hudsonhawk
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| Help me select a new remote preamp on a budget That PS Audio looks great and much more in my price range than the GCP. Sadly I just realized that the BAT is too wide for my rack. Its a Sonus rack that happens to be exactly 19" wide, so fatties like the BAT stuff or the McCormack I just bought ... | |
| Help me select a new remote preamp on a budget Great suggestions all.I was just looking at a BAT and trying to decide if I (ok, if the wife) could live without the Harmony selecting the input for me... I sometimes wish I'd gotten a BAT VK-200 instead of the McCormack - an all BAT system for un... | |
| Are planar speakers less prone to room interaction Thanks for the interesting ideas. I like the idea of the Maggie 1.6's, though my main concern is that I can only move them out 3.5 feet or so from the wall. Hopefully that would be enough.One thing I like about the Maggies is that there are matchi... | |
| Are planar speakers less prone to room interaction Thanks all for your fantastic and detailed responses.Jwpstayman: It's more the asymmetry that is disturbing to the ear. Immediately to the left of the listener's location you have the windows, whereas to the right you have the empty space where th... | |
| Blu Ray connectability HDMI / Component You can still get an HD picture out of component, but there's the risk that at some point in the future, movie studios might start enforcing the ICT, which is a silly anti-piracy measure limiting output over component to 960x540, basically an EDTV... | |
| Digital downloads better than redbook audio? Sorry, but the public's standards are moving in the opposite direction. Look at the quality of your average stereo in the 70's and 80's versus now - more and more people are using $100 iPod docks as their primary stereos, or computer speakers, or ... | |
| OPPO vs BR HD? Tiger, what's the music format you're talking about? | |
| Your thoughts on preamp/processors It is possible to add delay to switching the input in Harmony's software; poke around and you'll find the option eventually. | |
| New Processors passing HD Sound? Bluray/HD-DVD , does one or more of these new HD audios get associated with a particular video type or are they universal ? Both support Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD lossless. They each have different requirements on how the players handle them though ... | |
| New Processors passing HD Sound? My guess is that they were talking about the Toslink / Coax out, not the 6 channel discrete output.6 channel discrete output will pass the lossless audio encoded on some Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs; because of bandwidth issues, Toslink and Coax can o... | |
| New Processors passing HD Sound? I'm not sure I follow what you're hearing from these engineer-types. The 6-channel discrete out should be just as lossless as the HDMI, with the only difference being that it's being done at the player instead of the processor (after being transco... | |
| HDMI to DVI adapter? Here's a good explanation of how these colorspace issues crop up when going HDMI -> DVI:http://archive2.avsforum.com/avs-vb/archive/index.php/t-486428.html | |
| HDMI to DVI adapter? Rreckstad, Sorry I missed your reply.Changing the output resolution didn't seem to help the issue. My understanding is that the Denon 1920 that I use has only outputs at the extended colorspace supported by HDMI, and doesn't support DVI's slightly... | |
| HDMI to DVI adapter? The only issue you might run into is color space. DVI has a slightly smaller color space than HDMI, so with certain combinations of players and TV's you might run into black level clipping issues (it'll appear as black blocks during dark parts of ... | |
| dvd audio any good disc out there The Doors "Perception" boxed set, and the Talking Heads "Brick" boxed set should both be available at any local BB or CC, and are both fantastic.Beyond that, there's lots of good stuff available - though a lot of it (The Who's Tommy, Beck Sea Chan... |