johnnyb53
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| HDMI 1.3 Audio Signal - Good Enough, or no? When Wes Philips (of Stereophile) watched a demo of an HD DVD with Dolby TrueHD soundtrack transmitted over HDMI 1.3 to a new Onkyo RECEIVER, he said it was the best surround sound he had ever heard. YMMV, I suppose.OTOH, you may get pretty close ... | |
| How did you get into vinyl? How did I get into vinyl? Because our 78s were wearing out and all the new releases were coming out on LPs. We had two 78 rpm changers (a console and a tabletop model) in the house. Around 1960 my dad finally broke down and bought an RcA portable ... | |
| mcintosh MT10 turntable good or not. 01-18-08: BeerdraftThats awsome Johnnyb53, where do you get your LP's? Most of them are from thrift shops and the dollar bins at used record stores. For titles that are important to me, I got a few from eBay in the $5-15 range, and I bought a few ... | |
| mcintosh MT10 turntable good or not. 01-17-08: BeerdraftThanks Swampwalker, I actally went crazy trying to get better sound now from the CD player and bought the classe cdp202 today. This table is both a blessing and a bad thing being it made me want a better cd player as I won't eve... | |
| McIntosh MT-10 Turntable -- thoughts/expectations 01-16-08: BeerdraftI can't imagine getting a better sound than this table is providing. Its made me realize I need to improve my other source component which I didn't think was that important until now. I will be looking for new cd and sacd player... | |
| mcintosh MT10 turntable good or not. Cables have 3 basic specifications--resistance, inductance, and capacitance, or R-L-C. Capacitance is measured in farads, or in the case of interconnects, picoFarads (pF). High capacitance rolls off the treble and slows down the rise time. The sig... | |
| Best Ceiling Speakers? Instead of putting the L-C-Rs in the ceiling (which I think would create onscreen localization problems), how about the very unobtrusive Mirage Unitheater? It would only need about 6" between the bottom of your Sony and the top of the fireplace ma... | |
| Warner and Blu ray? 01-08-08: Jamesw20What gives with beating up on Sony?? They took the punches with Betamax, which WAS a superior product to VHS. Now they have another likely superior product but are marketing it effeciently. I have, and have had many Sony products... | |
| Review: Goldring Electra Cartridge I'm really curious how you would compare this cartridge to the same-price Sumiko Pearl, which you also reviewed. | |
| Warner and Blu ray? I can't speak for that Pioneer, but when my 720p-native LCD RP gets a 1080p signal, it doesn't acknowledge it. It will transfer, upconvert, or downconvert (as the case may be) 480i, 480p, 720p, or 1080i. Feed it 1080p and it simply won't show anyt... | |
| two svs 16-46 or one mirage bps 400? If you're anything like me, you're probably very used to the Mirage sound. I've had my M5si's for 11 years with no end in sight. The OM200 blended seamlesslessly and was instrumental in turning what was originally a near-full-range 2-channel syste... | |
| two svs 16-46 or one mirage bps 400? I wish I could help you. I also have Mirage M5si fronts in my 7.1 HT rig. My subwoofer is a later-generation OM-200, which sits about midway between a BPS 150i and the BPS 400i (it's 2x8 cones driven by a 200w/800w peak amp). One thing I like abou... | |
| Warner and Blu ray? 01-06-08: AudiotombI'm happy to see this resolving to one format (although it hurts for those who recently bought HD DVD.I'm sad to see it end this way (I consider the Warner announcement to be the death-knell for HD DVD), but not because I bought... | |
| rear surround speaker About those Mirage-licensed Omnisat knock-offs: for the money, they'd be a good value and probably are excellent computer speakers. But for home theater, you might want to consider this: These licensed speakers are nowhere near the same performanc... | |
| philips 963sa player Oh, BTW, your IEC socket isn't "missing" the ground pin; that's just the way the unit is built and shipped, with an IEC-compatible 2-pin cord. The (now discontinued) Outlaw 950 Pre/Pro was the same way. |