jeffreybehr
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| difference between Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1? Both are lossy compression systems for 5.1-channel digital data streams. DTS compresses less and retains more of the original info, so generally sounds better.. | |
| Tube Preamps under $1000 used Did you change your mind on the content of your note AFTER writing the header?A CD player is an all-in-one. It contains both a physical transport for the disc and the laser system but also the digital-to-analog converter, or DAC. A transport conta... | |
| Thoughts on Quad 989 amp selection? My 'Quad' room is 19x21' with a ceiling that rises from 6-1/2' to 12'. I listen to large-scale classical and film music and movies too, as the 989s are the LRs, but not nearly as loudly as I hear some of my friends play their audio systems. I hear... | |
| Audioquest Anaconda vs Panther, Cheetah Grisslehamn, if you're looking for interconnects to be filters to change some characteristic of your system, I think you're looking in the wrong place. Cables are designed to be and supposed to be tonally neutral.Forwardness comes from slightly mo... | |
| Audiogon "SACD's TO DIE FOR" list Buy the current issue of 'The Absolute Sound'. HP lists his 'Super SACDs' for the 1st time. I had some (and have ordered more) and agree with his assessments.One I can think of quickly is the Dvorak symphonies #8 and 9, Ivan Fisher and the Budapes... | |
| Speaker cable upgrade please help........ I suggest the KE-6; it has plenty of material in it for a relatively-high-sensitivity speaker.Do try to listen to some before you have to buy it. Good luck and pls share with us what you end up with.BTW where are you?. | |
| Speaker cable upgrade please help........ As you say, there are indeed 2 schools of thought of this.I'm 61 years old and have lost a substantial measurable amount of my hearing. I've called myself more of a tin-eared audiofool than a golden-eared audiofile. But allow me to digress...In on... | |
| Universal Players that do not convert DSD to PCM? Seantaylor99: "Aren't ALL digitally recorded SACDs originally recorded in PCM then converted to DSD during mastering? Do any digital multitrack recorders and mixers run natively in DSD? I thought they all ran 24/192 (or 96kHz) PCM.The DVDA standar... | |
| Mixing silver IC with silver/copper speaker cable? I too run a combination of both, in my case copper IC and silver speaker. It's a great combination IMO.I do NOT believe in the theory that your system is only as good or as resolving as its weakest link. I believe that EVERY piece in your and my a... | |
| replacing tubes, AR sp6A preamp Lucky3: "...because I am using only a CD player as a source in my preamp (AR SP6A), the phono stage slots ( I think V1,2) and the cathode following tubes, V3 and V6, can have any tube as long as they draw current, and I can experiment with the V4 ... | |
| Vandersteen Quattro Well, I was heading in the right direction, and S, you didn't contradict me. As I said, I'm willing to read and learn.:-)Your comment about Quad's solution must be why my 989s sound so GREAT.Thx.. | |
| Vandersteen Quattro Jburidan, I believe that phase-aligned and time-aligned are the same thing. A system can't have the wavefront created by all its drivers be in time alignment unless all the drivers (and crossover, of course) are phase-aligned.I could be wrong and ... | |
| replacing tubes, AR sp6A preamp I had a -6B a LONG time ago. The first tube in the fono stage (V1?) will be the best one graded by noise and microphonics, then probably V2, then V4, then V5. The cathode followers (V3 and 6) are the least-important tubes in the preamp. If I were ... | |
| bridging a b&k st202 to mono Wouldn't you know...can't find in now. Will post it when I find it.. | |
| multi channel vs. 2 channel for movies The correct and universal answer is 'it depends'...on everything. Some multichannel amps such as the Proceed BPA and HPA series use separate power transformers per channel so they're essentially triple-mono amps sharing only the chassis and 120VAC... |