hudsonhawk
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| Just Curious...... They're still doing some pretty interesting things, particularly in mobile audio. Their DVD touchscreen navigation head units are considered to be among the best on the market, and they make a portable digital audio player that's genuinely probabl... | |
| Wireless and USB dacs I think you're confused.I believe the USB on your Bel Canto is an input. You can hook a computer up to the Bel Canto and use it to output audio from your computer.You can't use it to send a digital audio signal elsewhere. | |
| HD ready madness Agreed with others, you don't really need it. And you won't be able to find it anyway - the DVD spec forbids players from outputting an upscaled signal using anything other than VGA, DVI, or HDMI. If your TV lacks those inputs, then just spend the... | |
| Arcam Alpha 9 phono stage question Thanks guys.I ordered the phono board yesterday and look forward to hearing it (and getting rid of another component - consolidation is good!) | |
| HDMI to DVI Cable I should mention that it might not be a problem depending on how DVI-friendly your source device is. Some of them have a "DVI" mode where it switches the color palette to match that of DVI. It just happens that my Denon universal player has no suc... | |
| HDMI to DVI Cable If your display device is the one with the DVI input (i.e. you are going from an HDMI source to a DVI display) you may run into color space issues. I had this problem with my plasma using an upscaling DVD player.Basically, HDMI has just a tiny bit... | |
| Will an anti-jitter / upsampling device pass AC3? See, I was hoping it would *not* pass the 5.1 stream. Currently because of the crosstalk I have to turn the DAC off while watching movies since the 5.1 stream makes the DAC freak out.Sean's tip is a good idea, I'll try moving the inputs around but... | |
| Five Monoblocks vs. One 5-Channel Amp Seems like a silly concern, but having just switched from 5 monoblocks to a 5-channel amp, I've noticed that it sure is nice having 4 more outlets than I did before : ) | |
| Bi-amping with Audioquest cables I had a single biwire of Midnight II. I recently picked up a 2nd pair of Midnight II on eBay and switched to a double bi-wire... and the difference was huge. No competition at all. | |
| New Doors box set Yeah, it's a big problem on certain discs for people like me who have Dolby Digital but not 5-channel input. I'm usually a 2-channel DVD-audio listener but I sometimes like to check out the surround mixes.FYI, if you're a 2-channel DVD-audio guy l... | |
| X-Box 360 for Home Theatre? It does work relatively well as an upscaling DVD player (though due to licensing restrictions it only upscales through the VGA cable, not through the component cables). Picture quality is definitely acceptible.The picture quality when HD-DVD playe... | |
| New Doors box set Madhf,I'm guessing that you have a DVD-Audio player that you're using as a regular DVD player.DVD-audio players can't access the standard DVD content (the Dolby Digital and DTS mixes) on a DVD-Audio disc.I'm not sure why it is, but it's a real pai... | |
| Inexpensive DVD deck with good sound? I use a combination of the Denon 1920 and a Lite Dac-AH. The combo should cost you around $400 give or take.I use the coax out to the Dac-AH for redbook, the Denon's internal dacs for SACD and DVD-Audio, and toslink out to my preamp for home theat... | |
| non over sampling DAC better than 24/96 or192 DAC? I think it also depends on what you'll be listening to. I had the opportunity compare the Lite Dac-AH to their own solid-state oversampling Dac (the Dac-38). The conclusion I came to is that the Dac-Ah did some things better (I don't think I've ev... | |
| Comments on the Olive Opus CD Player With anything that requires an ethernet connection, you can get a wireless bridge that will let you use it wirelessly. They sell them for the original Xbox, but there wouldn't be anything stopping you from using one with a music server. |