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| Sony KD-36XS955 CRT -vs- Sony KDS-R60XBR1 SXRD? I have a Sony 36 XBR and have been looking longingly at Sony's 60 SXRD RP. But then I saw a demo of a well set up Sony SXRD FP projecting onto a 110" Stewart Greyhawk screen -- the dealer said a FireHawk would be even better, but they already had ... | |
| Blu Ray over/under $ Blu Ray is beginning to look real. That Pioneer Elite looks to be a nicely designed unit that I would be happy to have in my rack. Think I'll hold off on buying a 60" Sony SXRD until they add a 1080p input.Thanks for the photos, Ears.db | |
| Proceed AMP5 in protective mode Lest one think Proceed stuff is troublesome, I have owned a PAV, Amp 2, and Amp 3 for years without incident. Several years ago I added a newer PAV and its PDSD, and these units have also been trouble free. Once, I dropped the Amp3 when pulling it... | |
| Is KEF no longer relevant? My point, Studioray, was perhaps a bit off the mark. If you can find a pair of 104/2s, they can represent excellent value. I paid under $1500, including cost of shipping cross country from Manhatten to Santa Barbara. I listen to lots of speakers, ... | |
| Is KEF no longer relevant? I have a pair of bi-wired KEF Reference 104/2s that I am very please with. I listened to the "Three Blind Mice" XRCD24 disc on my KEFs, then 10 minutes later to the disc on a pair of Wilson Sophias, then 15 minutes later again on my KEFs. I like t... | |
| Is Smoking Really That Bad For Audio Equipment? It's been many years since I was involved with this area as a science, but IIRC, nicotine is bad for that most important piece of audio equipment, the chochlea, aka inner ear, that piece of equipment that transduces the fluid dynamic movement of t... | |
| Sony scd xa777es vs scd777es Chuck,What modders can do is use high-end parts that are not cost effective for even fairly expensive production units, such as the SCD-1. But I'm pretty sure the engineers at Sony know a lot more about circuit design than whoever is modding your ... | |
| levinson vs proceed I've owned an Amp 2 and Amp 3 for about 15 years, and they have been in continual use without any problems, first driving KEF 102/2s and 100 C, now driving a pair of KEF 104/2s, a pair of 102/2s, and a 200 C. They're absoletely silent absent signa... | |
| Wich high end CD palyer? Ccereda,I'm surprised that if you can afford -- not just pay for -- a $14K CD player you don't just fly to NYC and buy whatever you want. Why limit yourself to european avaiability? I assume you're independently wealthy with no need to work, so ta... | |
| Sony KD-34XBR960 or Sony KDS-R50XBR1? I bought my Sony 36 XBR before Sony introduced the 34 wide screen. The picture is one of the best I've seen. The grey scale when watching something like Casablanca is amazing in its gradations from white to really black. We watch CSI: Miami just b... | |
| Future of this hobby? I think Sugarbrie's post points to the problem. Tubes and vinyl and all the mystical pretentions to the holy grail fail to impress a generation that sees the rewards of digital technology in their lives. I have known people who insist good writing... | |
| Plasma 42 inch .... We watch CSI: Miami in HDTV mainly for the panoramic shots. The surround sound is another treat. I watched the Rose Parade in TiVo's first stage fast forward mode. That eliminated the inane chatter; the DirectTV CBS HDTV feed from KTLA was commerc... | |
| Plasma 42 inch .... Drubin,The DirectTV HR 10-250 is a great HDTV/TiVo unit with HDMI and component video outputs if you could consider switching to satellite from cable. It can record 2 channels simultaneously. We too found that TiVo was more important to us that HD... | |
| Transistor Research Labs ST-225 Integrated amp I spent an afternoon listening to Tony's TRL 225. It seems considerably more transparent than his Cary, with a more defined soundstage. I was impressed. I had a '70 911T from '71 to '94 and put nearly 100 K miles on it. I shifted by the tach. I mu... | |
| tube watts vs solid state watts I doubt your presentations were really peer reviewed, Larry. Abstracts usually are submitted to a program chairman who chooses among the submissions for inclusion in the various sessions in the chairman's area of expertise, but this is not the sam... |