jylee
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| Best 2 channel CD/SACD player $2000 used? According to limited number of reviews, it does look like Sony XA-5400ES may be the holy grail of moderately priced SACD player. They are sold out in many online retailers. I have one on order, and probably receive it in a week or so. I'll find ou... | |
| DCDi vs. HDMI Component vs. HDMI ... at the same resolution things shouldn't be any different, apart from the cabling itself.There is huge advantage using HDMI if the both end of devices are capable of handling digital signals. All the modern displays such as L... | |
| Conrad Johnson vs Audio Research vs BAT vs Cary My CJ Premier 16LS2 doesn't sound overly warm at all. When I first got this preamp my reaction was "it is not warm enough!" Everyone described CJ to be overly warm, but not in my system and to my ears. It's just slightly warmer but much smoother t... | |
| DCDi vs. HDMI Mantaraydesign, if you are concerned about DVD picture quality as indicated by the original post, you are probably better off getting one of the Oppo's, which is cheaper and probably better in terms of picture quality. Bob, let me dodge the questi... | |
| DCDi vs. HDMI Faroudja DCDi is de-interlacing technology. HDMI is type of connection between display and TV. DCDi and HDMI almost always go together.Perhaps more interesting comparison would be DCDi vs Anchor Bay VRS technology. DCDi was highly touted in 90's a... | |
| SACD sounds worse or CD sounds better or ....? Did the upgrade involve preamp? I just remembered that when I got a tubed preamp the CD sound from Unidisk improved quite a bit. Digital glare and digititis almost disappeared. SACD still sounded good, but there was no digititis on SACD to begin w... | |
| SACD sounds worse or CD sounds better or ....? I can't explain why the delta between CD and SACD changed, but when I owned PL-1A I had similar feeling. SACD through PL-1A didn't sound much better than CD. On a side note, I'm pretty convinced that no universal player truly excels in all formats... | |
| Sony Playstation 1 for a CD player ??? My PS1 also has soundstage tilted slightly to the left. I don't notice in many recordings, but with some recordings I notice slight shift. Not bothersome to me, but it could be to others. | |
| $5000 universal player ... am I a fool ? So you have B&K AVR and used to own Theta Pro Gen 3a. I still don't get what "CDP I have owned up to about $7000" that Lexicon betters. I'm glad to hear you like your new DVD player, but let's keep it in the perspective. Don't get me wrong. I'... | |
| Levinson 334 caps My 335 with fairly late serial number had the capacitor problems. | |
| $5000 universal player ... am I a fool ? SQ is as good as any CDP I have owned up to about $7000.Can you list some of those CDPs and some comparison of SQ? | |
| Your input please: Using sub on 2 channel amp REL, Velodyne, JL Audio are all excellent choice for musical subwoofers. I have 15 x 20 room with Focal Electra fronts that can go down to 30Hz. The bass response is already pretty good. But when I added DD12 to the system, the bass response went ... | |
| High Current Monoblocks More practical implication of high current amp is that they can deliver needed power in difficult lower impedance load. Ohm's law says when the load impedance goes down by 1/2 (say from 8 Ohm to 4 Ohm), it requires twice as much current in order t... | |
| Center Channel Upgrade Question I am also using CC800V for the center channel with Electra 1037BE for the fronts. Despite the CC800V's budget price and slight mismatching of drivers the combination sounds very coherent. For me CC1000BE is probably a better match but at much high... | |
| Levinson 3XX Amplifier Repairs Just think of the Murphy's Law."Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."Mine went wrong a couple of weeks ago. Ugh. |