,I have a Proceed PAV/PDSD pair that I use with a Proceed Amp 2 and an Amp 3. I am attracted to the idea of replacing the PDSD with an Integra 9.8 for its HDMI and Audessey, if I can bypass the Integra's processing for analog as the PSDS permit... | |
| How can a subwoofer expand the soundstage? Lewinskih01,If you can find an external crossover on Audiogon at a reasonable price, I'd give it a try. But if your B & Ws are down 3 dB at 38 Hz, they presumably start rolling off before that, and your REL could roll off before 50 Hz, so ther... | |
| Anyone getting Dolby Digital 5.1 on DirecTV? I too get 5.1 Dolby Digital from DirecTV using HDMI. You may need to go to the audio section of the setup menu and select it.db | |
| How can a subwoofer expand the soundstage? Horacio,Your observatons comport with my experience. I use KEF R104/2s with a Velodyne HGS-15. Crossover by the pre/pro is set at 80 Hz. The 104/2s sound fine full range by themselves, but I think they have a bit more transparency when relieved of... | |
| Sony SACD SCD-XA5400ES vs SCD-1 I thought I read that Kal Rubinson was going to be reviewing the XA5400ES in Stereophile.db | |
| positioning of a horn speaker I thought the attractiveness of horns disappeared with stereo, because corner placement extends the horn and few stereo setups lend themselves to dual corner placement.db | |
| KEF 200C Your post induced me to look at my 200C. The serial number also ends with B. Why worry about it? I've been using the 200C with my 104/2s and 102/2s for years without problem. I biwire all the speakers, so I don't recall the appearance or configura... | |
| top ten things you learned about HiFi on Agon I'd add misuse or confusion of words to Entrope's Items 8 & 9, "then" for "than" being perhaps the most common confusion in Audiogon posts. The posts of Eldartford and Markphd in this thread are particularly wise. I follow Glory's dictum, exce... |