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| multichannel sacd Multichannel SACD is 5.1 by intention. Sony/Philips have specified it as 5.1 in order to keep compatability with home theater specs. This is obviously a business decision. Apart from algorithms like bass management that are tied to specific defini... | |
| BEETHOVEN'S LATE STRING QUARTETS I agree, as I usually do, with Detlof. I have the Alban Berg live and studio versions of the quartets, plus parts of almost all the other quartets listed. The Alban Berg has long been one of my favorite groups for their extraordinary ensemble, and... | |
| Pioneer DV47a It depends on the rest of your system, and what you're used to hearing. I have a DV47a for SACD and DVD-A, and can say that I am only too happy to shut it off and get back to my normal front end (Spectral), which is orders of magnitude more refine... | |
| Latest SACD News - Very Interesting. Stereophile seems to have fanned a few industry rumours into a small flame. Why would a major record company move to hi rez primarily to get around the copy protection problems in cd? Apart from the fact that anything can be copied in analog via ... | |
| H/T vrs Music speakers-Why the difference? Twl, I can almost agree with you (on the issue of selective design for different purposes). But the fact is that the great majority of people simply do not have the space or budget for 2 separate audio systems. I believe more and more that the onl... | |
| Additional upgrade on power cords needed? I have the top gun power block and several top gun and model 11 cords, and I disagree with several of the above posts. I don't like the combination of more top guns following the power block (which already has the filtering and cord that are in th... | |
| Eidolon, Amati Homage, or Watt? Good post Mike.On the subject of bringing speakers home for audition, there are very few dealers in my area that will allow this with large speakers anymore. And for those that do, you need to appear very serious, i.e. you will buy other speakers ... | |
| Room Treatments to Minimize Interactions I agree very much with ASC, though unless I'm mistaken, Chris has left and you may deal with someone else. I also have a room with openings into other rooms, and I find I have to treat selected surfaces in adjoining rooms too. ASC is not cheap but... | |
| Eidolon, Amati Homage, or Watt? Since the Dunlavys, Amatis, Watts, and Eidolons have different presentations, ranging from laid back musical (Amati, then Eidolon) to potentially detailed and agressive (Watts, depending on system), I would choose the speaker characteristics I wan... | |
| Avalon Sentinel So Linkster, has anyone actually HEARD the Eidolon Diamond yet, in comparison to either the Eidolon or Sentinel, and can anyone comment on the differences? Or are these discussions still just based on specs? | |
| New Digital Format Copy Protection on Digital Out. The issue for DVD-Audio is that the DVD Forum, which governs the disc format, requires that any digital high-rez output be encrypted and be sent over a secure physical interface (not SPDIF). The Forum is just now defining standards for the interfa... | |
| Best new 5 ch.SACD/ DVD-A/ DVD/ CD player? Sorry, Twl, you are wrong on this. The DV 47A does not convert SACD to PCM on output. Pioneer had so much negative response on their earlier players relative to this point that they specifically kept the Sony 'native' format. This has been confirm... | |
| Pioneer DV 47-A DVD-A output analogue only Another comment on Gjames post - Assuming I understand your post correctly, the thing to do is to use the Yamaha receiver for any AC3 or DTS streams on the disc, and use the player to play out the DVD-A signals. There will be no difference in res... | |
| Pioneer DV 47-A DVD-A output analogue only The DTS and AC3 data on the DVD disc are formatted under the DVD-Video spec, while MLP (and most hi-rez LPCM) are formatted under the DVD-Audio spec. Both specs (DVD-A and DVD-V) can be included on the same side of a DVD disc. If the Pioneer decla... | |
| MIT & Spectral -- but Which MIT? Dare I say that I second the opinions mentioned by jdwek and detlof, that is, that the current Spectral top of the line system is trickier to cable and treat for a/c than older Spectral. In particular, MIT's oracle series and new a/c cables may no... |