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| Music from hard drive better than CD? I'm still trying to figure out what to do here--I'm about 70% through ripping the 1000+ CDs in the Rock/Blues genre... I seriously encourage folks to think about standalone storage, since ultimately you will want to access your music from other pl... | |
| Pronto codes for dCS gear? Sadly, the Purcell and Delius manuals instruct you in no uncertain terms *not* to try to connect anything to the DB9 inputs... | |
| Panasonic Direct View CRT TV and PS2 With games, its not just the aspect ratio... I know my XBox going into my plasma will output 16:9 without stretching... A lot of new games have the ability to do 16:9 that way (as well as output 1080i or 720p). The other screen burn issue is the m... | |
| Analog to Digital converter recommendation Some further followup for those that may find this thread later... I bought a Ratshack A2D--I needed to convert the analog out of my CATV box to digital coax, since my system has only PCM digital in (and the CATV digital out is Dolby). The Ratshac... | |
| Panasonic Direct View CRT TV and PS2 If its a CRT, screen burn is unlikely. No screen burn with DLPs--really only an issue with plasmas and (?) LCD? Try the archives of the gaming forum over at http://www.avsforum.com. | |
| Help CATV Digital Audio Out... Ugh. I'll advise against my interim solution of running the analog outs through the ratshack a2d--the ratshack has some kind of low level cut-off set for people with bad hearing and kind of "thumps" as it thinks it gets a signal. Totally audible a... | |
| Help CATV Digital Audio Out... It outputs analog, there just isn't any analog input in my setup--the dCS gear is really an upsampler and a DAC w/a volume control, so no preamp.The problem is what to do with an MPEG-1 stream, when all I really have is a PCM input... | |
| Help CATV Digital Audio Out... I've now learned, I think, that the problem is that the 3250 outputs PCM when "Other" is selected, but the 8000 outputs MPEG-1 when "Other" is selected. At least, that is if I read the Scientific Atlanta website right. What the $#&%^! is MPEG-... | |
| Archiving CDs If you have a Windows system, I would recommend Exact Audio Copy (EAC). Its shareware and is, to my knowledge, the only program that will do bit-for-bit copies of CDs to your hard drive. You should not lose any data that way. You can then reburn t... | |
| hd tuner/hd-dvd player If you are interested, there are threads on AVSForum where this is being tracked. Last time I checked, there were still two potential competing standards, and I didn't think that any of the DVD Player mfrs were putting either format in their machi... | |
| hd tuner/hd-dvd player There are no HD DVDs yet. Some players will upscale to HD resolutions, but DVDs are encoded at 480i or 480p and there is no standard for HD-DVD source material. | |
| Scratched CD Repair Recommendation Might try simply ripping the CD using EAC to get a bit-perfect copy and then writing it at 1X using a CDR. I gather there are those that believe, using this method, you can get copies that may outperform originals. | |
| musical fidelity/conrad johnson - chan separation dBs are ratios--I am presuming that means for a signal applied to the right channel, you will get that signal on the left channel at 85 dB below the level of the right channel. Since 3dB=double, the level of the undesired signal on one channel wou... | |
| Ditch HT? Upgrade help please... Thanks all, I think come January, I'll probably ditch the Casablanca, the extra ARC VT-50, and the rears. I'm now interested enough in the dCS products to be thinking the Purcell/Delius combo will be the fit between the digital sources and my tube... | |
| Power me Up By "running out of power" do you really mean "power"? If you do, I can't see how anything short of an energy storage system will work for you... According to my HS physics, P=IV, so if you use some device to compensate for a voltage (V) drop, you ... |