jdaniel18ee
Responses from jdaniel18ee
| 2 ch. or 5.1 amp for HT mostly for music I bought an HK a/v 230 to pre out into my 2chan main and then amplify just some extra rears for enjoyment with movies and SACDs. Pre-outing into my main cause a hum which I could not get rid of. I ended up bi-amping--main amp powers L/R front dire... | |
| SACD - Dying already? Well, my final word, (which will be a relief to many of you who don't want to believe there's a prettier woman on the block than the one you have in your Redbook CD player and collection), and this is what I've been saying all along. It doesn't ma... | |
| SACD - Dying already? Rex: EMI doesn't manufacture SACDs...yet. They are looking into it. Again, what the Majors do doesn't matter. SACD is a recording technology that is *portable,* If you want to record something in DSD, the service is now offered by many recording c... | |
| SACD - Dying already? It doesn't matter whether or not your friends have heard of hi-rez. Let's play a game to show how silly this is. "My friends have never heard of Cardas Cable." "My friends have never heard of Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs." My friends have never hear... | |
| SACD - Dying already? (1)You suggest that SACD is dying because they don't sell in local record shops, without realizing that record stores are dying both because of competition from the net and mega-stores.(BTW, I socialize where all the action is, not in places where... | |
| SACD - Dying already? Tony writes:DVD is the new mass media, witnessed by the unprecedented sales of DVD players since their introduction, not SACD. DVD-A is the next logical step, but Sony had to try to keep their market share and tried to get a leg up on the competit... | |
| SACD - Dying already? Just a correction to my above posting: That was "3 new SACD releases a *month,*" not 3 new SACD releases a year, LOL. Yes, one cannot judge a product anymore by how well it sells in "local" stores; not with the internet around. (Plus Tower is too ... | |
| SACD - Dying already? Why should "local stores" expect to sell SACDS? One can get them more inexpensively on the 'net and if you buy from Amazon UK, you can get them months earlier than their US release. Next. Dying already? Some of you guys have short memories: Three ... | |
| 6 weeks with my Marantz SA-14 v.2 SACD/CD player I'm not familiar with the original version, but many of you owners seemed so happy with this wallflower player I went for the current model. The rest of my system: Musical Fidelity a308 integrated amp, Vandersteen 3a sigs, and Cardas Neutral refer... | |
| Hi-Rez downgraded by DSP anxiety I think I've decided to go with the Arcam AVR 200, as it keeps the hi-rez analog signal intact, and the bass management will allow me to send all the bass to the L/R mains, which will be plugged into my 2-channel amp, where my speakers and sub can... | |
| Preserving high-end L and R while going surround Thank you for your sobering responses. I guess it would be best to just put together a separate surround sound from scratch. I'm thinking of the Definitive Technology Mythos series for speakers, with my Vandersteen sub. The Gramophone, a classical... | |
| High-end Universal...Why? ? I believe there *are* many people who care about sound. To say otherwise is specious; otherwise why would anyone every buy a stereo system over $100? The general public will catch on. Like any company trying to recoup its R&D, Sony and Co is a... | |
| hi-end universal players? I had the same concerns and so went with the Marantz SA-14 ver. 2 because not only is it not cluttered with video circuitry, it's only 2 channel, which avoids more clutter. That said, the multi-channel players I've heard on even modest players and... | |
| Vandersteen speakers set up Newbie needs help Plea I own the Vandy 3a sigs. The 1C's are good, but since you listen to a lot of Classical I would definitely look for the *3-way* 2C's (in whatever incarnation), used or new--they sound much larger. The Vandy's take a lot of power to run; I'm sure yo... | |
| Coping in an Age of Uncertainty Don't forget that you can buy a hybrid that plays both until SACD replaces the CD completely. The Marantz SA-14 version 1 or 2 gives very good 16-bit playback and the SACD section is astonishing. Clearly better. If you are worried about the availa... |